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Title Listen to Us: Grassroots Innovations to Securing Land and Housing Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 16:30 - 18:30 Room Oceanview 2 Event Description Secure access to and control over land and housing are essential for women’s security, economic empowerment and realization of human rights. Achieving gender equality in rights to and control over land and housing impacts positively on communities’ access to infrastructure and services. This equality is key for sustainable agriculture, poverty reduction and economic growth. This event will focus on the innovations already implemented by women at the grassroots to secure their land and housing. Women will present strategies and highlight impacts of such interventions. Comments from panellists will follow, highlighting lessons learned to facilitate dialogue on various approaches and to develop a space for collective organizing. The Women’s Land Link Africa will be highlighted as an innovative practice. Session Language English Spanish Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Lajana Manandhar, Lumanti, Nepal Luz Maria Sanchez Hurtado, Estrategia-United Women for a Better Community, Peru Violet Shivutse, Groots Kenya Evelyn V. Abagao, DAMPA Inc., Philippines Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) LISTEN_TO_US_100004.doc WLLA_NEWSLETTER_100004.doc WHRP_FACT_SHEET_10004.doc WHRP_FACT_SHEET_TWO_10004.doc   Host Organization Huairou Commission and Women Land Link Africa (WLLA) Initiative Partners Host Organization Description The Huairou Commission is a global partnership coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women, community development organizations to partners for access to resources, information sharing and political spaces. Further, it links development professionals to on-the-ground experiences/practice. Currently, the network focuses its joint efforts on governance, AIDS, disaster, secure tenure and post-conflict. The WLLA Initiative is an effort of the Huairou Commission, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, FAO SAFRO, and UN HABITAT, and links all actors working towards positive change for women's housing and land in Africa, in order to support and strengthen ongoing work. Website (Organizer and partners) www.huairou.org www.cohre.org www.cohre.org www.fao.org www.unhabitat.org

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