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Call for Proposals: Tunisia
Is your organization working around climate change adaptation and advocacy, and are you focusing on representing women, youth, urban poor, rural communities, and marginalized groups? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you. The Voices for Just Climate Action program is looking for partners in Tunisia and has issued three grants: 1. Climate grant of…
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Sala de creación: una propuesta para construir nuevas narrativas LGBTIQ+ en Centroamérica
La Sala de creación es una iniciativa, promovida por Hivos América Latina como parte del proyecto Libre de Ser y liderada por la Revista Feminista Ruda, consistió en la implementación de un espacio para el encuentro e intercambio, que generara narrativas novedosas, honestas e impulsoras de cambios sociales, para contrarrestar los discursos de odio y…
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Climate justice at African Crossroads
On October 14 and 15, Hivos’ African Crossroads will organize its fourth edition. The theme of this year’s gathering is ECOEXISTENCE. At the end of Crossroads 2021, participants will emerge with an actionable (collective) manifesto that aims to shape the trajectory of climate justice on the African continent for the years to come. African Crossroads…
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Fortalecimiento de conocimientos y capacidades para cuidar la salud en la Amazonía
14 indígenas de las nacionalidades Shuar, Waorani, A’i Cofán, Achuar, Siona, Siekopai y Kichwa recibieron su certificación como promotores de salud comunitarios. El pasado 03 de octubre, se celebró el evento de clausura del curso “Mitigando la COVID-19 en la Amazonía ecuatoriana”, implementado en el marco de la Ruta de la Salud Indígena Amazónica, en…
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Closing the gender and energy gap: Interview with Magi Matinga
Magi Matinga, Technical Advisor at ENERGIA, explains how ENERGIA has contributed to the inclusion of a gender perspective in policies, projects and programs at national and international level by: Providing research evidence and sex-disaggregated data for use by policy- and decision makers on women’s and men’s energy needs and consumption patterns. Advocating for women’s recognition…
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The gender and energy nexus: Interview with Magi Matinga
What do we mean by gender and how does this relate to energy? What do we mean by gender perspective? Magi Matinga, Techincal Advisor at ENERGIA, guides us through these aspects, highlighting how women and men have different energy needs and how taking or not into account this diversity could influence their life, perpetuate gender…
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An inclusive movement for safe abortions
Today, the 28th of September, we celebrate the International Day of Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. What started as a regional campaign in Latin America, has grown into a worldwide movement for the rights to make decisions about one’s own body and to access basic health care. We sat down with Lucy Minayo, Program…
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Ample coalition launches Gender and Energy Compact
Today, a coalition, initiated by ENERGIA, Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and supported by the Governments of Iceland, Ecuador, Nepal, Kenya and Sweden launched a Gender and Energy Compact to catalyze action towards gender equality and women’s empowerment to accelerate a just, inclusive and…
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Lecciones de la Ruta de la Salud Indígena Amazónica para la próxima emergencia de salud
Ruta de la Salud Indígena Amazónica comparte experiencias y lecciones aprendidas en el proceso de construir una respuesta integral a la COVID-19 en la Amazonía de Ecuador, Perú y Brasil. Preparados para responder: lecciones de COVID-19 para la próxima emergencia de salud (P2RF) es un evento virtual de tres partes, a celebrarse durante los meses…
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Hivos Launches “Letters to Creatives”
Hivos, through its Resource of Open Minds (R.O.O.M.) program, has been enabling a new generation of artists to produce critical cultural content on the African continent.
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Join Hivos at the Global Landscapes Forum Amazonia
We are at a turning point. As everybody knows the Amazon is threatened by deforestation, climate change and constant violations of human and territorial rights. But we need new strategies to counter these threats. That is why scientists, policymakers, activists, youth, investors, ecological restorers, Indigenous peoples, private and public organizations, the media, and other global…
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Acompaña a Hivos en el GLF Amazonía
Este 21, 22 y 23 de septiembre científicos, formuladores de políticas, activistas, jóvenes, inversionistas, restauradores ecológicos, grupos comunitarios e indígenas, organizaciones privadas y públicas, medios de comunicación, y otros actores globales y locales, se reunirán en el GLF Amazonía, la conferencia mundial más grande sobre la Amazonía. Con el objetivo de explorar soluciones para preservar…
