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Publications

Our Publications

We bring women’s perspectives into every aspect of leadership, policy-making, and development.

Publications

Final Report: Global Summit on Grassroots Women’s Leadership and Governance

Year: 2011

English

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.


Grassroots Women and Decentralised Governance: Change through Partnership

Year: 2010

English

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.


L2L Manual

Year: 2011

English

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.


Transforming Development: Creating Synergies between Grassroots Women and Institutions of Governance

Year: 2012

English

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.


Seeing Beyond the State: Grassroots Women’s Perspectives on Corruption and Anti-Corruption

Year: 2012

English

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).


Rural Women’s Empowerment in the Sustainable Development Era: Priorities, Partnerships, and Policy for Transformational Change

Year: 2017

English

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.


MDG Results and Recommendations Booklet

Year: 2010

English

By Sarah Silliman

The Huairou Commission calls for sustained investments in women’s organizations to accelerate progress and realization of the MDGs by 2015.


Global Summit Outcome Document

Year: 2010

English

By Huairou Commission

Outcome Statement from the Grassroots Summit on Women’s Leadership and Governance, March 3-5, 2011.


Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Year: 2015

English

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 […]


Center Staging Grassroots Women’s Leadership in Securing Sustainable, Inclusive Urbanization

Year: 2015

English

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.