Region: Southern Africa
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Who owns civic space?
Magamba has turned into Zimbabwe’s leading creative organization, combining citizen journalism, art, culture and activism. Hivos is proud to have been one of its first funders.
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Our actions are our future: A zero hunger world by 2030 is possible
This year’s theme for the World Food Day comes at an opportune time signaling the need to act if we are to achieve our Zero Hunger World by 2030. In Zambia, we can clearly affirm that so many actions are being taken to accomplish this, but the question is: Is everybody on board? Are all…
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The true cost of maize production in Zambia
The true cost of food isn’t on the package Factors such as greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and soil erosion are not considered in today’s cost calculations of products and production systems. Nor are the effects these product and systems have on society and health. If such factors were taken into account, the true cost…
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Hivos supports the 15th Anniversary of Lake of Stars festival in Malawi
Hivos Southern Africa through its Malawi country office supported the fifteenth edition of the Lake of Stars Arts Festival held from 28 to 30 September 2018 in Salima, Malawi. The festival attracted more than 5,000 people including tourists from around the globe. Hivos in partnership with Lake of Stars supported the event through the Culture…
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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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The fallacy of recent “solutions” for African youth employment
Program development manager for social entrepreneurship at Hivos Southern Africa I’ve been to many conferences around the world to discuss youth unemployment in Africa. Ironically, I’ve seen very few African youth in attendance, let alone voicing their opinions and concerns on stage. Instead, migration and (Western) best-case models for job creation have been high on…
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Joint action needed to reform our food system
While participating in this year’s High-level Political Forum (HLPF), one thing became crystal clear to me. Come 2030, we will not have healthy and affordable food if we continue with business as usual. But no one institution can single handedly change the course of our food system. The key to ensuring a sustainable food system…
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We are what we eat
Changing the food system Allow us to take you to Indonesia, Bolivia, Zambia, Kenya and Uganda. In these countries, we’re getting street vendors, municipalities, cooks, farmers, activists and politicians to not only fight malnutrition in innovative ways, but also to slowly change the way the food system works.
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From flower picker to union leader
The remarkable journey of a young Ugandan woman Janepher became a hero to the workers, but to her fellow supervisors and management, she was a traitor – and it was then that the intimidation began.
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Getting Social Media to Work for CSOs
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) need to undergo fundamental shifts in their organizational communications culture to benefit fully from social media technologies, according to a guidebook recently published by Hivos Southern Africa with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Zimbabwe. According to the guidebook, the rapid growth of social media use…
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Seeds Are the Soul of Agriculture
Hivos in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe, Hivos Impact Investments and SEED are holding a three day bootcamp to get more social entrepreneurs involved in delivering high quality open source seed products to small holder farmers. The three day Disrupt!SEEDS! event from 28 February to 2 March 2018 at the Gallery Delta in Harare is a business…
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Hivos brings International Film Festival Rotterdam to Harare – live!
On 26 January, Zimbabwe – through Hivos Southern Africa – will become the first Sub-Saharan African country to live stream films from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). IFFR 2018, the 47th edition of the film festival, takes place from 24 January to 4 February 2018 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. IFFR offers a high quality…
