GWIA as a learning partnership

Grassroots women from eight European countries are organizing the next GWIA with financialsupport from the EU -Grundtvig programme. The GWIA methodology wil be extended from a GWIA event (15-19 september 2008) to a two year learning process.
Read more about this exciting experiment in the field of grassroots knowledge in the events section of our website
Download the first report of the partnership
Download the Turkish report of their study visit to the Netherlands
Download the Czech host report of the Polish and Spanish study visits
Download the Dutch host report of the Turkish and Bulgarian visit

GWIA wins the Dubai Prize

The Grassroots Women’s International Academy (GWIA) has been awarded with the Dubai Best Practices Transfer Prize 2006. The award is given to projects accredited as “best practice” by the UN Habitat Best Practices and Local Leadership program for improving the living environment. The selection was made by an independent jury from a list of 48 initiatives short-listed out of 715 submissions. The 2006 cycle of the Dubai award was the first cycle to include the category of Best Practice Transfers.

The GWIA demonstrates two different levels of transferred best practices: In the first place the practices of the participating groups get transferred to other groups across the globe as a result of the GWIA process. In the second place the GWIA as a transfer methodology is a best practice in itself that has been replicated successfully in very different settings.

See websites of UN Habitat and Dubai Municipality or this article in Dutch

What is the Grassroots Women’s International Academy?

The Grassroots Women’s International Academy is a knowledge building and transferring format created by grassroots women to define, exchange and upscale their successful practices. GWIA provides a structure for peer learning as well as mainstreaming. At GWIAs conditions for replication and transfer of practices that work on the ground are analyzed and linked to mainstream debates in a strategic way.

The Grassroots Women’s International Academy (GWIA) features an unique approach to knowledge building and education, directed at deriving knowledge from experience on the ground, from what happens in communities, specifically from practices of grassroots women’s groups around the world.

• For the GWIA Handbook, compiled by Monika Jaeckel, the founder of GWIA, click here.
  The GWIA Handbook describes the unique GWIA methodology.
• Global Urban Development (formerly known as The Prague Institute) has published an article on GWIA
• GWIA has taken part at the 8th International Habitat Encounter in Neiva, Colombia.
  More information (in Spanish) on this event can be found on the website Neiva Habitat 2007.
  Information in English on the Good Practices Exchange and Transfer Program that FUNDACIÓN HÁBITAT COLOMBIA has initiated,  can be downloaded by clicking here

Some impressions of former GWIA's Go to GWIA Events to find out more