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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 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.
By Steve Jeanetta, PhD, produced by the Huairou Commission
Peer Exchanges: Sharing the Experiences of Grassroots Women’s Organizations.
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.
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 […]
By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans
Two stories of the Land & Housing Campaign in Latin America: “The Bright Light of Luna Creciente,” an Interview with Ecuadorian Grassroots Leader Elva Ulcuango; and “An Unusual Community,” and interview with Maria Auxiliadora co-founder Rose Mary Irusta Perez.
By Huairou Commission
This report documents the history, modes and impact of UN Habitat engagement with the grassroots constituency facilitated by bilateral partnership between UN Habitat and Huairou Commission.
By Mayra Gomez, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions;
Applying United Nations standards to secure women’s housing, land, and property rights in the context of HIV.
By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank
The gender evaluation criteria framework explores how to judge whether a large-scale land tool is sufficiently gender-responsive, to identify where more work needs to be done, and possible entry-points to make a tool equally beneficial to women and men.
By Developed in partnership with UN-Habitat, Global Land Tool Network, Huairou Commission, International Federation of Surveyors-FIG and University of East London
The gender evaluation criteria framework explores how to judge whether a large-scale land tool is sufficiently gender-responsive, to identify where more work needs to be done, and possible entry-points to make a tool equally beneficial to women and men.
By Developed in partnership with UN-Habitat, Global Land Tool Network, Huairou Commission, International Federation of Surveyors-FIG and University of East London
The gender evaluation criteria framework explores how to judge whether a large-scale land tool is sufficiently gender-responsive, to identify where more work needs to be done, and possible entry-points to make a tool equally beneficial to women and men.
