The Huairou Commission is a global coalition of womens networks, institutions and individual profess

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The Huairou Commission is a global coalition of
womens networks, institutions and individual
professionals. It links grassroots womens
community development organizations to partners.
At the same time, it connects development
professionals to on-the-ground practice.
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Types of groups, organizations and institutions
we engage

• Grassroots Women
• Self-help groups
• Slum-dwellers
• Small-scale Farmers
• Rural and urban dwellers
• Mothers groups
• From the North and the South
• Informal economy workers

• Partners
• UN agencies and programs
• Academics
• Practitioners
• Donor agencies
• Development institutions
• Local governments
• Faith-based institutions
• NGOs

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Huairou Organizes Grassroots Womens
Organizations through Member Networks. The
current HC Member Networks are

• Federacion de Mujeres Municipalistas de America
  Latina y El Caribe (FEMUM)
• Regional network, secretariat based in Ecuador
• GROOTS International
• Global network, secretariat based in New York
• HIC-Red Mujer y Habitat de America Latina
• Regional network, secretariat based in
  Argentina (CISCSA)
• Information Center of the Independent Womens
  Forum (ICIWF) National network, secretariat
  based in Moscow
• International Council of Women
• Global network, secretariat based in France
• Women and Cities International
• Global network, secretariat based in Canada
• Women and Peace Network
• Regional network, secretariat based in
  Guatemala (Fundacion Guatemala)
• GROOTS International hosts the Huairou
  Commission secretariat in its New York office

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Current HC Partners

• Multilateral Agencies
• UN-HABITAT (including the Safer Cities Program
  and the Global Land Tools Network)
• UNDP (including the Gender Team and the
  Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor)
• World Bank MAP
• UNISDR (on steering committee of civil society
  network)
• Networks of Local Authorities
• United Cities Local Governments
• AMICALL
• Intl Donors, Advocates and Researchers
• Cordaid
• SIDA
• Provention Consortium
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
• American Jewish World Service
• Stephen Lewis Foundation
• United Methodist General Board of Global
  Ministries

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Successful Partnerships Representation in
decision-making and influencing program

• Womens Land Link Africa (WLLA) Our best
  example of a collaboratively designed and
  implemented program, HC works in partnership
  w/COHRE and grassroots womens groups in 12
  countries across 3 regions in Africa. This
  project has now entered its second phase of
  funding.
• UN-Habitat Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) The
  HC has been active in the planning and
  implementation of GLTN workshops focusing on
  Grassroots and Gendered Land Tools and is
  currently undertaking a capacity building study
  on land tool development from these perspectives.
  The Chair of HC Secretariat was appointed to
  represent Civil Society on the GLTN board in
  April of 2007(2 year term).
• Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor
  (CLEP) The HC is represented on the Advisory
  Board as well as the Thematic Working Groups. 4
  HC members have held grassroots academies prior
  to regional consultations to ensure the voices of
  the poor are heard within the Commission.
• ProVention Consortium In 2007 the HC joined
  ProVention, a coalition of stakeholders focused
  on addressing gaps in undertaking effective in
  poor communities around the world, in the
  development of a fund dedicated to ensuring
  Communities are involved in all aspects in
  resilience building.
• UN-HABITAT Safer Cities Program Serving on the
  Stakeholder Advisory Board, the HC has provided
  input to their Strategic Plan as well as
  collaborated on the development of a Global
  Campaign on Womens Safety.
• UNDP Gender Team Our most recent success in
  partnership development, the HC will work with
  the Gender Team to ensure the results from the
  HIV/AIDS Compensation for Contributions
  Initiative reach the highest policy and
  program-making within the UN and other key
  stakeholders.

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Strategies

• The Huairou Commission focuses on making impact
  in three key areas to advance the work of
  grassroots women.
• Build Grassroots Womens Capacities through
  knowledge exchange and transfer
• Enact change locally through supporting
  grassroots designed and led pilot initiatives
• Influence policies and resources to reflect the
  needs of poor women through collaborative Global
  Advocacy

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Tools for Knowledge Exchange and Transfer

• Peer Exchanges
• Grassroots women transfer skills and innovative
  practices horizontally between groups in
  different countries
• Grassroots women learn by seeing and build
  relationships for a global movement
• Grassroots Academies
• Grassroots women come together to exchange and
  analyze their local knowledge and skills, and
  create collective policy recommendations for
  global meetings

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Tools for Local Impact

• Community-based Mapping
• Mapping places grassroots women in the center by
  empowering women to document local practices,
  strategies and tools, and undertake critical
  evaluations of the state of their communities
• Local to Local Dialogues
• Grassroots womens groups negotiate with local
  authorities for basic services and other
  community wide goals
• Communities build ongoing partnerships with local
  authorities
• Movement-building nationally and regionally
• In Asia, Africa and Latin America, the Huairou
  Commission is supporting on-going movement
  building within and between its Member Networks

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Tools for Global Advocacy

• International Policy Events
• Grassroots women exercise power in political
  spaces by speaking from their lived experience
  and first-hand knowledge
• Documentation for Visibility and Recognition
• Huairou Commission supports grassroots womens
  groups to document their Best Practices.
• Watches
• Grassroots women, professionals and students take
  part in on-the-ground evaluations of relief
  efforts in disaster, evictions, high HIV
  prevalence rates, and other situations.

