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Hivos Sustainable Diets for All programme holds the first ever SD4ALL Media Awards in Zambia
The Zambian diet is mainly composed of cereals, predominantly maize, starchy roots and, to a lesser extent, fruit and vegetables. Cereals provide almost two-thirds of the dietary energy supply. According to the National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC), one of the major causes of malnutrition is the mono diet practice. Mono cropping in Zambia The…
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No need for GMOs: Uganda’s rich biodiversity already provides solutions to the country’s food problems
The Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Bill puts the future of Uganda under threat: Slow Food offers a different way forward. “In Uganda, Slow Food continues to embrace, implement and disseminate agroecological practices as the legitimate solution to the problems of the current food system; it works on initiatives that defend the non-renewable wealth of food biodiversity…
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Looking for health and value: Bandung’s food street vendors and their customers
Health is unfair. This was the conclusion that Sterhen “Saska” Akbar, Project Coordinator of Riset Indie, came to at the end of the Knowledge Café discussion at the Bandung Food Change Lab talk show and exhibition, held from 23 to 24 November 2017 in Bandung, Indonesia. This activity is part of Hivos and IIED’s Sustainable…
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Workplace policies that promote gender equality and fight HIV/AIDS
Through the Women @ Work programme, Hivos and our local partners work together to improve the labour conditions for women working at international farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Within this programme, we pay special attention to preventing gender-based violence and HIV and AIDS at the workplace as a means to increase women’s socioeconomic empowerment and wellbeing…
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Dear Bullet….By Sixolile Mbalo #16Days16Voices
Day 4: Hivos caught up with Sixolile Mbalo; a survivor, author and GBV champion, at a conference in South Africa. Sixolile shares how she took back her life and made the best out of her situation. She shares how sharing her story has freed her from its negativity and her work helping others reclaim their lives after…
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Social norms…A propagate of GBV? #16Days16Voices
Culture and religion play a big role in how society reacts towards Gender Based Violence (GBV). Patriarchal systems stem mainly from cultural and religious values and as such in their observance and practice make it difficult for members of society that experience GBV to seek punishment for perpetrators. Women often are the ones to justify domestic violence…
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Ending Child Marriage Key Priority in Southern Africa
Hivos Southern Africa in collaboration with Gateway Health Institute and the AIDS Foundation South Africa hosted a Networking Learning Discussion on Early and Forced Marriage. The dialogue titled: Child Marriage and Sugar Daddies held on Thursday 9 November 2017 featured youths from different institutions in South Africa. The main aim of the dialogue session was to…
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A Moment of Silence
Hivos joins the rest of the world in the commemoration of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV), a time when we stop and reflect on GBV and how we are working towards making it end, how society deals with victims and in what new forms it has shown itself in a continuously evolving…
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Victimised through the click of a mouse #16Days16Voices
In a digital society, friends and enemies are made all over the world via social sites and relationships are solidified or broken by ‘hashtags’ or ‘selfies’. While online media has served many well, there has been a tragic global increase of its misuse through online victimization and gender targeted attacks. Perpetrators no longer need to look in the…
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Un diálogo íntimo por las mujeres con VIH
Un derroche de energía positiva me transmitió a nivel personal el primer día del Diálogo de alto nivel: ‘Uniendo nuestras voces para transformar’, que organizó ICW Latina e Hivos América Latina con el financiamiento del Fondo Mundial para la lucha contra el sida, la tuberculosis y la malaria, en San José, Costa Rica. Una comunidad…
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Crónica de voces de VIH: Valentía, incidencia, hechos
Día 1: Mover para transformar Los acentos de toda Latinoamérica han invadido una pequeña ciudad de Costa Rica: del 20 al 21 de noviembre, Heredia fue la sede de un Diálogo de Alto Nivel sobre mujeres, derechos humanos y VIH, con presencia de aproximadamente 150 personas tomadoras de decisión, muchas de ellas mujeres con VIH, de…
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Co-creating solutions for dealing with sexual harassment
By Fauzia Mohammed The question as to whether it is a permissive society, a blind eye by the community, an ill-bred culture or weak policies at institution level that has prompted sexual harassment incidences to sky rocketing numbers remains unanswered. Regrettably, sexually inappropriate remarks towards women at work places, educational centers and society at large…