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Peer Exchanges: A How-to Handbook for Grassroots Women's Organizations
by the Huairou Commission and Women's Land Link Africa Initiative. 2007.

The Case of The Huairou Commission:
Local Organizing and Global Networking Campaigns
Written by Jacqueline Leavitt, Ph.D. and Ayse Yonder, Ph.D. and published in Betania Alfonsin & Edesio Fernandes (eds). Memorias del IX Seminario Internacional: "Derecho y Espacio Urbano". IRGLUS-PGU, Cuaderno de Trabajo 101, Quito, ECUADOR. 2003

Inviting Partners to Partner: Creating a Partnership Learning Model and Code of Conduct
Written by Jacqueline Leavitt, Ph.D, and published by the Huairou Commission 2002. Funded by UNDP-CSO.

Grassroots Women & Governance [top]

Grassroots women's leadership and 'deepening democracy': the Huairou Commission's Local to Local Dialogue replication
Written by Dahlia Goldenberg and published by Gender & Development, an Oxfam Journal in 2008.

LOCAL TO LOCAL DIALOGUE: A Grassroots Women's Perspective on Good Governance
Written by Suranjana Gupta and published by the Huairou Commission in 2004. Funded by UN-HABITAT. The toolkit was launched the World Urban Forum in Barcelona 2004.

ADVANCING GOVERNANCE THROUGH PEER LEARNING AND NETWORKING: Lessons Learned from Grassroots Women
Written by Monika Jaeckel and published by the Huairou Commission, 2002. Funded by LIFE Global Program of IDG/BDP/UNDP.

Capacity Development of Grassroots Networks to Become Effective Partners in Local Governance for Poverty Eradication: Lessons from Below
Written by Sangeetha Purushothaman and published by Huairou Commission, Funded by LIFE Global Program of IDG/BDP/UNDP.

Women and Habitat - Latin America and the Caribbean Resource page (in Spanish)

I Know Politics Library

From Dialogue to Engagement, from Programs to Policies: Grassroots Initiatives on Women, Children, and Development in Poor Communities in the Philippines - The DAMPA* Experience

GENDER BUDGETING:  A KEY TO MAKING CITIES MORE ACCOUNTABLE TO WOMEN: An example from Caloocan City, Philippines

Participation of Women in City Policy: A presentation by the Information Center of the Independent Women's Forum, Russia

Categorizing Women’s Grassroots and NGO Strategies for Empowerment in Public Policy Making and Implementation:
Written by Pamela Ransom and Judy Kirchhoff and published by the Huairou Commission, 2002.

SEEDS Pamphlet No. 22: Women's Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery
By Ayse Yonder, with Sengul Akcar and Prema Gopalan.

Gender Perspective: Working Together for Disaster Risk Reduction
This publication by UNISDR and GROOTS International aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of the vulnerabilities and risks associated with gender as it presents a collection of 15 practices that showcase the valuable contributions of women to the ongoing efforts for building resilience against disasters at the community level.

Grassroots Women’s Collectives Roles in Post-Disaster Effort: Potential for Sustainable Partnership and Good Governance
By Sengul Akçar, FSWW for Expert Group Meeting on “Environmental management and the minitigation of natural disasters: A gender perspective,” 6-9 November 2001. Support from UN Division for the Advancement of Women and International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

Comité de Emergencia Garífuna de Honduras
Presentation by the Comite de Emergencia Garifuna de Honduras and their response and recovery from Hurricane Mitch at the Grassroots Academy in Barcelona, 2004.

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Grassroots Women & Aids In Africa [top]

Caregivers Advocacy Guide based on the CSW Agreed Conclusions
The 53rd UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2009, focused on "The Equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS." At the end of the Commission session, all participating UN member states at the CSW came to a consensus on the final output document, called the "Agreed Conclusions." This year's Agreed Conclusions are particularly important for grassroots women because it is the first document adopted in plenary by UN Member States that addresses caregiving in any detail. The Agreed Conclusions are a potentially powerful lobbying and advocacy tool for civil societiy because governments have already agreed to the statements within. Civil Society can use the document to hold governments accountable by monitoring and evaluating the level of implementation at the national level.

Common Concern: December 2008
In this issue of Common Concern, we reveal how HIV and AIDS care programmes have been established in many affected communities and are often championed by grandmothers, resilient widows and young women. Sadly, such programmes have not been supported with tools and resources that would enable women to safely and effectively provide care and support. Community-based approaches to health care, especially in the context of HIV and AIDS, require an accompanying policy shift that ensures primary health care service delivery is strengthened. Features a case study of the Home-Based Care Alliance.

GENDER and CARE Supporting Resources Collection: A
mix of accessible and engaging research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study
material, and practical tools focusing on different aspects of care, February 2009. By Emily Esplen, researcher at BRIDGE.

Beyond Unpaid Caregiving: Strategic Partnering to Support and Sustain Grassroots Women’s
Groups’ Home-Based Care Work (in the Context of HIV): A strategic session at the International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, August 6, 2008. Written by Anya Levy Guyer.

Governance and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa: A Huairou Commission Policy Brief

Grassroots Experiences with Local AIDS Responses in Africa: A Powerpoint presentation by Esther Mwaura-Muiru at the World Bank Local Response Consultative meeting, May 2006.

Shifting Aids Resource Mobilization and Funding in Sub-Saharan Africa
Speech by Esther Mwaura-Muiru to The 13th International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa (21-6 September 2003).

Community Mapping: A How-To Handbook for Grassroots Women's Organizations
by the Huairou Commission and Women's Land Link Africa Initiative. 2007.

Listen to Us Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice
by Jacqueline Leavitt, PhD, for the Huairou Commission. 2006.

Children's Property and Inheritance Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Social Protection in Southern and East Africa by Laurel L. Rose. FAO HIV/AIDS Programme Working Paper Series, Working Paper 2.

Children's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS - A Documentation of children's experience in Zambia and Kenya

Building Bridges to the Grassroots
Presentations by the Zimbabwe Women in Construction Association (ZWICA) and the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) from the Grassroots Women's International Academy, Barcelona, 2004.

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