This grant intends to realize meaningful youth involvement and leadership in adolescent SRHR research, as well as increase adolescent and youth capacity, participation and leadership within the broader SRHR discourse.
By William Chilufya, Voices for Just Climate Action Program Manager in Zambia Zambia has been experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change for the last three decades – including an increase in frequency and severity of seasonal droughts, rising temperatures in valleys, flash floods, and major changes in the growing season. Recently, I joined a […]
As we celebrate Women’s Month, which comes with the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March 2023, it is also an occasion to celebrate a commitment made by Zimbabwean political parties ahead of this year’s Harmonized Elections. Every five years, Zimbabweans take to the polls to elect a President, along with Parliamentary and local […]
By William Chilufya, Voices for Just Climate Action – Country Engagement Manager As Hivos joins the World in commemorating this year’s International Women’s Day, whose theme is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality,” the story of Violet Malama, an entrepreneur, farmer and activist comes to mind. Violet has reached many important milestones in the […]
Our Resource of Open Minds program is specifically aimed at diversifying dialogue and debate through the disruptive power of art in order to bring about structural social change.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]