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Applications for the Digital Defenders Partnership’s Sustainable Protection Fund 2022 are open from July 1st to July 24th, 2022. The Sustainable Protection Fund (SPF) aims to support human rights organizations build their long-term digital security capacities to respond to digital threats and attacks. This year, the grant provides up to €15,000 to fund activities that […]

The Digital Defenders Partnership supports human rights activists, bloggers, and small NGOs experiencing digital security challenges or threats.

This is Hivos’ provisional 2021 Annual Report. It contains our programmatic highlights and organizational information for 2021 together with the draft Annual Accounts. Draft Annual Report & Accounts The final version will be available shortly. If you would like additional information, please contact our Corporate Communication department at comms@hivos.org.

While urban areas only account for two percent of the earth’s surface, they contain half of our planets’ people. By 2050 that will even be an estimated two-thirds. They already consume nearly 80 percent of global food and energy produced. Also they generate about 70 percent of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global waste, […]

Yogyakarta City – ACTION (Active Citizens Building Solidarity and Resilience in Response to Covid-19), a project fully funded by the European Union, organized an Urban Farming Market Day in Yogyakarta City. The event was hosted by Hivos to support families from marginalized communities ensure food security by improving access to income generating opportunities through connecting […]

East Jakarta City – Through the ACTION Project (Active Citizens Building Solidarity and Resilience in Response to Covid-19), the European Union provides funding support to the Association for Advancement of Small Business (PUPUK). With the funding, PUPUK carries out a series of social and economic recovery activities for vulnerable communities, specifically targeting SMEs (Small and […]

The Horn of Africa is being hit by the worst drought in four decades, putting up to 20 million people at risk of famine, according to the UN. Consecutive seasons of below-average rains are severely impacting food security in areas already beset by multiple other challenges. By now it should be more than obvious that […]