Celebrate the Open Up Contracting Program and our partners with us September 1, 2020 2020 marks the last year of a unique five-year-long strategic partnership between ARTICLE 19, Hivos, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs coming together in the Open Up Contracting program. Under the ministry’s Dialogue and Dissent program, alliances were forged with organizations around […]
In a bid to promote the full and effective participation and leadership of women and girls in political and societal decision-making in Zimbabwe, Hivos Southern Africa in partnership with the Embassy of Ireland in Pretoria, launched the She Leads project on 19 August 2020 in Harare, Zimbabwe. By Audrey Mutasa The She Leads project, which […]
African Space Makers and Apes in Space make their big debut African storytelling is re-emerging as a form of creative expression as it embraces modern techniques to celebrate culture, freedom, food, fashion, bustling African cities and the diversity of African people. A new generation of African creatives is going against the norm and freely expressing […]
After an extensive selection and learning program, Climate Tracker and Hivos awarded 12 emerging young climate and energy journalists with an investigative fellowship to uncover the stories behind Africa’s renewable energy challenge. The fellowship is the last – and due to the COVID situation, changed – stage of the in January launched energy journalism competition […]
Estos últimos meses hemos estado discutiendo sobre la posibilidad que brindan las contrataciones para la inclusión de grupos de la sociedad que se encuentran vulnerados o marginalizados. En el caso de los países de la región latinoamericana, el mercado de contrataciones públicas es clave para el desarrollo sostenible e inclusivo.
ILDA has researched a selection of cases and experiences related to civic participation and inclusion (specifically women) in Latin America, in order to learn about its development and implementation.
A week after Beirut and its population were hit by massive explosions at a warehouse at the city’s port on August 4, everyone is still trying to come to terms with the scale and impact of the disaster. The explosions damaged large parts of the city, killing more than 200 people, injuring over 6,000, and […]
Press Release Nairobi, 11 August 2020-Statistics from the UN indicate that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have had their genitals mutilated – suffering one of the most inhumane acts of gender-based violence in the world. Reverend Timothy Njoya, a retired Minister of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa and a leading […]
As We Face New Challenges, Open Gov Champions Step Up August 10, 2020 Guestblog from Open Government Partnership by Paul Maassen In early 2020, OGP started looking for new candidates to fill three seats in the OGP Civil Society Steering Committee. The list of candidates this year was particularly strong and we are grateful to […]
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.
Technology might change agricultural practices in Zimbabwe for good, once COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns have ended. This emerged when a women’s entrepreneurial training program was almost derailed because stakeholders couldn’t do required site visits on farms due to stringent lockdown rules. Drone technology came to the rescue, doing the work faster and more efficiently than otherwise would have been possible with human visits.