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    Across the world, 2019 was a year of protests for women’s rights and gender equality. From the Chilean anti-rape anthem performed worldwide to women leading protests in Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq, these women and their movements successfully used creative content and digital technologies to demand rights and recognition. As did the Hivos-supported women’s empowerment campaign […]

    February 3, 2020

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    Together with Climate Tracker, Hivos will be training and sending six journalists to cover the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Rwanda, this May (26th-28th). We are looking for six young journalists from Africa who want to make an impact in their countries by publishing about energy and help shape one of the most important debates of our […]

    January 27, 2020

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    Change sometimes is in the hardware – it’s in the structures, frameworks and institutions.  And we tend to focus largely on these shifts, so that culture shifts in good governance can go unrecognized, unnoticed. In Kenya, meaningful proactive disclosure of information is not only a constitutional aspiration; it’s also the dream for any access to […]

    January 27, 2020

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    You’ve probably heard it by now. We need to revert to consuming more of our traditional foods in an effort to diversify the food we are consuming and also because their nutritional benefit is undefeated. As part of Hivos on-going advocacy in Sustainable Diets for All Programme, together with our partners Building Eastern African Community […]

    January 23, 2020

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    Vincenzo Cavallo aka Dr. Faras is the director and co-founder of Cultural Video Production and Cultural Video Foundation. In 2012, Dr. Faras bought a Double-Decker Bus and began a collective creating many collaborations between different types of people such as visual artists, photographers, event managers, videographers and producers. Today Dr.Faras has become a point of […]

    January 23, 2020

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    Hivos is pleased to announce the second Colourful Workplaces Conference on 29 and 30 April 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Colourful Workplaces Conference is Africa’s leading conference on diversity and inclusion and takes place biennially. The conference brings together thought leaders and key decision makers to share ideas and inspire inclusive African societies. Their main […]

    January 15, 2020

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    Governments can easily win or lose citizens trust and confidence depending on the consistency of public service delivery. This entails timely available, accessible, appropriate and acceptable delivery of public services, goods and works. Promises of public service delivery are mostly captured in election promises popularly called the social contract between citizens and their national or […]

    December 19, 2019

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    Opening up Makueni’s procurement systems December 19, 2019 On December 9 2019, Anti-Corruption Day, in Kenya one message was clear: the fight against corruption needs to be innovative because corruption is likewise becoming more inventive each year. The occasion was marked in Makueni County by leaders from across Kenya who gathered to celebrate strides made […]

    December 19, 2019

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    The private screening of the first-ever interactive virtual reality (VR) series on creative cities was screened at The NRB Bus on Friday 13, December 2019 after its release Thursday 12, December 2019. Africa Space Makers (ASM) is an interactive 360 Mockumentary series on creative spaces and subculture in Africa produced by Cultural Video Production Ltd, […]

    December 17, 2019

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    The last week of November 2019 marked a major convening for the Open Contracting movement in Africa. The Local Open Contracting Initiative (LOCI) was held for the first time on 26 November 2019 along the side lines of the East Africa Procurement Forum in Arusha, Tanzania. LOCI is an initiative that fosters, ideas and linking […]

    December 17, 2019

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    Why we’re helping farmers protect their seeds from private control People have a right to define their own food system. This includes which seeds they use. Last week, farmers in Nakuru County, Kenya, celebrated the launch of “Ten rich, underutilized crops,” a publication and documentary that capture their efforts to promote and sustain the varieties […]

    December 5, 2019

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    Over the last two years, Seed Savers Network a social enterprise dedicated to improving seed access and agro-biodiversity conservation in partnership with Hivos East Africa has been researching and documenting crops that are under-utilised in Kenya. After months of research, documentation and analysis the findings from farmers’ as well as nutritionists were documented in a […]

    December 4, 2019