Southwest Asia and North Africa

Publications

Publications

Journeys of Courage: Lebanon

This booklet brings together stories of young women who transformed silence into strength during some of Lebanon’s most challenging times.

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Journeys of Courage: Jordan

This booklet brings together stories that reflect the everyday realities of young women and rightsholders navigating stigma, disability, displacement, and deeply rooted social norms in Jordan.

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Voices for Just Climate Action in Tunisia

Through the VCA program, Hivos has supported 15 projects and 12 civil society organizations in Tunisia focusing on food sovereignty, water justice, climate planning, artivism, and environmental advocacy, ensuring that climate action is locally driven and community centered. In this publication, we look at VCA’s impact and achievements.

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Hivos in the MENA region

Active in the MENA region since 2004, Hivos forges partnerships with individuals, groups and organizations that share our vision of advancing human rights and democracy and creating inclusive societies.

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GreenWorks Annual Report 2023

The GreenWorks Program, implemented by an alliance led by Hivos, contributes to climate change mitigation by creating sustainable business and job opportunities for more than 9000 young women and men in the green economy in North Africa. This is the program’s annual report 2023.

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Promoting Freedom of Expression and Information in Tunisia

This linking and learning document distils and documents significant impacts and learnings by presenting essential lessons and four case studies, highlighting key achievements throughout the project.

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GreenWorks Annual Report 2022

This is the Annual Report 2022 of the GreenWorks program, which contributes to climate change mitigation by creating sustainable business and job opportunities in North Africa.

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Freedom of Expression in Tunisia: Legal Mapping

This report maps and analyzes the laws and policies that impact freedom of expression in Tunisia.

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Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2022

Despite the challenges of 2022, we also saw positive developments. Hivos and its partners achieved successes in areas of gender equality and diversity, climate justice, and civic rights. A selection of these can be found in our Annual Report 2022. The annual accounts are also included in this report.

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Reclaimed Lands

The publication Reclaimed Lands explores four scenarios about the future of just green transitions in Africa.

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GreenWorks Annual Report 2021

This is the Annual Report 2021 of the GreenWorks program, which contributes to a Just Green Transition by supporting local climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions that create new and/or support existing green jobs for 9000 young women and men in North Africa.

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Gender barometer

Gender barometer

Jordan and Lebanon launched the much-anticipated MENA Gender Barometer, which for the first time provides regionally comparable sex-disaggregated data on women’s participation.

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Creative hub leader’s toolkit

Creative hub leader’s toolkit

Creative hubs play a vital role in supporting the self-sufficiency and independence of makers of cultural and media productions. As ‘convenors of creatives,’ hubs serve local communities and connect creative practitioners.

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