Region: East Africa
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Its time for nature: How are we disposing renewable energy products?
By Wilkista Akinyi Junior Programme Officer – Green Energy Transition to renewable energy is recognized as a low-carbon emission pathway to development. Moreover, decentralized renewable energy (DRE) solutions are encouraged in off-grid communities and displacement settings to accelerate energy access and poverty eradication. It therefore goes without saying that DREs have gained market penetration in…
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E-procurement and Tanzania’s public procurement transformation
The month of June 2020 marks two years since the introduction of Tanzania’s e-Procurement System (TANePS), a platform that seeks to migrate all public procurement processes online. Hosted by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA), it supports procurement of goods, works, consultancies, non-consultancies and disposal of assets. June 2020 has been marked as the deadline…
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Covid-19: An unprecedented moment in an unprecedented time
2020 will go down in history as the year that put a hold on daily life around the globe. We have an opportunity to make sure it will also be remembered as the year in which the fight for more inclusive, transparent and green societies gained a new and inspired push. The actions that we…
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Partner with Hivos in freedom of expression
Hivos East Africa announces a new call for proposals for our audio visual content production grants. Targeting a myriad of artists only in Uganda and Tanzania, the second phase of the Resource Of Open Minds (R.O.O.M) program, will continue to support a new generation of makers from the creative and cultural sector to produce alternative…
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Hivos’ African Crossroads album is out now
We’re thrilled to announce the release of a 10-track album that was made during last year’s edition of African Crossroads. KIUNGA, the Swahili equivalent of “crossroads”, features music that represents a contemporary blend of Afro urban music, from classical Taarab to Afrofusion and the thumping energy of East African dance hall. The album was launched…
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Action is needed in the fight against systemic racism
This week, George Floyd’s funeral service was held in Houston, in the United States. The videos of his killing at the hands of police officers have ignited worldwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism. From Cape Town to Minneapolis and from Sao Paolo to Amsterdam. Hundreds of thousands of people are expressing their anger,…
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Including women’s energy needs in Tanzania
A women’s burden All these years Helena had been inhaling smoke while cooking on an open fire. So something had to change. And it did. In 2012 Helena and her husband made a decision that transformed their lives.
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Electrifying Nepal
How Hivos’ civil society partners contribute to the growing energy access rate in NepalOur partner CRT/N provided training to sensitize municipalities about the many benefits of energy access. This soon resulted in allocated budgets and work plans for energy access in nine municipalities, largely for domestic clean cooking systems.
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Implementing sexual harassment policies on flower farms
Together with partners, Hivos created the first anti-sexual harassment policy championing safe work spaces for workers in East Africa’s horticultural sector
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Hivos hosts a webinar to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on women workers in the horticultural sector.
We must ensure that the stimulus packages being introduced reach women workers. The COVID-19 global pandemic has completely destabilized the world and the magnitude of its effects depends on how long social distancing, work from home, curfews and lockdowns will be in place. The pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and brought to a standstill…
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Sustainable food stories fellowship
Hivos and IIED, together with Climate Tracker, are happy to launch the Sustainable Food Media Fellowship to fund journalists from Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia to work on investigative reports. We are looking for young journalists from Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia who want to write incredible stories about the production of food and access to sustainable…
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The proposed clean cooking tax means more illnesses
Over the past few years working on the Green and Inclusive Energy programme, I have been privileged to hear from Kenyans about their experiences with clean cooking, or lack of. In 2017, as part of Hivos East Africa’s collaboration with the County Government of Kajiado to establish a policy for renewable energy for the county,…
