The Free to be Me Alliance stands in solidarity with the LGBTIQ+ community in Kenya and with all those mourning the loss of Edwin Kiprotich Kiptoo, commonly known as Edwin Chiloba. We recognize this is a difficult time for queer activists, the family and friends of Edwin, and those who admired and supported his work […]
Hivos East Africa is looking for a consultant to facilitate a 2-day team building event.
The African Crossroads gathering returned this year with an engaging two-day event held in Harare, Zimbabwe. While many participants were able to attend in-person, an even larger part of the audience from across Africa connected online. African Crossroads is a community of future-oriented African thinkers and doers that meets once a year. The Crossroad’s gatherings […]
The core purpose of the Regional SRHR Fund is to improve access to high quality SRHR information and services for adolescents and youth in all their diversity as underserved populations.
As the climate crisis worsens, the work of climate activists and conservationists is more important than ever. Yet they are coming under increasing pressure. In fact, more than 1,700 climate activists and conservationists have been murdered since 2012. What does Hivos do? Hivos supports courageous people like Adriano and Manar who fight to keep our […]
On the eve of Human Rights Day, ABN AMRO hosted its 8th International Human Rights Conference in Amsterdam. The event was dedicated to “A Just Transition” and the role that companies and financial institutions should play in ensuring that a future zero-carbon world is also a fair and inclusive one. Hivos CEO Anne Jellema joined […]
This step-by-step digital support guide helps smaller civil society organizations and grassroots groups respond to the digital safety needs of the people they work with and for.
The Regional SRHR Fund developed a Malawi Age of Consent contextual analysis with the aim to support the undertaking of an evidence-led advocacy process by focusing on age of consent barriers to adolescents’ access to SRH services in Malawi.
Through the Regional Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (R-SRHR) Fund, Zambia Youth Platform (ZYP) conceptualized the “Enhanced Youth Action Project” aimed at enhancing adolescent access to SRHR information and services.
In Zimbabwe, one in three girls is married off before they reach the age of 18. Most of the causes of child marriages are preventable and are caused by a myriad of interlinked factors.
Bessy Ferrera was a young Honduran trans woman and activist who was killed in 2019 by a hate crime. Her legacy inspired Hivos to create an emergency fund for LGBTIQ+ people in life-threatening situations. The fund has already helped over 30 people.
By Mickey Andeweg (Hivos) and Jimena Cascante Matamoros (Restless Development) All too often, women with disabilities are left out of conversations on sexual health and bodily autonomy. This week, the We Lead program is present at the International Conference on Family Planning in Pattaya, Thailand. During the Youth Pre-Conference, four young women with disabilities from […]