Given proper partnerships, grassroots women’s organizations can be a tremendous resource in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

In this Roundtable, five outstanding grassroots women will showcase their achievements in community development.  Small and large, conceptual and labor intensive, experimental and/or duplicable, the women’s projects will provide the evidentiary and imaginative spur for a creative roundtable discussion on how to better engage the talent, energy, knowledge and motivation of grassroots women’s organizations in the massive global effort to achieve the MDGs.

Guest consultants, policy makers, private and institutional donors, local authorities, academics, as well as representatives of goal-compatible NGOs and community-based women’s organizations will join in the two-hour exploration.

While “Empowering the MDGs” is by invitation only, the highlights of the conversation will be reported on Huairou’s WUF3 blog.  Its ideas on effective partnering with grassroots women’s groups will be incorporated into “How to Partner with Grassroots Women,” a manuscript in real-time progress during WUF3.

For more information: Sarah Silliman
Special thanks to CORDAID, GROOTS, Huairou, UN-HABITAT and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

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Roundtable on Gendering Land Tools
By invitation only
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:30 – 5:30

This practical, multistakeholder Roundtable will focus on the systematic methodologies, partnership and strategies which are needed to augment women’s access to land, property and secure tenure.

Grassroots women will present the land/housing and secure tenure tools they have developed locally.  Other delegates will contribute from their areas of expertise.  All will discuss and advance  a draft of a “gendered land tools framework,” which is part of the GLTN  initiative to develop land tools which are pro-poor, innovative, affordable, scalable and gendered.

For More Information: Siraj Sait 
Organized  by the Global Land Tools Network (GLTN), Shelter Branch and UN-Habitat. International Federation of Surveyors(FIG), Human Settlements-Net (HS net) and Huairou are co-sponsors

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