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Empowering women to link community resilience priorities to decentralized development
By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank
This is an impact report on the Asian Development Bank supported program titled ‘CLOSING THE GAP: Empowering women to link community resilience priorities to decentralized development’. It looks at the work done by Yakkum Emergency Unit, Indonesia and DAMPA, Philippines as part of the program.
Huairou Commission’s Report to the Independent Panel
By Huairou Commission / The Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience
This report documents the history, modes and impact of UN Habitat engagement with the grassroots constituency facilitated by bilateral partnership between UN Habitat and Huairou Commission.
Agriculture Practices in Drought Situation
By Huairou Commission / The Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience
Drought ridden villages in the Marathwada region of India are seeing a gradual change in addressing water scarcity and agriculture practices. Women leaders across the villages are taking the lead in introducing and scaling up innovative initiatives in sustainable agriculture livelihood focus on nutritious local foods for local consumption.
Cosecha de Agua de Lluvia
By Huairou Commission / La Plataforma de Practicantes Comunitarias para Resiliencia
Una de las soluciones para enfrentar el problema de la escasez de agua que pusieron en marcha las mujeres de las comunidades de Guatemala fue aprovechar de manera eficiente el agua de lluvia, siguiendo una tradición milenaria que se practica desde hace 5.000 años.
Seguridad Alimentaria a través de Bancales o Tablones Aéreos
By Huairou Commission / La Plataforma de Practicantes Comunitarias para Resiliencia
El objetivo de los bancales aéreos es que las mujeres que se dedican al trabajo dentro de las casas aprovechen este medio de producción para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria de su familia, por medio del consumo de las hortalizas o verduras cultivadas en ellos. Aparte, esta práctica les permite recibir algún ingreso a través de […]
The Global Community Resilience Fund: Operational Framework and Guideline
By Huairou Commission
This publication presents the operational Guidelines of the Community Resilience Fund (CRF), a financial mechanism for supporting grassroots women’s groups implement and scale up community driven development practices.
Community-Led Partnerships for Resilience
By The World Bank Group
“Community-Led Partnerships for Resilience” is a 2015 publication co-presented by the World Bank Group, and Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) in partnership with the Community Practitioners Platform (CPP) co-led by Huairou Commission (HC) and Groots International (GI). It highlights the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in advancing resilience and sustainable development in […]
Community Resilience at Scale: Grassroots Women Demonstrating Successful Practices
By Ana Liz Flores, Manuela Pinilla, and Irene Leung
“Community Resilience at Scale: Grassroots Women Demonstrating Successful Practices” shares successful grassroots strategies for building community resilience to disasters and climate change. It showcases women leading sustainable development in their communities, and features scaling up strategies in order to influence global agendas such as the Hyogo Framework for Action 2 and Post 2015 Development Agenda.
Resilient Women: Integrating Community Resilience Priorities in the Post-2015 Agenda
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
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.
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