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 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.
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 Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
In order to better understand corruption from the perspective of women at the grassroots level, the Huairou Commission undertook a study of 11 communities across eight countries in partnership with UNDP’s Global Thematic Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (PACDE).
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
This publication is part of a series of tools, publications, and resource support that the Huairou Commission has developed to promote horizontal learning amongst grassroots women’s groups and to document and share their strategies and lessons with policymaking and development institutions.
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 Edited by Sarah Silliman
After three years in the making, Huairou Commission announces the release of the Local-to-Local Dialogue Resource Manual: A Guide for Grassroots Women-Led Engagement with Local Government and Decision Makers.
By Carolina Pinhiero, edited by Sarah Silliman
The Summit, co-sponsored by UNDP and the Dutch Foreign Ministry MDG 3 FUND, marked the accumulation of a decade of work empowering women in low-income communities worldwide to improve their living conditions, transform their communities, and exchange their experiences with women across various regions of the world.
By Ayse Yonder, Katia Araujo and Patricia Chaves
Report on Shadow Advisory Committee’s International Mission to Ponte do Maduro, Recife, Brazil (10-12 January 2011).
By Huairou Commission
The Huairou Commission calls for sustained advocacy to advance women’s access, ownership and control over land and resources at the local, national and global levels by positioning grassroots women as knowledge holders in policy making frameworks.
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.