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International Open Data Day 2019 is upon us: Let’s celebrate!
International Open Data Day 2019 is upon us: Let’s celebrate! February 28, 2019 Open Data Day (ODD) 2019 is right around the corner, on Saturday, 2 March 2019! Don’t know what it is? ODD is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the 9th time in history, groups from around the…
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AWCFS: Kenyan flower sector to work on guiding principles on business and human rights
Every morning when her alarm rings at 4.00 am, Beatrice Aseyo* gathers strength to face the long and challenging day ahead. Before she leaves for work in the nearby flower farm, Aseyo has to manage her domestic chores which include preparing her two-year-old daughter before dropping her off at a nearby day care in Karagita…
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New publication on how inclusive finance boosts access to off-grid energy
Today, IIED and Hivos launch a new publication that explores new ways to attract more finance for off-grid solutions in hard-to-reach areas. The policy briefing shows how policymakers, financiers, civil society and the private sector can leverage ‘inclusive’ financing models by using public finance to unlock the private investment to provide off-grid systems to marginalized…
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Call for Proposals: Production of Open Contracting Videos
Call for Proposals: Production of Open Contracting Videos The Open Up Contracting program is seeking a video production company that can produce 3 high quality videos, no more than 2 minutes per video. The videos will focus on 3 cases in 3 different regions where the program takes place: Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa,…
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Research Calls: Join Hivos in strengthening public procurement
Two calls for proposals: Research consultancy for open contracting Are you interested in doing research? Do you believe in the importance of transparent data? And, do you want to improve public procurement worldwide? Here is your chance to join Hivos’ Open Contracting program. Open contracting is a process in which a variety of stakeholders, including…
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Call for Proposals: Grants for piloting investigative partnerships
Call for Proposals: Grants for piloting investigative partnerships February 26, 2019 Background Over the last decade civil society organizations in the field of transparency, civic engagement and accountability are increasingly using data and technology for analysis, engagement and to create evidence for advocacy. Likewise, investigative journalists are increasingly using data for investigations to back up…
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Tracing an “ARC” between MSMEs and artisans in Lebanon and the business community
Within the Alliance 2015 consortium, Hivos organized the first networking event of the ARC program at Smallville Hotel in Beirut on February 8, 2019. The ARC Program, funded by the Dutch foreign ministry, fosters the economic inclusion of vulnerable communities by providing coaching and counselling to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). It also connects…
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“Ms President” contest: looking for leaders, not beauty queens
Hivos’ Women@Work Campaign is partnering in a Kenyan TV reality show with Media Focus on Africa. The show’s aim is to strengthen women’s leadership qualities. It premiered on January 30 in Nairobi, and some 70 women contestants are now vying for the title of Ms President. “Women lead even without knowing they are leaders,” notes…
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Fair pay, a thorny issue in flower farms
Cynthia*(34) was overjoyed when she got a job at a flower farm in Limuru. She had been searching for over two years and chances kept getting slimmer as unemployment in Kenya continued to rise. There was a caveat though from her new employer: she had to find a place to leave her two-year old daughter…
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Hivos East Africa partners in a TV reality show to strengthen women leadership
The Women@Work Campaign is partnering in a Kenyan TV reality show with Media Focus on Africa. The show’s aim is to strengthen women’s leadership qualities. It premiered on January 30 in Nairobi, and some 70 women contestants are now vying for the title of Ms President.
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A dinner event for the future of food
Chefs from around the world served dishes made with tropical fruit and other exotic ingredients to celebrate the transformative power of sustainable, diverse, and healthy diets during the One Planet Network II Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems. Learn more about our participation during the SFS Conference of One Planet Network. Read…
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‘Connecting the world to stories that matter’
World Press photo exhibition makes its mark in Dar es Salaam ‘A picture paints a thousand words’; this is a statement that many artists and visual enthusiasts have begun to identify with in recent times. This is one of the many reasons, the World Press Photo exhibition 2018 made its mark in Dar es Salaam…
