Region: Southern Africa
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Hivos launches Urban Futures: youth action for inclusive, climate-resilient urban food systems
Urban Futures will operate in intermediary cities in Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, supporting young people to drive more inclusive, climate-resilient cities and urban food systems.
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Boosting the sustainability of the arts in Zambia
Together with the National Arts Council of Zambia (NAC), Hivos organized a workshop to help creatives, artists and lobbyists think of new critical ideas for the sustainability of the arts in Zambia. Their views were also used in formulating Zambia’s National Arts Policy. The workshop fell under Zambia’s Creative Industries Recovery Strategy (CIRS) and was…
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Terms of Reference: VAAM project end-line evaluation
With funding from the European Union, Hivos is implementing a three-year project titled ‘Voices and Actions for Accountability in Malawi’ (VAAM). Contract title: VAAM End-line Evaluation Terms of Reference: Please find all information, including work plan, timeline and deliverables in the ToR. Location: Lilongwe, Malawi Organization: Hivos Email: sa-hub@hivos.org Deadline: January 19, 2023 The overall…
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Riding along on the African Crossroads’ “Dala Dala”
The African Crossroads gathering returned this year with an engaging two-day event held in Harare, Zimbabwe. While many participants were able to attend in-person, an even larger part of the audience from across Africa connected online. African Crossroads is a community of future-oriented African thinkers and doers that meets once a year. The Crossroad’s gatherings…
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Promoting regional collaboration for youth-led advocacy
The core purpose of the Regional SRHR Fund is to improve access to high quality SRHR information and services for adolescents and youth in all their diversity as underserved populations.
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Human Rights Day: Raising awareness around the devastating impacts of gender-based violence
By Nana Zulu (Regional Director Hivos Southern Africa) The last few days have been a hive of activism, raising awareness around the devastating impacts of gender-based violence (GBV) and the needed actions to ensure its eradication. Key in ensuring this becomes a reality is addressing GBV and its debilitating impacts on women and girls. More…
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Local leadership at the center of just climate action
By Lizwe Chitanganya (Hivos Southern Africa Communications Officer) and Melony Chisanga (Kalemba Multimedia) The just-ended United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, offered an occasion to mobilize and lobby for solutions to the various global climate crises that we face. Hivos attended the conference in a bid to be part of the various…
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Contextual analysis on the age of consent for adolescents’ access to SRHR in Malawi
The Regional SRHR Fund developed a Malawi Age of Consent contextual analysis with the aim to support the undertaking of an evidence-led advocacy process by focusing on age of consent barriers to adolescents’ access to SRH services in Malawi.
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Five questions for human rights activist Teddy Munyimani
Teddy Munyimani is a human rights activist and Free to be Me Community of Action facilitator in Zimbabwe. We sat down for a chat to get a behind-the-scenes look at his activism and his role in the program.
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Promoting adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services
Through the Regional Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (R-SRHR) Fund, Zambia Youth Platform (ZYP) conceptualized the “Enhanced Youth Action Project” aimed at enhancing adolescent access to SRHR information and services.
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Ending child marriages among girls with disabilities
In Zimbabwe, one in three girls is married off before they reach the age of 18. Most of the causes of child marriages are preventable and are caused by a myriad of interlinked factors.
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Hivos publishes new paper: More climate finance to locally-led solutions
This paper underlines why money should flow to the local level and showcases promising examples of locally-led climate solutions. It shows ways for international donors and funds, as well as for intermediaries, to increase and secure the effective flow of financial resources to the local level.
