Day two On day one at the Sustainable Energy Forum for East Africa (In Kigali, Rwanda) there was a lot of chat about challenges facing the energy sector including of course, the money. On day two, the programme got deep into the status of financing and scaling up investments into sustainable energy in East Africa. United […]
Open Up Contracting and Adaptive Learning March 20, 2018 Open contracting is a relatively new agenda for Hivos and ARTICLE 19 as well as for many of our local partners. It’s important to acknowledge that the Open Up Contracting programme and its partners are in a joint learning process together. We test and learn from […]
Indonesia: Transparency in government procurement March 19, 2018 This blog appeared first in Bahasa. You can find the original version here. Written by Agus Sunaryanto, Vice Coordinator of Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) Government procurement transparency Indonesian President, Joko Widodo has on several occasions stressed the importance of utilising information technology in the procurement of goods […]
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) need to undergo fundamental shifts in their organizational communications culture to benefit fully from social media technologies, according to a guidebook recently published by Hivos Southern Africa with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Zimbabwe. According to the guidebook, the rapid growth of social media use […]
From global movements like #MeToo to the Women’s March, one thing has become clear: women can no longer be ignored. In this month- during and after International Women’s Day, Hivos East Africa joins the rest of the world in shedding a spotlight on women who are rarely celebrated for their boldness and resilience in advocating […]
During the week of 8 March – International Women’s Day – Hivos is sharing stories of some of the amazing and powerful women we support worldwide. This year’s theme is: “Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives”. Connie Tinoco is a woman farmer in Rocky Point, a town on the southeast Caribbean coast of Nicaragua […]
The annual International Women’s Day calls for a PressforProgress on gender stereotypes, visibility of women, and celebration of women’s achievements. In the area of energy entrepreneurship, women often have to work twice as hard to show their worth and do not receive the credit they deserve for being innovative change makers. Hivos’ partner ENERGIA supports […]
About Hivos Hivos is an international development organization that seeks new solutions to persistent and emerging global issues. With smart projects in the right places, we oppose discrimination, inequality, abuse of power and the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. Our primary focus is achieving structural change and impacting lives. We do this through cooperating […]
Do you want to know who we partner with in Asian countries? March 3, 2018 Do you want to know what these local frontline organisations are doing to champion greater transparency of public contracting processes and reduce corruption? Have a look at the videos below to get an impression of some of our partners and […]
Lea esta noticia en español. Photos by Mynor Hernández, Capiusa. Over 40 human rights and international cooperation organizations and Guatemalan State representatives gathered on February the 13th lo launch the campaign “Here is where we remember” (Aquí se recuerda, in Spanish), an initiative aimed at commemorating human rights victories in Central America. The project is […]
Hivos in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe, Hivos Impact Investments and SEED are holding a three day bootcamp to get more social entrepreneurs involved in delivering high quality open source seed products to small holder farmers. The three day Disrupt!SEEDS! event from 28 February to 2 March 2018 at the Gallery Delta in Harare is a business […]
Hivos East Africa’s Green and Inclusive Energy Programme and the University of Nairobi’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SOJ) on February 21, held a roundtable with the aim of increasing quality and frequency of reporting on renewable energy in Kenya. The discussion attracted approximately 200 participants and drew speakers from different stakeholders in the renewable […]