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The Huairou Commission organizes through
Campaigns which allow grassroots womens
organizations to maintain their priorities and
autonomy while linking to partners locally,
nationally and globally for knowledge exchange
and advocacy. The current HC campaigns are

• Community Resilience
• Governance
• HIV and AIDS
• Land Housing

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Campaign Members
AIDS Aktenamit, Guatemala ECM, Malawi El Comite,
Honduras GROOTS Kenya Girl Child Network,
Zimbabwe JWOP, Zambia KCCC, Uganda NGOCC,
Zambia NVWCIG, Cameroon IWCC, Nigeria Rwanda
Womens Network SSP, India UCOBAC, Uganda
Governance All other Campaign Members
plus CISCA, Argentina CoMultiversity,
Philippines Czech MCs DAMPA, Philippines Estrategi
a, Peru FEMUM, Peru FOWODE, Uganda German
MCs ICIWF, Russia Lihok Philippina MINE,
International Women in Cities International
Land and Housing

• DAMPA, Philippines
• CO-Mulitversity, Philippines
• IWCC, Nigeria
• Rwanda Womens Network, Rwanda
• MWEDO, Tanzania
• Uganda Land Alliance, Uganda
• UCOBAC, Uganda
• SWID, Uganda
• AWARE, Uganda
• Seke Rural HBC, Zimbabwe
• Housing People Zimbabwe
• Dialogue on Shelter, Zimbabwe
• Ntengwe for Community Development, Zimbabwe
• Kenya Land Alliance, Kenya
• Zambia Widows and Orphans Trust, ZWOT
• Las Brumas, Honduras
• Fundacion Guatemala, Guatemala
• Casa da Muher, Brazil

• PDAP, Bangladesh
• Uniao Nacional por Moradia Popular, Brazil
• Ntankah Village Women and CAGEWESA, Cameroon
• Peoples Dialogue, Ghana
• Grassroots Sisterhood, Ghana
• Womens Construction Collective, Jamacia
• GROOTS Kenya, Kenya
• Lumanti Support Group for Shelter, Nepal
• Nepal Mahila Ekta Samaj (NMES), Nepal
• Estrategia, Peru
• Mujeres Unidas, Peru
• LAMOSA, South Africa
• RWM, South Africa
• REFDAF, Senegal
• AFEBEO, Burundi
• ITERAMBERE, Burundi

Community Resilience Ashiane, Inc, India Comite,
Honduras SSP, India CRDC, Jamaica KEDV,
Turkey Uplink, Indonesia Rose, Sri Lanka Emace,
Sri Lanka
Fundaction Guatemala Fundacion Apachita Rede
Pintadas, Brazil Cooperativa Las Brumas,
Nicaragua Mujeres Unidas, Peru
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Community Resilience

• In disaster risk management and community
  resilience building activities, women are
  excluded due to social barriers which prevent
  them from accessing public space and planning
  forums. The HC Community Resilience Campaign
  works to ensure grassroots women act as
  collectors and disseminators of information,
  advisors to government, and community trainers to
  pass on vital information to build resilient
  communities from the ground up.
• In 2007 the HC participated in the UNISDR Global
  Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in
  partnership with the ProVention consortium which
  has led to the development of a Fund to support
  community disaster risk reduction initiatives.

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Governance

• The Governance campaign aims to build the
  capacity of poor women to take advantage of
  decentralization processes in their communities
  through engagement with local authorities and
  decision makers to ensure that government
  policies and programs work for the poor.
• In 2007 the Huairou Commission supported such
  processes in Africa through regional Local to
  Local dialogue trainings and participation in the
  4th Africites Summit. The Huairou Commission
  strengthened its partnership with the UN-Habitat
  Safer Cities Program and conducted a Global
  Assessment on Womens Safety Practices. The
  draft findings were shared at the International
  Conference on the State of Safety in World
  Cities, held in Monterrey, Mexico.

