Huairou Commission
Sandy Schilen, Executive Director of the Huairou Commission, and Violet Shivutse, Global Chair and African Region Representative on HC's Governing Council, explain what makes the Huairou Commission...
At the Asian Development Bank's Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Forum 2026, Ika Rachmani - grassroots woman leader and member of Yakkum Emergency Unit Indonesia and the Huairou Comm...
In the highlands of Ecuador, Organización de Mujeres Indígenas y Campesinas Sembrando Esperanza (OMICSE) is turning climate adaptation into opportunity. Through the Locally Led Adaptation program, ...
What does it really take for livelihoods programs to build lasting climate resilience - especially for women and vulnerable communities?
Suranjana Gupta, Special Advisor on Community Resilience at...
Red para el Desarrollo Tecnológico, a través de Practicas Innovadoras (Invernaderos y Túneles) DESATEPIN - a Huairou Commission member organization - brings together women whose work extends far be...
In Kenya's arid Kajiado County, Maasai women are adapting to climate change on their own terms. As erratic weather makes traditional livestock rearing increasingly difficult, Huairou member Rural W...
What does a cooperative truly look like when it's rooted in community?
HC member Angela Córdoba, a grassroots women's leader from Fundación de las Mujeres Cooperativistas de Panamá (FUNDEPROMUCOOP...
Caregiving is work — and it often means women can't leave home to earn an income. SWID (Slum Women's Initiative for Development) in Uganda is changing that.
By supporting grassroots women caregive...
Para Margarita Peláez Flores —activista, cuidadora y líder comunitaria de base de Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí— el trabajo de cuidados es político.
En este video, Margarita comparte cómo ella y ...
For Margarita Peláez Flores — activist, caregiver, and grassroots woman leader from Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí — care work is political.
In this video, Margarita shares how she and her fellow ...
In Peru, CONAMOVIDI — a Huairou Commission member organization — is redefining what community care looks like.
Through their community kitchens program, grassroots women's groups source fresh agri...
As part of the SIDA supported "Nurturing Grassroots Women's Leadership & Social Capital to Foster Resilient Communities in Uncertain Times" program, Huairou Commission's members are implenting a r
Ann Wanjiru, Coordinator at Mathare Legal Aid & Human Rights Advocacy (MLAHRA), Kenya speaks about the devstating impact of the recent floods in 2024 on the community, and the work that grassroots
Huairou Commission's Community Resilience Fund serve as an innovative and flexible finance mechanism to channel resources directly to grassroots women’s groups living in risk prone poor communities...
Violet Shivutse, Global Chair of the Huairou Commission, presented her Intervention at the First International Day of Care and Support, celebrated on October 31, 2023. She spoke on the theme of "Bo...
Between June-August 2023, 20 member organizations of the Huairou Commission in Asia and Africa organised discussions with grassroots women’s groups and local communities to understand the long-ter...
Bindu Shrestha, grassroots woman leader and Chairperson of Community Women's Forum (CWF), Nepal, speaks about how women in her community experience climate change - include the effects of livelihoo...
Sumitha Vincent, from Wayanad District of Kerala, India speaks about the sudden floods experienced in 2018, and the accompanying losses and damages that her family faced.
Grassroots women leaders, parents of children with disabilities, community leaders and local government officials speak about how climate change is having an impact at the local level, and the loss...
Grassroots women's groups and community members associated with Huairou member Winam Grassroots, Kenya, speak about how the climate change influenced calamities like floods and droughts affect them.