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Community Resilience at
Scale: Grassroots Women Demonstrating Successful Practices
Community Resilience at Scale:
Grassroots Women Demonstrating Successful Practices shares
successful grassroots strategies for building community resilience to disasters
and climate change. It showcases women leading sustainable development in their
communities, and features scaling up strategies in order to influence global
agendas such as the Hyogo Framework for Action 2 and Post 2015 Development
Agenda.
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Through these four resilience-building practices designed and implemented by grassroots women in Kenya (GROOTS Kenya), Nicaragua (Unión de Cooperativas de Mujeres Productoras Las Brumas), Honduras (Wagucha), and India (Swayam Shikshan Prayog). Leveraging support from Huairou Commission’s Community Resilience Fund, the women started new initiatives or expanded and deepened existing ones, and transferred solutions to new communities. Practices featured in this publication represent just some of the highlights of grassroots women’s achievements from 1,156 communities in 21 countries that are part of the Community Resilience Campaign.
