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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 Sangeetha Purushothaman
For grassroots networks to become effective partners to local government, capacity development is needed for civil society, local government and other financial institutions that support grassroots initiatives.
By Monika Jaeckel
Grassroots women’s groups worldwide are redefining governance and development in their communities. Center staging grassroots women’s practices, supporting their leadership and mainstreaming their perspectives are key to sustainable development.
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.
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 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 […]
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.
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.
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.
By Regina Pritchett
The study examines how over 70 grassroots women-led groups in 7 countries in Africa—Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe—are using a gender empowerment framework to help women and communities access justice in diverse contexts of legal pluralism.
By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank
Summary of the BrainTrust III Meeting, October 2014. This 3-day meeting aimed to gather inputs, clarify concepts and renew primary directions, from the leadership of the Resilience thematic campaign in relation to its vision, goal and objectives, in particular in relation to its two main mechanisms – the Community Resilience Fund (CRF) and the Community […]
