Open Up Contracting, Open Up Water May 29, 2019 Hivos believes people should have the freedom to challenge their governments and influence the established order. Access to information and open data helps communities to demand basic services. Water is life “Water is life, and we cannot live without water.” Grenda Nyangaphiza from Chinkhwiri, Malawi, gets […]
Cooking with renewable electricity is now well within the range of cost-competitiveness of other cooking alternatives, concludes a new report called Beyond fire: how to achieve electric cooking by Hivos and World Future Council. This is a significant improvement from three years ago when the two organizations studied this for the first time. Achieving sustainable cooking is one […]
Open up Contracting, Open up Mining May 27, 2019 Hivos believes people should have the freedom to challenge their governments and influence the established order. Access to information and data allows us to do just that. Speaking Up “We, the Tagbanuas of Narra, are entitled to have a voice in how our land is used.” […]
The Women@Work Campaign remains at the forefront of advocating for the implementation of women labor rights that include maternity protection, equal pay, fair distribution of labor and decent working hours.
Cooking with renewable electricity is now well within the range of cost-competitiveness of other cooking alternatives, concludes a new report called Beyond Fire: How to achieve electric cooking by Hivos and World Future Council. This is a significant improvement from three years ago when the two organizations studied this for the first time. Achieving sustainable cooking is […]
Session: storytelling for public contracting reforms Delivery of quality goods and services is paramount to attaining social transformation in any country. Proper roads, hospitals, schools, electricity, food, medicine among others are the cogs that are necessary to enhance the quality of life of citizens. This year’s theme at the Open Government Partnership: participation, inclusion and […]
Today’s High Court ruling against the petitions seeking to decriminalize Section 162 (A, C) and 165 of the Kenyan Penal Code is a huge step backwards from the fulfilment of human rights for all. These sections – remnants of Kenya’s colonial-era laws – consider homosexual acts a felony punishable by up to 14 years of […]
Stop Child Labour (coordinated by Hivos), UNICEF Netherlands and Save the Children the Netherlands welcome a new opportunity to contribute to the elimination of child labor. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that this new and unique Alliance will receive €35 million to implement their new program “Work: No Child’s Business”. Their […]
Governments, businesses and civil society organizations have made tremendous strides in bringing affordable and clean energy to more people in recent years, but this progress has been largely uneven and must be accelerated in order to leave no one behind, says a new collection of policy briefs compiled by the multi-stakeholder SDG 7 Technical Advisory […]
Uganda is famous around the world for its richness in terms of biological diversity. Whether one is in Northern or Central Uganda, chances are you have access to a greater variety of food than your parents or grandparents once did. But even as the offerings become more diverse, the global diet as a whole – […]
The Hivos program “Women, Human Rights and HIV,” implemented in collaboration with ICW Latina, was positively rated with an ‘A1 performance,’ which is the highest possible rating given by its donor, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. During a three-year period, the program succeeded in helping women draw up a regional agenda […]
Sunday was Mother’s Day but all the mothers had precious little to celebrate despite horticulture being a high export, most vibrant and diverse sector in Zimbabwe’s agricultural industry.