Region: Global
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Food, sisterhood and dreams
Nicole Szucs of the Hivos local office in Bolivia tells us how the Food Change Lab kicked off At the end of September, I attended the first session of the Food Change Lab held in Bolivia by the Hivos and IIED Sustainable Diets for All program. The participants formed a patchwork quilt of stories of…
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Jean Marc Sika: “The future of energy is green.”
Hivos East Africa’s Renewable Energy Program manager, Jean Marc Sika, was recently awarded the title of Monsieur le Grand Chancelier des Ordres burkinabè for his exceptional role in upscaling biogas and bio-digester technology in Burkina Faso. Hailed as one of the founding fathers of biogas in Burkina Faso, Jean Marc has shown astounding leadership, particularly…
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Biogas fueling an energy revolution in West and Central Africa
Fighting the effects of climate change topped the agenda at the Biogas Digester Conference from 2 to 4 October in Burkina Faso, attended by 250 energy experts from West and Central Africa. The eight participating countries agreed on their weapon of choice. They will adopt and upscale bio-digester technologies and improve collaboration to develop market-based biogas sectors.…
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Now is the time to be better safe than sorry!
Global warming of 2°C above pre-industrial levels is substantially more harmful than 1.5°C, according to the new report on global warming launched by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A mere two-degree rise in the average global temperature would significantly impact human life, the economy and the global environment. It would mean more severe and longer…
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Policing the Police
Fighting corruption with cartoons Makarao (Swahili slang for “police”) is a popular online animation series that follows the lives and antics of two fictional policemen in Kenya. The stories use sharp humor to focus on the many and often absurd ways policemen, especially traffic police, demand bribes and harass average citizens.
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Hivos expands SAFE coffee program to Mexico
Nearly 10,000 people in southern Mexico are to benefit from the new SAFE project “Transforming Mexican Coffee”. The SAFE Platform, coordinated by Hivos, is an alliance to support coffee and cacao smallholder farmers through climate-smart agricultural practices. For this project, Sustainable Harvest will join hands with World Coffee Research (WCR), the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture…
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Towards having women in influential roles in flower farms
Together with Akina Mama wa Africa (AMWA) and African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), approximately 55 flower farm workers (39 female and 16 male) have been trained as Trainers of Trainers (ToT) under the theme ‘Blossoming Women’s Leadership for Decent Work in the Eastern Africa Horticultural Sector’.
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Will you shape Africa’s future?
Are you an African innovator looking to shape the future of the African continent? Join Hivos this December when we will be launching the first edition of an exciting new initiative, “African Crossroads.” We are looking for daring entrepreneurs, artists, filmmakers, technologists, designers and futurists who would like to join the community that will be shaping…
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Shooting movies in a war zone
How we’ve supported Iraqi cinema – even under fire “When the film was screened everywhere and shown on Iraqi television eight times, people stopped me on the street and told me: ‘Thank you for this.’ It was really life changing for people – they still talk about it.”
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Hivos partners in Guatemala win big in the European Union
Hivos is very happy to announce that projects of two of our Open Contracting program partners in Guatemala have won the CivicTech4Democracy 2018 global competition. The projects are initiatives of journalism platforms Laboratorio de Medios (Media Laboratory) and Plaza Pública (Public Square), which have had great impact in Guatemala in recent years by playing a key role in the fight against…
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Stirring up the energy debate in Malawi
A journalist who is fueling clean energy conversations “I saw my mom suffer from severe coughing because she always cooked on an open fire. Years later, I realized how important it is to question everyday things that people in my country take for granted.”
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Hivos: 50 years of supporting “sparks of change”
By Paulo Villalobos Saborío for the Costa Rican news platform ameliarueda.com* In Latin America, the Dutch NGO Hivos supports causes related to human rights, protection of the environment and independent journalism. This year, Hivos is marking 50 years of support for the “sparks of change” ignited by frontrunners who have gained the confidence needed to generate…
