Region category: East Africa

We Lead is a new, innovative and powerful program that aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women. It focuses on four specific groups of young women: women living with HIV, women living with disabilities, those facing discrimination, and those affected by displacement. The program puts these young women […]

Terms of Reference: Free to Be Me process manual documentation Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values. Together with citizens and their organizations, we aim to contribute towards just, inclusive and life-sustaining societies where people have equal access to opportunities, rights and resources. We work in partnership with others in the Middle […]

Hivos, alongside Akina Mama wa Afrika, Slumdwellers International, South South North, Fundación Avina and WWF is currently implementing the Voices for Just Climate Action program. The program aims to ensure that by 2025, local civil society and underrepresented groups will have taken on a central role as creators, facilitators and advocates of innovative climate solutions. Their inclusion is crucial for effective and lasting climate […]

The Champions for Climate Justice grant is a short-term grant structured to enable the participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and individuals active in the climate space (with focus on youth, women, and Indigenous people) in COP 27. Region: Kenya Office: Hivos East Africa Application deadline: August 1, 2022 Background Hivos, alongside Akina Mama wa […]

Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values. Together with citizens and their organizations, we aim to contribute towards just, inclusive and life-sustaining societies where people have equal access to opportunities, rights and resources. We work in partnership with others in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America on three impact areas: […]

By Churchill Ongere, Project Manager, R.O.O.M East Africa Across East Africa, creatives are inventing new stories and re-imagining old ones. On a daily basis, musicians, film makers, animators, fashion designers, and illustrators demonstrate one of the most unique things about human beings – our need to expressive ourselves – and to do so freely. However, […]

By Saida Ali, Global Manager of Hivos’ Free to be Me Program They set my aunt’s house on fire I cried the way women on TV do folding at the middle like a five pound note. Later that night I held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where […]

Women’s History Month is about celebrating bold voices, visible and invisible, in the women’s rights movement. It’s a time when we shine a spotlight on women pathfinders pushing for equality – trailblazers contributing to a just and fair world. But most of all, Women’s History Month is about women’s vital contributions to humanity. We’d like […]