The Huairou Commission recognises and respects diversity among women, which is seen as a source of richness and resources. In each region the members of the Huairou Commission are trying to reach diverse women, approaches and answers to our everyday problems and challenges. Building Knowledge Documentation of Our Best Practices is meant to be in itself a process of empowerment for those women who are developing the experience. Women interested in sharing their experience should learn from the process of documenting it. Participation One of the important things that make Our Best Practices different is participation.
Participation is a value that needs to be enhanced and promoted in all our efforts.
Gathering information in an inclusive and participatory manner, looking at our experiences from the point of view of all the people involved, deciding together how to present the experience is important. Sharing The idea of documenting Our Best Practices is meant to enhance sharing among women, to foster mutual capacity building in face to face exchanges, and peer learning and transfer systems. It is important that grassroot women be initiators of their own information sharing and horizontal and vertical transfers rather than receivers and beneficiaries of trainings, programs and capacity buildings of the development industry . The experiences documented are the practices of those who carry them out. The inclusion of these experiences in publications, data bases, conferences and other channels of communication and transfer will respect this ownership and create favorable conditions for grassroot participation and ownership in dissemination and implementation processes.