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Publications

Our Publications

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

Publications

Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure flyer (English)

Year: 2013

English

By Huairou Commission

Huairou Commission’s Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure is a multi-stakeholder platform to advance an alternative approach to women’s security of tenure that is grounded in grassroots women’s experiences.


Our Justice, Our Leadership: The Grassroots Women’s Community Justice Guide

Year: 2013

English

By Pamela Ransom and Joyce Brown

Our Justice, Our Leadership: The Grassroots Women’s Community Justice Guide was designed to serve grassroots women, trainers, and facilitators involved in community justice activities across Africa. It was written by grassroots women, trainers, and facilitators who are members of the Huairou Commission and its Women’s Land Link Africa (WLLA) initiative.


Engendering Access to Justice: Grassroots Women’s Approaches to Securing Land Rights

Year: 2013

English

By Huairou Commission and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This community-based research project examines how grassroots women in Africa address key development challenges using innovative approaches for achieving justice in relation to land disputes and gender-based violence brought about by disinheritance and gender discrimination.


Land Post 2015

Year: 2013

English

By Huairou Commission

One-pager produced with Landesa, ActionAid, and the global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.


Women and Human Settlements -WAHS- Online Information Portal Final Report

Year: 2014

English

By Huairou Commission and UN-Habitat

This report encompasses the final phase of the WAHS portal project, during which the emphasis was on two projects. This report specifically focus on those.


Community Assessment in Relief, Rehabilitation and Rebuilding

English

By Covenant Centre for Development (CCD)

This slide show discusses the important tools in tsunami affected regions, such as community assessment, distribution of relief aid, materials and services that may be provided, rehabilitation, and rebuilding.


Manual on Disaster Preparedness for Children

English

By Sanghamitra Service Society (SSS), Andra Pradesh, India

Children enjoy learning the practical drills of First Aid and Emergency Rescue, skills that will not only help their villages in a disaster, but will enable these children to cope with disasters better. Sanghamitra Service Society created this manual to be a teaching resource.


The Safe Roof Retrofit Booklet

Year: 1989

English

By The Construction Resource & Development Centre

This booklet was created to assist builders and homeowners build and strengthen roofs to survive hurricane damage. The booklet describes and illustrates techniques that will help create roof that are able to withstand hurricanes in the future.


Manual on Community Action in Housing Reconstruction after Disaster (English)

English

By Garifuna-Comite, Honduras

The Garífuna Emergency Committee of Honduras with the support of GROOTS International and AJWS Present created a manual that focuses on the forming of construction committees, safe sites, the beneficiaries of transparent processes, community participation in house design, housing support, principles and the empowerment of women.


Community Assessment Tools

English

By Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP), India

After disasters, the communities who are affected are rarely involved in assessing the damages and loss that has affected them. One of the greatest community tools could be the women from poor communities, as they would be able to collect information that feeds into damage assessments. If these women were involved in these processes, then […]