Amid the global shift away from civil society as an international norm, punctuated by the closure of USAID in early 2025, EU SEE members predicted an impending perfect storm of conditions that would seriously threaten the infrastructure of global civil society. Now, one year later, we have the EU SEE data to prove it. The […]
Governments, activists, and advocates are preparing for the UN’s 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. This year’s focus is on improving access to justice for women and girls. But what does this mean for women and girls in Zimbabwe, where gender equality exists on paper but not […]
We are proud to share the inaugural edition of the Connect, Defend, Act! (CDA!) program’s Year in Review. For a program like ours, that advances civil liberties and fights efforts to restrict (digital) civic space, 2025 was a year of great risk and pressure brought by profound global shifts in civic space. We saw authoritarianism gain ground, polarization deepen, and institutions designed to protect accountability put to endless tests. Yet it is […]
Efforts to combat climate change too often sideline the very communities hit hardest by the crisis and who have contributed the least to it. This injustice was the core idea of the Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) program. Now that VCA has concluded after five years, Job Muriithi and Winny Nyawira from Hivos reflect on its […]
A new “youthquake” emerged worldwide in 2025: Gen Z took to the streets in a series of youth-led protests organized via TikTok, Instagram, and Discord. The demands of these movements deeply resonated with each other: governments’ corruption, inability to deliver public services, and lack of accountability, as well as deepening income inequality. In many countries, […]
Hivos is hiring an advocacy officer for the Walking the Talk program who is able to translate feminist values into inclusive and effective advocacy strategies and practices.
We are hiring a global advocacy officer for the Walking the Talk program. We are seeking a dynamic, strategic, and highly organized individual to lead our advocacy and communications work after our flagship conference, Financing for Feminist Futures (F4FF), in Madrid in October 2025.
As a lifelong feminist and now communication professional, I was delighted when I was asked at the last minute to join Hivos in Madrid this month for the Financing for Feminist Futures conference. Before leaving, my colleagues gave me a crash course in the current state of “feminist financing.” They explained that time and again, […]
The feminist funding landscape is experiencing seismic shifts and challenges. In this challenging context, we’re organizing the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference to develop strategies to mobilize support for gender equality financing.
In 2025, digital rights advocates, technologists, journalists, and civic leaders from around the world came together for RightsCon in Taipei, Taiwan. As one of the world’s leading forums on human rights and technology, RightsCon offered a critical space for reflection and strategy, especially for organizations navigating the closing civic space in Southeast Asia. For the […]
Security forces in Nepal used lethal force against protesters calling for the lifting of a social media ban and an end to corruption and bad governance. At least 51 people have been killed and more than 1000 injured, some critically, as a result of the violence. The authorities, in coordinating with the military, are currently […]
Against a backdrop of increasing social exclusion and economic hardship faced by LGBTIQ+ communities, more than 100 business executives, civil society leaders, and diplomatic corps members convened at the Free to Be Me Economic Empowerment Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya. The three-day event, hosted by Workplace Pride, Hivos, and the Netherlands Embassy in Kenya, was […]