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Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood (GROOTS)
- Organization type:Networks & Other
General contact information
- URL: http://www.groots.org
- Address: 249 Manhattan Avenue
- Postal Code: 11211
- City: Brooklyn, NY
- Country: United States of America
- Telephone: +1 7183888915
- Fax: +1 7183880285
- Email: info@groots.org
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
GROOTS operates as a flexible network linking groups in poor rural and urban areas everywhere around the world. It is open to grassroots groups who share a commitment to nurture relationships of mutual support and solidarity among women, helping them in identifying and sharing their successful development approaches and methods globally to strengthen their participation in the development of communities.
Statements & Presentations
- Report on the activities of the Huairou Commision in preparation for the Global Platform / Informe sobre las actividades de la Comisión Huairou en preparación para la Plataforma Global
2013 - Building partnerships to access resources and schemes
2012 - Women led disaster task force: creating differences in their society
2012 - Ensuring Haitian women’s participation and leadership in all stages of national relief and reconstruction
2010 - En-Gendering HFA: Grassroots Women's Strategies for Implementing the HFA
2009 - Community hazard mapping: learning exchange on resilience in Honduras
2008 - Disaster brief, vol. 5, no. 1
2008 - Building better futures: empowering grassroots women to build resilient communities
2007
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Last updated on 18 Jan 2013
Working Areas
- Themes
- Health & Health Facilities
- Water
- Capacity Development
- Gender
- Economics of DRR
- Education & School Safety
- GIS & Mapping
- Structural Safety
- Community-based DRR
- Governance
- Social Impacts & Resilience
- Climate Change
- Recovery
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- Hazards
- Cyclone
- Tsunami
- Flood
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