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Grassroots Academy
The Impact of a Global Grassroots Women’s Movement: The 4th World Women’s Conference in Huairou, China, until Today
By Pam Ransom & Cathy Holt
Peer learning was an essential tool for the Huairou Commission since the organization’s inception at the Fourth World Women’s Conference in Huairou, China. Peer learning took place in the grassroots women’s tent. The practice involves fundamental principles of transforming power as participants exchange knowledge, methods, strategies, and experiences with other grassroots women. Peer learning involves […]
Building a Grassroots Global Movement: 25 years later
By Pam Ransom & Cathy Holt
The Huairou Commission: Women Homes and Community is a women-led social movement of grassroots groups from poor urban, rural, and indigenous communities who collectively work together to improve living conditions and status.
WLLA—Grassroots Women’s Land Academy Report 2009 (2nd Annual)
By Huairou Commission
The second annual Women’s Land Link Africa (WLLA) Land Academy took place from 22-26 March 2009 in Accra, Ghana.
Recipes for Resilience
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.
Monitoring and Evaluation: A How-to Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizations
By Renee Kantelberg and Jo Kempon, on behalf of the Huairou Commission
The objectives of this handbook are to: provide an overview of some of the basic concepts and central issues in M&E; introduce an overall framework that will help grassroots women implement an M&E system appropriate to their context; and introduce a number of concepts and tools to help grassroots women engage in a practical approach […]
From Dialogue to Engagement, from Programs to Policies: Grassroots Initiatives on Women, Children, and Development in Poor Communities in the Philippines: The DAMPA Experience
By Damayan ng Maralitang Pilipinong Api (DAMPA)
Paper presented at the Grassroots Women’s International Academy (GWIA), 7-11 September 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
Advancing Governance Through Peer Learning and Networking: Lessons Learned from Grassroots Women
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.
BrainTrust III Summary Report
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 […]
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