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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 GROOTS International
Working with grassroots women in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia, GROOTS International facilitated conversations that enabled women to reflect on their development and disaster experiences, in order to help women create a common understanding of resilience.
By Ayse Yonder with Sengul Akcar and Prema Gopalan Population Council (Huairou Commission Member)
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.
By GROOTS International
Disaster response programs are opportunities for women to become active participants in shaping the futures of their communities through innovation solutions that address practical problems such as shelter, credit, livelihood and basic services, all of which allows women to build a better future.
By Huairou Commission
The Community Practitioners’ Platform (CPP) is an organizing and networking mechanism connecting grassroots community based groups working to reduce their vulnerability to disaster and climate risks in rural and urban areas.
By Huairou Commission
The Community Resilience Fund (CFR) is a grassroots-run community fund focused on reducing vulnerability to climate and disaster risks and losses in poor rural and urban communities subject to tropical storms, flooding, landslides, drought, seismic activity, food insecurity and other threats.
By The Women and Gender Constituency
This publication focuses on the work of the Women and Gender Constituency to ensure human rights and the gender dimension are incorporated into UNFCCC negotiations, agreements, plans and actions.
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.
By Huairou Commission
This publication demonstrates how bringing women living in diverse situations together allows marginalized women to explain and debate their approaches for recovering or reducing the damages and losses caused by natural disasters, environmental degradation and climate change and to share their knowledge and experiences.
By Suranjana Gupta
Learn about community-led action by the Community Practitioners Platform and how it has focused on gaining the endorsement of community led action from institutional actors operating at local, national, regional and global levels; and how Groots International and Huairou Commission resource grassroots women for key roles in building resilience.
By Maureen Fordham and Suranjana Gupta with Supriya Akerkar and Manuela Scharf
This publication will enrich understanding of the critical linkages among disaster, development, poverty and gender-based inequality.
