Minaye flowers in Bishoftu (about 50 kilometers from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia) was, just like many farms, not immune to rampage and disruptions of day-to-day operations whenever there was conflict between staff and management. A year now, the farm has not had any riots. Not that there haven’t been disagreements between the workers and their employer, but because they now know that solving conflicts can be done so amicably.
The monthly wage of the lowest-paid farmworkers in Zimbabwe was pegged at ZWL213 in July, throwing that grade of workers into extreme poverty, surviving on less than 25 USD cents a day.
The publication of the Hivos Annual Report and Annual Accounts 2018 has been delayed because of changes to our reporting methods in 2018 that made the process more complex than usual. Hivos is implementing these changes to better respond to the increasing demands of external auditors, which have also contributed to the delay. We will […]
This factsheet gives a snapshot analysis of the state of ratification and reporting against regional and international instruments as well as information on the lived reality of women in the work force within these countries.
Stakeholders in the horticulture industry in Malawi have taken a major stride towards a collaborative approach to productive employment and sustainable enterprises. Dubbed the Change Lab, the concept seeks to bring players and interested stakeholders in the industry to discuss innovative ideas on how to work towards a living wage in the horticulture industry in Malawi.
By Caroline Wahome Access to experts is one of main challenges journalists are struggling with in their quest to publish stories related to food, the journalist have said. The members of the fourth estate had convened in Kampala, Uganda at a forum organized by Hivos under the theme “Positioning Media for policy influence of food […]
The Zimbabwe Agricultural Society (ZAS) will next year include horticulture as a category in the Agriculture Media Awards after excluding it by mistake from the inaugural awards held this year.
How more transparent public spending processes can improve communities’ needs in Indonesia
Ana Gabriel works for Hivos from Costa Rica, where she is a program development manager. Before she joined Hivos, Ana Gabriel was Vice Minister of the Presidency for Political Affairs in Costa Rica, where she focused on setting up dialogues with citizens. In this interview she shares what it was like to work for the government, what initiatives she is setting up as a program development manager, and why she thinks open contracting is so important in the region today.
The Ethiopian parliament on July 5, 2019 approved a draft Labour Proclamation (Proclamation) to replace what has been in existence for 16 years also known as Labour Proclamation No. 377/2003. The revised law has introduced a rule to regulate workplace sexual harassment and sexual violence.
Guest blog by Ann Songole and Bob Aston The silence could have easily been mistaken for inactivity except that there was a systematic production work in progress. On this particular day, ARTI Energy, a briquette manufacturing company in Salasala in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania had hosted 12 organizations that were attending a Hivos Green and […]
The current number of fires in the Amazon is one of the highest in recent years. Fires are more common in areas affected by deforestation because this land is often cleared for agriculture by using fires. But they’re not nearly as bad as this year. The Amazon rainforest, the largest in the world, is a […]