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Announcing the Hivos Fellowship
Hivos is pleased to announce the official launch of the Hivos Fellowship. At Hivos, we’re constantly looking for new ideas and strategies that can help us build a more just and fair society. So today we’re opening our doors to the creative and digital sectors, welcoming people who are pushing the boundaries in their field. Five…
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Balancing rights and trade: a tale of hypocrisy
Balancing rights and trade: a tale of hypocrisy February 6, 2020 Opinion by Jonathan Huseman, Hivos Advocacy Officer, and Jolien van der Vaart, Communications Officer. Last month, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) published an in-depth investigation into corruption and abuse of power in Angola: the Luanda Leaks. News agencies around the world started…
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The right to bodily autonomy
February 6 was set aside by the United Nations to create awareness on one of the sternest violations of the rights of girls and women, where communities seek to control their sexuality. The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was created to increase efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation. To commemorate…
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Hivos LEAD program in North Africa extended: 2020-2023
Hivos is proud to announce that the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted Hivos four more years of funding from its Local Employment for Development (LEAD) program. The main goal is to generate income for youth by creating sustainable jobs that offer decent work directly to young people. We aim to create 9000 jobs…
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Towards cities of integrity
Local leadership is a vital ingredient in our response to the climate emergency and essential to achieve the SDGs. Although many cities and local governments are stepping up to the plate, they face unique governance challenges, and demographic and fiscal pressures. Overcoming these hurdles requires innovation and collaboration among diverse urban stakeholders, underpinned by shared…
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Make data available, put them to good use
While it is technically challenging to disclose all contracting data in the Philippine government’s open data portal, the real aim is to make ordinary Filipinos aware of and understand the information that is there so they can participate better in nation-building
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Advancing new narratives about African women changemakers with art and digital technologies
Across the world, 2019 was a year of protests for women’s rights and gender equality. From the Chilean anti-rape anthem performed worldwide to women leading protests in Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq, these women and their movements successfully used creative content and digital technologies to demand rights and recognition. As did the Hivos-supported women’s empowerment campaign…
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Not a contradiction: Privacy and freedom of information
In making data on public contracts available to citizens, government agencies should not pit data privacy against the right to information because the two are not contradictory.
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Hivos and Climate Tracker launch energy journalism competition
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…
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Hivos and Climate Tracker launch energy journalism competition Africa
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…
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Hivos and partners host a food fair in Nakuru County
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…
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Meet Dr Faras who is exploring a new era of storytelling.
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…
