East Africa

The Journeys of Courage: Uganda booklet highlights how young women across eight districts are redefining what SRHR leadership looks like in their communities.

This booklet brings together powerful stories that reveal both the pain and the possibility within Kenya’s SRHR landscape.

The Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) program in Kenya partnered with 10 local civil society organizations. In this publication, we look at VCA’s impact and achievements.

The Resources of Open Minds (R.O.O.M.) program is a great example of how creativity can challenge the status quo. This is the program’s Annual Report 2024.

In this Final Evaluation Report, representatives from the Voice program’s country teams, grantee partners, and rightsholders reflect on the past seven years of program implementation.

Despite the challenges of 2022, we also saw positive developments. Hivos and its partners achieved successes in areas of gender equality and diversity, climate justice, and civic rights. A selection of these can be found in our Annual Report 2022.

The annual accounts are also included in this report.

This case study examines how the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights has built and supported a grassroots sub-regional youth movement to enhance young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including safe and legal abortion.

This paper outlines why money should flow to the local level by showcasing good examples of locally led climate solutions. It provides examples of several existing mechanisms that have been designed to increase participation, transparency and accountability as potential vehicles to channel much needed resources to these kinds of solutions.

The R.O.O.M program developed this Financial Management and Sustainability Toolkit to support creatives in East Africa in planning for and delivering financially healthy enterprises.

This research explores the utility and viability of digital technologies in the production and promotion of critical audio-visual content by creatives.