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Session Name: What’s Sendai got to do with LLA?
Session Organizer: Huairou Commission and SDI

Gobeshona Global Conference 2 was organized by International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD).
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About Huairou Commission:
History: For over 25 Years, We Champion Grassroots Women Around the World.
In 1995, the Huairou Commission began in a tent for grassroots women leaders working relentlessly at the 4th World Women’s Conference in Beijing to advance their inclusion in global development processes joined together around a common goal. 

At the outset of the Beijing Conference, GROOTS International – a global network of grassroots women organizations – and the USA-based National Congress of Neighborhood Women came together to ensure that the issues facing grassroots women were finally addressed in the global women’s rights agenda. At the time, there was little space for civil society, especially the poor urban and rural women’s groups, to participate at the High-Level Conference, and the grassroots women leaders' organizing was especially underfunded. Without the representation of grassroots women, the daily issues confronting poor communities, such as access to food, livelihoods, water, and sanitation, were not being prioritized.

Huairou Commission Website Link: https://huairou.org/

About SDI:
SDI is a network of community-based organizations of the urban poor in 32 countries and hundreds of cities and towns across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In each country where SDI has a presence, affiliate organisations come together at the community, city and national level to form federations of the urban poor. These federations share specific methodologies, which are enumerated below.

In its organisational form SDI consists of a Secretariat, a coordinating team, a Board and a Council of Federations. The Secretariat has an administrative and management function. It is accountable to a Board and a Council of Federations made up of nominated grassroots leaders from affiliated Federations. The Board also nominates a Coordinating team that serves as an executive, responsible for overseeing the implementation of SDI programmes.

SDI is committed to supporting a process that is driven from below. The Secretariat facilitates, and sometimes resources, horizontal exchange and information sharing programmes amongst member Federations. It also seeds precedent-setting projects. These exchange programmes and projects have a “political” dimension, to the extent that they are geared towards catalyzing change processes at all levels, from informal community-based institutions to formal institutions of the state and the market.

Since 1996, this network has helped to create a global voice of the urban poor, engaging international agencies and operating on the international stage in order to support and advance local struggles. Nevertheless, the principal theatre of practice for SDI’s constituent organisations is the local level: the informal settlements where the urban poor of the developing world struggle to build more inclusive cities, economies, and politics.

SDI Website Link: https://sdinet.org/

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