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ralizing Government and Centralizing Gender in Jordanian Municipalities’ August 10, 2020 By Shara Jazzar About the ‘Decentralizing Government and Centralizing Gender in Jordanian Municipalities’ project   With support from Hivos and funding from the Dutch MFA, the Higher Population Council (HPC) conducted a study on ‘the role of municipal councils in responding to COVID-19 pandemic’, […]

ouncils in Jordanian local administrations August 10, 2020 By Shara Jazzar In partnership with Hivos and funding from the Dutch MFA, the Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) in Madaba launched its training program on ‘Youth Shadowing Councils in Local Administration’ in cooperation with the Information and Research Center – King Hussein Foundation (IRCKFH). […]

Covid-19 is not only threatening people’s health, but also exacerbating the situation of those who were already marginalized. Around the globe, inequality is growing. Gender and sexual minorities in particular are in more danger than before the virus hit them. People are losing their jobs without any social security. They’re being excluded from healthcare and […]

Government has been urged to direct farmers to pay farmworkers in United States dollars to mitigate the continuous erosion of wages through inflation. This follows a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) reached on 9 July 2020 that purports to increase farmworker wages by almost 100% but still leaves the wages way below the poverty datum line.

Op-ed by Eco Matser*   The Sustainable Development goals on energy speak clear: universal access energy and clean cooking by 2030 (SDG7). But the current efforts are still lagging several steps behind the specific needs of the communities and are not enough to achieve energy access for all, especially clean cooking solutions. Numerous studies have […]

Hereby Hivos presents its Draft Annual Report over 2019. In addition to the programmatic highlights, the report also contains the provisional annual accounts. The definitive annual report 2019 unfortunately has not yet been finalized. The improvements in our financial administration that started last year were largely realized in the first half of 2020, but the […]

We will not win the COVID-19 pandemic without trust July 29, 2020 By Stephanie Muchai, Country Engagement Developer East Africa, Open Up Contracting Program ‘Transparency and openness of governments helps people to trust that institutions will deliver for them.’ These are the words of the late Bob Collymore when he reflected on the sources of distrust between citizens […]

Government and Centralizing Gender’ in Mahes July 29, 2020 By Shara Jazzar Within the framework of the “Decentralizing Government and Centralizing Gender in Jordanian Municipalities” project implemented by the Higher Population Council (HPC) in cooperation with Hivos and funding from the Dutch MFA, the final consultation meeting was held with members of the municipal […]

Earlier this month, Hivos received a grant agreement from the European Union (“Team EU”) for a new program called ACTION – Active Citizens Building Solidarity and Resilience in Response to Covid-19. It will support vulnerable populations affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia for the coming two years. Hivos and partners will target marginalized and […]