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Region category: East Africa

  • Call for Concept Notes: Production Grants (ROOM East Africa)

    call

    Hivos (East Africa) is seeking concept notes from young changemakers, creating culture and media productions and (interested in) contributing to critical dialogue, challenging and examining the status quo, social norms, and hegemonic power in society.

  • Call for Concept Notes: Amplification Grants (ROOM East Africa)

    call

    Hivos (East Africa) is seeking concept notes from registered artistic collectives, creative hubs, and groups of content creators in order to support the production of more consciously independent and self-sufficient makers reach a wider and more diverse African audience.

  • Together for gender justice at Women Deliver in Kigali

    News

    The Women Deliver Conference is a key opportunity for government leaders, scientists and activists to strategize for gender equality. Here’s where you can find Hivos.

    July 10, 2023
  • Clawing back of climate finance commitments a big loss for the Global South

    opinion

    Maimuna Kabatesi is the Global Program Manager of the Voices for Just Climate Action program. Read her strong plea on why diverting climate finance should never be an option.

    July 7, 2023
  • Making the energy transition just, equal and possible

    opinion

    By Tjarda Muller of ENERGIA While progress is being made, globally 733 million people still lack access to electricity and 2.4 billion people do not have access to clean cooking technology and fuels. These numbers show a considerable gap that has to be filled in the seven years left until 2030. The gender gap within […]

    July 6, 2023
  • Terms of Reference for consultancy to provide translation services

    call

    Our We Lead program is looking for services of a translation company/firm to aid in program communication and implementation of activities.

  • Climate justice badly needed by the people around Lake Turkana in Kenya

    blog

    Hivos was invited to visit Indigenous communities around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Vincent Mogaka, project officer for the Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) program in East Africa, saw firsthand how local communities remain neglected in the face of the climate crisis. Here’s his account of the visit. In the northern part of Kenya, […]

    July 4, 2023
  • Resourcing African LGBTIQ+ movements for success and sustainability

    opinion

    What can funders do to ensure African queer movements are resourced for success and sustainability in the face of well-funded global anti-gender/anti-rights movements?

    June 2, 2023
  • Call for Proposals – Voices for Just Climate Action program, Kenya

    call

    Hivos is looking to partner with Kenyan civil society organizations that will contribute to the goals of our Voices for Just Climate Action program.

  • A dark cloud hangs over Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality law

    News

    Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has assented to an anti-homosexuality law. The speaker of the country’s parliament made this announcement today, May 29, 2023. This comes as defiance to international pressure appealing to the President not to sign the law.  Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, but the new law goes much further in targeting […]

    May 29, 2023
  • Urban Futures unveils first lineup of transformative cities

    News

    Our new Urban Futures program is working at the intersection of urban food systems, youth well-being, and climate action. We’re happy to announce the program’s first five cities of operation.

    May 25, 2023
  • Call for Proposals: Capacity strengthening of youth-led organizations

    call

    These grants are aimed at supporting capacity strengthening and organizational development of youth led/youth-focused organizations to enable youth to gather and control the knowledge about their sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs and issues as well as to sustain their efforts over a longer period of time.

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