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Publications

Our Publications

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

Featured Publications

Resilient Women: Integrating Community Resilience Priorities in the Post-2015 Agenda

Year: 2015

English

By Huairou Commission

“Resilient Women: Integrating Community Resilience Priorities in the Post-2015 Agenda” is an action research publication of the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience (CPP) is an organizing and networking mechanism for community-based groups, grassroots women-led groups in particular, to reduce their vulnerability to disaster […]


What Communities Want: Putting Community Resilience Priorities on the Agenda for 2015

Year: 2015

English

By Huairou Commission

This action research, conducted by the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience in seven Asian countries, is an effort to capture the voices of community leaders and bring the resilience priorities of poor, disaster-prone communities into debates that will shape the new policy frameworks on disaster risk reduction to be launched in 2015.


Engendering the New Urban Agenda

Year: 2015

English

By Huairou Commission

Report of the Expert Group Meeting 29-30 September, 2015. The Strategic Interface Between Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment and Sustainable Urban Development & Cities.


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.


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 […]


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 Practitioners Platform Flyer (Bilingual)

Year: 2013

Spanish

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.


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.


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.


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.