{"id":17136,"date":"2015-12-03T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=17136"},"modified":"2015-12-03T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:12:07","slug":"esther-mwaura-muiru","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/speaker\/esther-mwaura-muiru\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther Mwaura-Muiru"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founder and Coordinator, GROOTS Kenya","protected":false},"featured_media":17137,"menu_order":16,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17136","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker-category-launchpad-speakers","speaker-category-plenary-speakers"],"acf":{"new_ordering":"3","last_name":"Mwaura-Muiru","displayed_in_speaker_list":true,"displayed_on_homepage":false,"display_on_sidebar":false,"expanded_content":"

Esther Mwaura-Muiru is a Founder and Coordinator of GROOTS Kenya (Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood) \u2013 a network of over 2000 self-help groups from poor communities across Kenya. Her\u00a0leadership has enabled women in the GROOTS Kenya network to build a solid network of grassroots women\u2019s organizations and take leadership roles in their own communities and within local, national, regional and international decision-making forums, focusing on local governance, secure land tenure, and community responses to HIV and AIDS. She is an environmental specialist who has documented several award-winning Kenyan community development practices and sits on advisory boards for national and international organizations.<\/p>\n","social_link":"","video_link":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/17136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}