Technical Brief: Navigating Age of Access to SRHR Services in East and Southern Africa
The Regional SRHR Fund’s latest technical brief aims to support an evidence-led advocacy process by focusing on age of access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services for adolescents in selected Eastern and Southern African countries. By analyzing current legal and policy frameworks, the brief explores how age of access regulations impact the ability of adolescents and young people to secure essential SRHR…
Journeys of Courage: Uganda
The Journeys of Courage: Uganda booklet highlights how young women across eight districts are redefining what SRHR leadership looks like in their communities.
Journeys of Courage: Kenya
This booklet brings together powerful stories that reveal both the pain and the possibility within Kenya’s SRHR landscape.
Voices for Just Climate Action in Kenya
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.
R.O.O.M. Annual Report 2024
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.
Voice Final Evaluation Report
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.
Annual Report 2022
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.
Case Study: Promoting Regional Collaboration for Youth-led Advocacy
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.
Putting justice at the heart of climate finance
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.
Financial Management and Sustainability Toolkit for Creatives in East Africa
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.
The Utility and Viability of Digital Technologies
This research explores the utility and viability of digital technologies in the production and promotion of critical audio-visual content by creatives.
Intellectual property: a toolkit for creatives in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
This toolkit is a result of several interventions that have been carried out between 2017 and 2022 by Resource Of Open Minds (R.O.O.M) project at Hivos.
Boldly Queer: African perspectives on same-sex sexuality and gender diversity
This publication is a rich collection of articles, essays, stories and photographs that highlight a growing understanding of LGBT rights struggles and realities on the African continent.
Summary of Findings: Transparency gaps and milestones of funds allocated and utilised for COVID-19 response and recovery in Kenya
Summary of Findings – In 2021, Hivos East Africa with support from the European Union commissioned a study to assess the transparency gaps and milestones of funds allocated and utilized for COVID-19 response and recovery in Kenya.
Research: Transparency gaps and milestones of funds allocated and utilised for COVID-19 response and recovery in Kenya
Research: In 2021, Hivos East Africa with support from the European Union commissioned a study to assess the transparency gaps and milestones of funds allocated and utilized for COVID-19 response and recovery in Kenya.