Archives: Impact Areas

Growing inequality and discrimination, coupled with political repression, are having a terrible impact on girls and young women, as well as youth with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. We support these groups in building resilient movements, and together we advocate for policies, laws and public services that advance equality for all. Here we look…

Increasingly, climate-related disasters – floods, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires – are devastating vast areas and killing or displacing hundreds of millions of people. The worst impacts are felt in the Global South, which has done the least to cause climate change. So Hivos is focusing on shifting funds, knowledge, and decision-making power to communities on…

In the regions where we work, we see a steady loss of civic rights and freedoms, the quick spread of disinformation and divisive rhetoric, increasing exclusion of marginalized groups, and a growing mistrust of democratic institutions. Hivos provides hundreds of human rights and environmental defenders, journalists, artists, and accountability campaigners around the world with practical…