Global Grassroots Strategy for Women's Community Leadership

GWIA is a methodology for harvesting the knowledge grassroots women’s groups have gained by improving everyday life conditions for their families and communities. GWIA provides targeted spaces to grassroots innovators, particularly women, who often lack prominent spaces and opportunities — taken for granted by professionals — to articulate and share their experiences and develop the tools to disseminate them. The experiences of local women’s groups often are not documented in the usual circuits that disseminate global information. Their practices are more vulnerable to being disappropriated by mainstream actors, who are better quipped with packaging and dissemination tools. Formats like the GWIA are needed for grassroots groups to claim their knowledge and to disseminate and expand their practices in their own name.