by Suranjana Gupta on behalf of the Community Practitioners Platform 2011

By Maureen Fordham and Suranjana Gupta with Supriya Akerkar and Manuela Scharf Published by GROOTS International February 2011. This publication will enrich understanding of the critical linkages among disaster, development, poverty and gender-based inequality

By Steve Jeanetta on behalf of the Huairou Commission Huairou Commission Publication 2007

By Monika Jaeckel Huairou Commission Publication 2002

By GROOTS International 2007 GROOTS International’s Thematic Programme on Community Resilience seeks to empower grassroots women to build resilient communities. This programme emerged from member organizations’ work in disaster-hit communities in India, Turkey, Honduras and Jamaica. Member groups found that disaster response programmes were opportunities for women to become active participants in shaping the futures of their communities. Through their participation, grassroots women have developed innovative solutions that address practical problems of shelter, credit, livelihoods and basic services – all of which lie at the intersection of resilience and development. What is unique about these grassroots solutions is that they also re-position women in the eyes of their families and communities. This publication highlights roles that grassroots women are playing in building resilient communities and insights emerging from resilience building efforts led by grassroots women in Peru, Jamaica, Honduras, Turkey, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India.

By Ayse Yonder with Sengul Akcar and Prema Gopalan Population Council (Huairou Commission Member) Publication 2005

By Sangeetha Purushothaman Huairou Commission Publication 2002

by Debbie Budlender, September 2009 In the first half of 2009, structured interviews were conducted with 1,366 volunteers providing care-giving in six African countries. The interviews were conducted as part of the “Compensations for Contributions: Creating an enablig policy framework for effective home-based care” initiative, a project supported by the UNDP-Japan Partnership Fund (WID/GAD).

After three years in the making, Huairou Commission announces the release of the Local-to-Local Dialogue Resource Manual: A Guide for Grassroots Women-Led Engagement with Local Government and Decision Makers. Edited by Sarah Silliman. Contributors: Susanna George, Esther Mwaura Muiru, Everlyne Nairese and Sarah Silliman. 2011.

Authored by Jeffrey Kaloustian - Cultural discrimination, isolation, and disempowerment are the shared experience of the women of Bihar. Historically, women have primarily been confined to the home if not working in the fields. Illiteracy rates among the women of Madhubani district are substantially higher than the state’s 47% average. Poverty and unemployment spur massive male migration from Bihar, increasing the burdens of farming, child rearing, and domestic chores on women and girls.

By: Lucy Earle and Britha Mikkelsen, Published by UN-HaBITAT (2011) The objectives of the evaluation are to assess UN-HABITAT’s efforts in mainstreaming gender across its programmes and policies, and the appropriateness of its institutional arrangements and strategic partnerships for the promotion of gender equality in human settlements. In addition to the accountability objective, the purpose of the evaluation is to generate lessons to inform decisions about how institutional arrangements for gender mainstreaming and related strategic partnerships can be improved.

By Huairou Commission Huairou Commission Publications 2006

By Becca Asaki and Shannon Hayes | Oxfam Publication, August 2011 | Abstract: Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots women's community-based organisations in Kenya, Brazil and Peru, where women's self-help groups, networks, federations, and supporting NGOs, have been leading and organising livelihoods, health and food security initiatives for the benefit of their members and communities. Many of the objectives of social protection can best be met by creating a social protection framework that recognises and builds on grassroots women's own initiatives. This would reposition poor women in the social protection debate: recasting them from 'beneficiaries', to become active agents of change, and formal partners with government and development agencies.