We bring women’s perspectives into every aspect of leadership, policy-making, and development.
We bring women’s perspectives into every aspect of leadership, policy-making, and development.
By Carolina Pinhiero, edited by Sarah Silliman
The Summit, co-sponsored by UNDP and the Dutch Foreign Ministry MDG 3 FUND, marked the accumulation of a decade of work empowering women in low-income communities worldwide to improve their living conditions, transform their communities, and exchange their experiences with women across various regions of the world.
By Edited by Sangeetha Purushothaman, Sarah Silliman, Soumita Basu, Sanjeev Pillay on behalf of the Huairou Commission
The grassroots initiatives from five different countries provide insights into the participation of local communities in decentralized decision making and local governance.
By Edited by Sarah Silliman
After three years in the making, Huairou Commission announces the release of the Local-to-Local Dialogue Resource Manual: A Guide for Grassroots Women-Led Engagement with Local Government and Decision Makers.
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
This publication is part of a series of tools, publications, and resource support that the Huairou Commission has developed to promote horizontal learning amongst grassroots women’s groups and to document and share their strategies and lessons with policymaking and development institutions.
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
In order to better understand corruption from the perspective of women at the grassroots level, the Huairou Commission undertook a study of 11 communities across eight countries in partnership with UNDP’s Global Thematic Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (PACDE).
By Nicole Bohrer, Huairou Commission
This publication presents the outcomes of the 2015-2016 partnership between Huairou Commission and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), to support the mobilization of rural women around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
By Sarah Silliman
The Huairou Commission calls for sustained investments in women’s organizations to accelerate progress and realization of the MDGs by 2015.
By Huairou Commission
Outcome Statement from the Grassroots Summit on Women’s Leadership and Governance, March 3-5, 2011.
By Rachael Wyant & Katarina Spasic
This article builds on case studies and lessons learned from 18 months of the Huariou Commission’s Transparency & Accountability Initiative, with specific reference to initiatives in Metro Manila, Philippines, Thankot, Nepal and Jinja, Uganda. Here, organised groups of grassroots women have established innovative, community-driven mechanims to participate in and monitor decision-making and service delivery in […]
By Huairou Commission
Urban Position paper by the Huairou Commission during the Habitat III process. To adequately overcome challenges presented by urbanization and rise to meet growing opportunities, investment modalities and policy-making should reflect the lived realities and experiences of grassroots constituencies.