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Expertise
Development aid, capacity building, poverty alleviation, sustainable development.
Region
32 countries spread over Asia (West, South and South East) , Africa (East and Southern) and Latin America (Central America and 3 countries in South America) and at the international level.
Reasons to participate
Hivos participates in Natureandpoverty.net because Hivos wants to improve its impact based on a better insights in themes relevant for green development. By exchanging knowledge and information Hivos aims to contribute to those insights and also to learn and improve its own insights and capacities to handle these themes. Hivos is interested to bring in its own knowledge and its network of partners and expects other network members to also work with us on specific challenging themes and together create innovative next steps.
Contact
Main contact person: Carol Gribnau, head Bureau Sustainable Economic Development or Willy Douma, team Sustainable Production (sed@hivos.nl). Tel.: +31(0)703765500 - web: www.hivos.nl
Themes:
- Poverty alleviation through access to resources, capacity development and institution building;
- Access to financial services and enterprise development;
- Empowerment of people;
- Sustainable production and marketing;
- Access to renewable energy sources.
Ecosystems:
Hivos has not selected specific ecosystems. Support could be provided to organisations in these ecosystems. Main area of support is agro-ecosystems.
- humid forests
- dry ecosystems (deserts, savannas, dry forests)
- mountain ecosystems
- river basins and wetlands
- agro-ecosystems
Additional Information:
Hivos is a non-governmental organisation, guided by humanist values, that wants to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world where citizens, women and men, have equal access to resources, opportunities and markets and can participate actively and equally in decision-making processes that determine their lives, their society and their future. Hivos works in 32 countries with 800 partner organisations. In 2008 Hivos disbursed 100 million Euro with a staff of 150.
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