… A woman leader from Jordan January 28, 2020 Asia Yaghi has been unable to walk since she was a young girl. At school, the biggest challenge that she faced was that toilets were not equipped with adequate seats. As a result, she had to remain thirsty till she returned home. Her inability […]
s in Lebanon narrate their run-ins with gender-based violence in new AFE video January 27, 2020 By Laudy Issa “It’s been five years that I have been the subject of verbal harassment and public threats, rape threats, murder threats, vilification, character assassinations, phone calls to my family, phone calls to my mom,” said Lebanese […]
munity organizing January 27, 2020 By: Shara Jazzar In community organizing, teams are made of 7 or 8 persons. However, their commitment is crucial as its absence will have a negative impact on the overall work. What are the 4 Cs in community organizing? In order to ensure that a new member will […]
Together with Climate Tracker, Hivos will be training and sending six journalists to cover the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Rwanda, this May (26th-28th). We are looking for six young journalists from Africa who want to make an impact in their countries by publishing about energy and help shape one of the most important debates of our […]
ics in community organizing January 27, 2020 By Shara Jazzar According to community organizing principles, a strategic goal should be determined based on the vision. Then, a theory of change will be developed, followed by tactics. What is a tactic? A tactic means to use whatever resources and skills you have to achieve […]
dership in community organizing January 27, 2020 By: Shara Jazzar Community organizing relies on building a participatory leadership, which will act for change. For this sake, people need to be involved on the long term. How to build a participatory leadership team? First of all, individuals who share a common goal should be determined […]
nt (Malawi): Development of policy briefs January 27, 2020 Name of Consultancy Development of policy briefs from findings and recommendations of an institutional assessment of public institutions to implement and sustain the mainstreaming of gender equality in socio-economic development in Malawi. Overview Hivos is a Dutch development organization that seeks new solutions […]
tant (Malawi): Development of Policy Briefs January 27, 2020 Name of Consultancy Development of policy briefs from findings and recommendations of an institutional assessment of public institutions to implement and sustain the mainstreaming of gender equality in socio-economic development in Malawi. Overview Hivos is a Dutch development organization that seeks new solutions […]
Join us at the Sustainable Energy For All Forum in Rwanda and win an investigative reporting scholarship! The opportunity Together with Climate Tracker, Hivos will be training and sending six African journalists to cover the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Rwanda, this May (26th-28th). We are looking for young journalists from Africa who want […]
You’ve probably heard it by now. We need to revert to consuming more of our traditional foods in an effort to diversify the food we are consuming and also because their nutritional benefit is undefeated. As part of Hivos on-going advocacy in Sustainable Diets for All Programme, together with our partners Building Eastern African Community […]
Vincenzo Cavallo aka Dr. Faras is the director and co-founder of Cultural Video Production and Cultural Video Foundation. In 2012, Dr. Faras bought a Double-Decker Bus and began a collective creating many collaborations between different types of people such as visual artists, photographers, event managers, videographers and producers. Today Dr.Faras has become a point of […]
Opinion piece by Eco Matser For the first time, the world’s elites meeting this year at Davos have listed environmental issues as their top concerns about the next decade. The WEF’s annual Global Risks Report raises the alarm on increased extreme weather events, manmade environmental damage – including oil spills and contamination, major biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse […]