Category: Uncategorized
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Climate resilient cities and inclusive urban food systems
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,…
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Nota de Pesar y Solidaridad por Bruno y Dom
Las organizaciones que conforman el Programa Voces por la Acción Climática en Brasil expresan su pesar y dolor por el brutal asesinato del indigenista Bruno Pereira y el periodista Dom Philips, en Vale do Javari, Amazonas, mientras trabajaban para proteger un territorio amenazado y visibilizar la voces de los pueblos indígenas y comunidades tradicionales de la…
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Advert for the pre-qualification of suppliers for the financial year 2022/23 (Hivos East Africa)
Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values. Together with citizens and their organizations, we aim to contribute towards just, inclusive and life-sustaining societies where people have equal access to opportunities, rights and resources. We work in partnership with others in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America on three impact areas:…
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ONG´s de los Países Bajos conceden el Premio de Derechos Humanos a la embajadora de los Países Bajos en Centroamérica
La Embajada de los Países Bajos en Centroamérica es la ganadora de la primera edición del Premio de Derechos Humanos para Embajadas de los Países Bajos. Este premio bienal es otorgado por Hivos, junto con otras 17 organizaciones de derechos humanos y desarrollo de los Países Bajos, a la embajada de los Países Bajos que…
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Dutch NGOs award Human Rights Prize to Dutch Ambassador in Costa Rica
The Dutch embassy in Costa Rica has won the first edition of the Human Rights Prize for Dutch Embassies. This biennial prize is awarded by Hivos, together with 17 other Dutch human rights and development organizations, to the Dutch embassy that has been most proactive, concrete and effective in defending and promoting human rights. On…
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Hivos hosts Urban Farming Market Day
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…
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Supporting small businesses in Indonesia
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…
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Agentes comunitarios de salud indígena de la Cuenca Amazónica se reúnen en Ecuador
Unión Base (Pastaza), 31 de mayo de 2022.- Se celebró el primer Encuentro Regional de Agentes Comunitarios de Salud Indígenas Amazónicos “Nuestro Territorio, Nuestra Salud” en la sede de la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONFENIAE). En el encuentro, promotores y promotoras comunitarias de Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Colombia y Brasil, y representantes de organizaciones…
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Locally-led climate solutions in Kenya
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…
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New publication: Artivism for Climate Justice
Hivos commissioned a study to learn more about how art can be used to mobilize and strengthen the climate justice movement.
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Data Collectors for Nutrition Profile Data Collection
Purpose of the Job: The main purpose of this assignment is to conduct field data collection in Lusaka and Chongwe. Location: Lusaka and Chongwe, Zambia Type: Short Term Field Assistance Period of Performance: June/July 2022 (15 days) Introduction Hivos is implementing the Healthy Food Africa (HFA) project which aims to increase the resilience of food…
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Meet Hivos at RightsCon 2022
This year’s edition of RightsCon (June 6-10, 2022) once again brings together human rights defenders, government representatives, business leaders, technologists, and journalists from around the world to tackle the most pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. Issues that are also high on Hivos’ Civic Rights in a Digital Age agenda. We’re happy…
