Short Intro

Tags: Worldwide , Knowledge programme

Together with local organisations in developing countries, Hivos seeks to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world in which citizens -women and men - have equal access to the resources, knowledge and opportunities for their development. Apart from providing financial and political support for local civil society organisations, Hivos is active in networking, lobbying and knowledge integration at the national and international level.

In 2007 Hivos started to develop a knowledge programme to address some of the complex challenges it faces: how to understand and innovate support for civil society building, how to promote pluralism in times of growing intolerance? The development sector needs new knowledge and, more specifically, appropriate knowledge to tackle specific knowledge gaps.

 

Ad hoc financing of knowledge creation is not enough, so Hivos is dedicating considerable resources to the development of knowledge on issues imperative to the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) and the development sector at large.

 

The main five themes are:

 

* Civil Society Building LINK

 

* Promoting Pluralism LINK

 

* Civil Society in Closed Societies LINK

 

* Smallholders Agency in the Globalized Market LINK

 

* Digital Natives with a Cause? LINK