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Introduction
Until recently, grassroots women's knowledge has been difficult
to share. The women were isolated by distance, time, poverty, language,
oral tradition, technology, and gender, among other things. The Huairou
Commission, recognizing the value of grassroots women's local development
knowledge and determined to create opportunities for it to be shared among
grassroots groups, policy makers, advocacy groups and institutions is investing
in the collection, generation and distribution of grassroots knowledge.
Thus Huairou has been a strong supporter of the knowledge generating programs
of Grassroots Women's International Academy
and OUR
Practices. In addition, Huairou authors routinely draw on grassroots
women's accounts to write formal papers for institutional and scholarly
use. Huairou will continue to build a Resource Center
that will serve grassroots organizations, development professionals and
all who partner in sustainable development. |
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