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Monitoring and Evaluation: A How-to Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizations
By Renee Kantelberg and Jo Kempon, on behalf of the Huairou Commission
The objectives of this handbook are to: provide an overview of some of the basic concepts and central issues in M&E; introduce an overall framework that will help grassroots women implement an M&E system appropriate to their context; and introduce a number of concepts and tools to help grassroots women engage in a practical approach […]
Community Mapping: A How-To Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizing
By Matt Wade with the assistance of Nicole Ganzekaufer, Shannon Hayes, Nipin Vanvadharan and Swayan Shikshan Prayog (SSP)
A handbook on community mapping, a participatory process for assessing the situations in a community and documenting the knowledge of community members.
Peer Exchange Handbook
By Steve Jeanetta, PhD, produced by the Huairou Commission
Peer Exchanges: Sharing the Experiences of Grassroots Women’s Organizations.
Listen to Us Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice
By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD With the assistance of Blerta Cela, Ava Bromberg, Deirdre Pfeiffer and Nicole Ganzekaufe
The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. As widows and orphans, they face physical displacement and mental stress, literally uprooted from their communities and social networks. This blow is worsened by the atrocities of genocide and pandemic HIV-AIDS that ravages entire […]
Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice
By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD, on behalf of Huairou Commission
The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. Women’s groups are responding in innovative ways to change their lives; this report focuses on grassroots women’s strategies to attain and manage land, housing and property.
Shaping Our Own Destiny: Experiences of Micro Finance Programme in Slum and Squatter Communities in Kathmandu and Lalitpur Cities
By By Lumanti Support Group for Shelter
Lumanti Support Group for Shelter is a non-governmental organization dedicated towards alleviation of urban poverty in Nepal through the improvement of shelter conditions in slum and squatter settlements.
SEEDS Pamphlet No. 22 Women’s Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery
By Huairou Commission and GROOTS International
Seeds pamphlets are designed to meet global requests for information about the innovative and practical program ideas advanced to address the roles and needs of low-income women. This edition focuses on practical examples of how low-income women can participate in post disaster relief and recovery.
Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure flyer (Español)
By Huairou Commission
La Iniciativa global sobre la Tenencia Segura para las Mujeres de la Comisión Huairou es una plataforma para avanzar a un enfoque alternativo sobre la seguridad en la tenencia de la tierra para las mujeres que se funde en las experiencias de los grupos de mujeres de base.
Handling Land: Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure
By United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Mounting pressure and competition mean that improving land governance – the rules, processes and organizations through which decisions are made about land – is more urgent than ever. This book shows how the Global Land Tool Network is addressing these problems and more by setting an international agenda on land.
Women’s Views From the Frontline
By Huairou Commission
This action research by the Huairou Commission was created to draw attention to the fact that grassroots women are key stakeholders in disaster risk reduction and the demand for greater accountability from local and national governments, but are often overlooked and excluded.
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