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Renewed programme website
Renewed programme website October 17, 2017 The Open Up Contracting website has a new look and feel! The website features comprehensive information about Hivos and ARTICLE 19’s programme taking place in seven countries spread across Latin America, Asia and Africa. You can read about the programme countries, the pioneering partners and their ambitious projects…
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100 Days of Learning – final edition of Age of Wonderland
100 DAYS OF LEARNING is the 2017 programme – and final edition – of knowledge platform Age of Wonderland, a global learning programme initiated by Hivos and Baltan Laboratories in 2014. This year, innovators, scientists, engineers, artists, designers, social entrepreneurs and thinkers from around the world were invited to share stories and ideas gained from…
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Hivos member of Global Fund CRG Strategic Initiative
In its efforts to support the involvement of key populations, community-based organisations, and civil society in the response to Tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malaria epidemics, the Global Fund has selected a new group of Technical Assistance providers within its Community, Rights & Gender (CRG) Strategic Initiative. We are proud to announce that Hivos has been…
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Blog: Citizen monitoring matters to open data on procurement: A perspective from Nepal
Blog: Citizen monitoring matters to open data on procurement: A perspective from Nepal October 16, 2017 Written by Sarala Maharjan I have been involved in community-based monitoring for three years, so I was excited to start practicing our monitoring approach this year to open up procurement data about community development projects, such as roads, bridges, drinking…
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New Hivos and IIED film calls for life beyond maize in Zambia
A new six-minute film describes the cultural influences and policy challenges facing Zambia as the country strives to promote dietary diversity despite being heavily reliant on maize as its primary source of food. Although government policies aimed at improving access to sufficient and nutritious foods are in place nationally, inequality means many Zambians, and women…
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Wonder Woman of Waingapu: Born to be a Leader
Blog post by Amy Lumbal Gaol, communications officer Hivos South East Asia As the only female staff working at RESCO, a renewable energy service company established under the Sumba Iconic Island platform, Jetty Arlinda Maro, 26, has to work twice as hard as her male colleagues to prove her capacity. Unlike those men, she is…
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Personal Story: Never working anywhere else again!
It’s 6:00 am and it’s still a bit dark. In the distance, the peak of Mount Kenya can be seen just above the morning mist. You can hear the sounds of a family in a small wooden house. The Gichuki family is starting their daily morning ritual.
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Biogas: an alternative ‘powering’ lives
Globally, it’s estimated around 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity; Africa’s population alone accounts for almost half of that figure. Sadly, the use of traditional biomass as fuel for cooking and a reliance on expensive diesel-powered, polluting generators have been the norm in Africa. While it’s been argued that access to energy propels socio-economic…
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Today we speak as one
On September 22, websites of international NGOs and regional and local organizations all over the world turned their home pages blank. So did Hivos. We were protesting against the oppression of active citizens and organizations who want their voices to be heard, who want to gather or demonstrate peacefully. We went silent in solidarity with those…
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Freedom of expression under siege in Uganda
Hivos East Africa condemns the recent police raids on Action Aid Uganda, Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies (GLISS) and Solidarity Uganda. Ahead of the age limit debate in parliament, a series of raids, arrests, threats and intimidation of citizens and civil society organisations have continued to escalate the shrinking civic space in Uganda. The…
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Civic Engagement for Open Contracting – first lessons learned
Civic Engagement for Open Contracting – first lessons learned September 21, 2017 A reflection on the programmatic approach and the role of infomediaries to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability in public contracting and other public money flows. By Daniel Dietrich The Open Contracting programme of Hivos and ARTICLE 19 is a five-year programme (2016-2020) within…
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Journalists in Malawi, Zimbabwe Trained on Climate Change and Renewable Energy Reporting
Hivos Southern Africa partnered with ClimateTracker.org to train journalists in Malawi and Zimbabwe to effectively report on climate change and renewable energy. Climate Tracker is a global organisation focussed on supporting young journalists around the world to write game-changing articles on Climate Change and Energy. In the last two years, Climate Tracker has facilitated trainings…