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HIV/AIDS

• In order to reverse top-down professionally
  driven service-based research and science-driven
  HIV/AIDS initiatives, the HC is supporting
  grassroots organizations working in rural and
  urban areas to build a constituency of grassroots
  caregivers to engage with local AIDS authorities
  and decision-makers and to influence
  international policy and program-making.
• In 2007, the Huairou Commission supported a
  coalition of over 20 grassroots groups to
  participate in a Grassroots International Academy
  and attend the YWCA International Womens Summit,
  Women Leading and Making a Difference on HIV and
  AIDS. The HC is continuing to support the
  development of partnerships to support the work
  of grassroots caregivers over the next year, in
  particular through the Compensation for
  Contributions Initiative supported by the UNDP
  Gender Unit.

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Land Housing

• The Land and Housing Campaign is working with
  grassroots womens groups around the world to
  identify innovative on-the-ground strategies and
  practices that women are using to fight for their
  rights to land and property at the local,
  national and international levels. Our focus is
  to build the capacity of grassroots womens
  groups and to highlight the strategies and
  practices they are implementing to improve
  women's social, economic and political status
  within their communities.
• In 2007 -2008 the Huairou Commission worked
  to build the capacity of grassroots womens
  groups and enhance multi-stakeholder
  collaboration through a number of key partnership
  initiatives focused on improving womens access
  to land and housing including
• The Womens Land Link Africa (WLLA) project
• Organizing and co-hosting a Grassroots Womens
  International Land Academy in Entebbe, Uganda
• Anchoring and co-sponsoring key meetings of the
  Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
• Co-sponsoring Grassroots Academies and
  Consultations with the Commission for Legal
  Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP)

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Womens Land Link Africa Project

• The regional projects core partners include the
  HC and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
  (COHRE), with active leadership by a number of
  grassroots partners in ten countries across three
  regions of Africa. The project is funded by SIDA.
  
• The Womens Land Link Africa project supports and
  strengthens linkages between regional
  stakeholders focused on improving womens access
  to, control over and ownership of land and
  housing in Africa.
• The overall objective is to strengthen grassroots
  womens efforts to ensure mainstreaming of gender
  into local, national, regional and global policy
  arenas focused on land, housing and property
  rights in Africa, by increasing coordination
  between multiple stakeholders and knowledge
  transfer.

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GLOBAL LAND TOOL NETWORK (GTLN)

• The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is an
  initiative of UN- HABITAT that is focused on
  improving the administration of land policies,
  with the aim of ensuring that policy-making and
  policy management, concerning land, accommodates
  the concerns and practices of all constituencies
  of land governance institutions.
• HC ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE GLTN
• In March 2007 the HC, COHRE and SDI partnered
  with UN-HABITAT to organize the first meeting of
  the UN-Habitat GLTNs Grassroots Mechanism in
  Nairobi, Kenya.
• In October 2007 the HC and UN-HABITAT
  co-organized an international workshop on
  "Gendering Land Tools. The focus of the workshop
  was on developing criteria for large scale
  gendered land tools and outlining criteria for
  scaling up existing community land tools.
• The HC is undertaking a pilot study of capacity
  building activities in land tool development,
  with a focus on a number of case studies where
  capacity building activities were pioneered or
  facilitated by grassroots organizations
  themselves.
• In April 2007, the Chair of the HC Secretariat
  was appointed to represent civil society on the
  GLTN Board. This is two-year position.

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Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor

• The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the
  Poor (CLEP) aims to make the link between poverty
  and the inability of the poor to access
  acceptable, legal structures to protect economic
  assets and support economic activities. Its work
  will contribute to achieving the Millennium
  Development Goals by influencing policy at
  national and international levels.
• The partnership between CLEP and the HC
  offers an opportunity for voices of the poor to
  be included in a global consultation and legal
  reformation process alongside other kinds of
  academics and experts.
• Partnership Activities
• Representation of the HC on the Advisory Board by
  Jan Peterson
• Representation of the HC in the thematic working
  groups
• Carrying out Grassroots Academies, or grassroots
  women's consultations, alongside the regional and
  national consultation processes of the Commission
  on Legal Empowerment of the Poor

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Activity Plans 2008

• Launch of the Womens Empowerment for the Global
  Environment Program in partnership with UN GEF
  Small Grants Program
• Operationalizing Community Disaster Resilience
  Fund with Provention
• First program year of the second phase Womens
  Land Link Africa (WLLA) a three year program
• Participation in the Commission on the Status of
  Women (CSW) the Commission on Sustainable
  Development (CSD)
• Advancing Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
• Compensation for Contributions (HIV/AIDS Campaign
  in partnership with UNDP Gender Unit)
• Launch of the Global Campaign on Womens Safety
  (in partnership with UN-Habitat Safer Cities
  Program)
• Participation in the International AIDS
  Conference, Mexico City
• Participation at the WUF IV, October 2008 in
  Nanjing, China
• Seeding Regional Grassroots Knowledge Facilities

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