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  • Hivos Director of Operations Tours Projects in Indonesia

    Hivos Director of Operations Sanne Nolst Trenité toured a number of Hivos projects and partners in Indonesia at the end of April until early of May this year. For staff at Hivos Southeast Asia, her visit provided opportunities to meet her and discuss developments important to Hivos with her. Interaction, engagement, inspiration, acceleration and support were…

  • 5 ideas para construir una sociedad verde en América Latina

    5 de junio de 2017. Este año el mundo conmemora el día del medio ambiente en medio de una encendida discusión sobre el cambio climático. En 2015 celebramos la adopción de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y el tan esperado Acuerdo de Paris; y hace un año reinaba el optimismo sobre el potencial que ofrecía…

  • Cervical Cancer: A Forgotten Tragedy

    Cervical cancer is a cancer that arise from the cervix. It is due to an abnormal growth of cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body (the cervix is the lower, narrow part of the uterus or the womb). Almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by…

  • Women Empowered for Leadership Programme Launches in Zimbabwe

    Hivos Southern Africa launched its Women Empowered for Leadership Programme (WE4L) in Zimbabwe on April 27, 2017 at its regional offices in Harare, Zimbabwe.  The launch was attended by women leaders from political, civil society and business sectors. Renowned Zimbabwean business woman Mrs Rudo Boka-Mutambanengwe was the key note speaker.  In her remarks, Mrs. Boka-Mutambanengwe…

  • Hivos Southern Africa Conducts Outcome Harvesting for Women Empowered for Leadership partners in Zimbabwe

    Hivos Southern Africa conducted a training on outcome harvesting targeted at partner organizations in the Women Empowered for Leadership project in Zimbabwe. Twenty participants underwent the training and expressed enthusiasm at learning how to effectively conduct outcome harvesting processes. The Women Empowered for Leadership (WE4L) is a five-year programme running from 2016-2020 managed by Hivos…

  • Obstetric Fistula: A Silent Killer Among Women and Girls

    Hivos joins the rest of the world in commemorating International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, commemorated annually on 23 May 2017. Obstetric fistula is a hole between the vagina and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged obstructed labor in the absence of timely and adequate medical care, leaving a woman incontinent (lacking voluntary…

  • Every smart entrepreneur has a secret weapon

    I made my way through the small alley that leads to their new office and workshop in Beirut. Clean white marble tiles, sparkling white walls and the smell of paint everywhere showed the place was clearly still under construction. When it’s up and running next month, it will be the third physical space of Atelier…

  • Hivos Southern Africa Highlights Sustainable Diets for All (SD4ALL) at Agritech Expo Zambia 2017

    Hivos Southern Africa Zambia Hub’s Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) participated in the Agritech Expo Zambia held in Lusaka, Zambia on 27 – 29, 2017. Agritech Expo Zambia is a business-to-business platform for agricultural professionals and institutions, from small-scale farmers to commercial enterprises, to engage and conduct business with some of the world’s leading suppliers…

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  • Un día para hacer historia

      Dayana Hernández y Kendra Jordany, lideresas trans de Costa Rica y Honduras conmemoran el Día Internacional contra la Transfobia postulándose a un cargo público ¡por primera vez en la historia de sus países!    Puede ver este artículo en inglés aquí.

  • Whose story counts in energy access?

    Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, steps on the podium and smiles into a huge hall filled with hundreds of people suited up for the occasion. She takes up the microphone, and and with that simple gesture opens the three-day sustainable energy conference whose title is projected on a gigantic screen above her:…

  • Biogas and bio-slurry: why Mr Sialim is smiling

    Mr. Sialim’s face looks radiant when he welcome us to his home in Keputran Village of RT005 RW003 Sukoharjo, Pringsewu, Lampung. Even though he has just returned from his fields, Mr. Sialim showed his hospitality and led us into his residence. He did not even mind when we asked his wife, Mrs. Martini, who was…

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