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Hivos is proud to present the Advocacy Toolkit: a guide towards transparency and accountability in public contracting through people-centered and evidence-based advocacy.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.” […]

potential, the STAWISHA approach May 27, 2019 Why the STAWISHA approach? A realization of the personal barriers keeping women from participating fully as leaders in their community was a path that that led the Women Empowered for Leadership (WE4L) program into finding ways to support women’s emotional and social well being through […]

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.