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Innovate4Climate conference
EVENT: From 4-7 June, Innovate4Climate will be held in Singapore. The conference is the preeminent global event on climate finance, climate investment and climate markets. It is a platform that brings together business, finance, policy and technology leaders to accelerate action on financing climate-smart development. In 2019, I4C will focus on green finance, clean cooling,…
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Global conference: Scaling up energy access and finance in least developed countries
On 30-31 May, UN-OHRLLS* and GEIDCO** organize the Global conference on Scaling-up Energy Access and Finance in Least Developed countries in Beijing, China. The conference will focus on concrete measures to accelerate energy access and enhance financing for sustainable and modern energy (SDG7). Together with civil society partners and journalists from Nepal, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and…
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Report Launch: Beyond Fire: How to achieve electric cooking?
Cooking with renewable electricity is now cost-competitive with other cooking alternatives in most developing countries, 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…
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Kenya’s Makueni County joins a global initiative on local procurement reforms
Makueni County ‘s adoption of the open contracting approach in 2018 signaled its commitment to improve efficiency, participation and openness in public procurement. Today, the county has made a step closer in transforming its public procurement processes by joining a movement of local governments and municipalities globally from Phillipines, Indonesia, Argentina, Ghana, Mexico, Columbia, Bolivia,…
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Global conference: Scaling up energy access and finance in least developed countries
On 30-31 May, UN-OHRLLS* and GEIDCO** organize the Global conference on Scaling-up Energy Access and Finance in Least Developed countries in Beijing, China. The conference will focus on concrete measures to accelerate energy access and enhance financing for sustainable and modern energy (SDG7). Together with civil society partners and journalists from Nepal, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and…
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Open Up Contracting, Open Up Health
Open Up Contracting, Open Up Health 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 people to live a healthy life with dignity. Choosing the life of an activist Oscar Guzman lives with HIV. This means he…
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Open Up Contracting, Open Up Water
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…
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Beyond fire: how to achieve electric cooking
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…
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Open up Contracting, Open up Mining
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.”…
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AWCFS: All is not lost for women in lucrative flower business
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.
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Report launch: Beyond Fire: How to achieve electric cooking
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…
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Hivos East Africa and partners at the Open Government Summit 2019
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…
