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Blog post by Andrés Méndez, Hivos Latin America Voices from Latin America were heard from November 11 to 14 at the Latin American Energy Organization’s (OLADE) fourth edition of Energy Week, in Lima, Peru. Women leaders spoke about what it’s like to live without access to energy, the challenges for women in the energy sector, and […]

“A Ugandan girl is always judged by whether she would make a good wife, not a potential member of the workforce,” says Leah Eryenyu, a professional feminist who’s fighting to improve the rights of women in the flower sector. “With a living wage women could flourish and take well-considered decisions about their lives.”

ommunity organizing November 27, 2019 By Shara Jazzar The second session of the community organizing course focused on one of its main pillars: storytelling. In that context, the women were introduced to the theory of American psychologist Jerome Bruner who discovered that people react emotionally to stories they hear, and their emotions can […]

the status quo: Why the Lebanese political system doesn’t elect women November 25, 2019 By Laudy Issa A newly-launched policy brief from Hivos WE4L partner Lebanon Support mapped out why the Lebanese political status quo was reproduced in the country’s 2018 elections, despite widespread citizen frustration. In May 2018, Lebanese parliamentary elections […]

One of the key barriers to delivering energy solutions for the rural and urban poor is the limited access to finance at local and national levels and insufficient targeted finance flows at the international level. Despite commitments from international development organizations, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and investors, specific options and mechanisms to channel the finance […]

For the International Labour Organization (ILO), decent work lies at the “heart of social progress” and it is in this same spirit that Hivos under the Women@Work Campaign has engaged in partnership with Rwanda Women’s Network to implement ‘Women Leadership Project in the Horticulture Sector in Rwanda’, that has also seen the set-up of several successful gender committees that have worked to empower women farm workers.