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Knowledge & Change spotlight - social movements and citizenship
How do social movements work? How do their actions influence social change? And how do outside actors influence their dynamics? In this session, Kees Biekart, Rosalba Icaza and Jose Manuel Valverde offer an inside perspective, adding new pieces to the puzzle of social movement complexity.
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: small holders, markets and globalisation
The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today we highlight the roundtable entitled Perspectives and knowledge in the realm of small holders, markets and globalisation. This workshop will focus on how smallholders and their organisations use knowledge and make effective choices, in the realm of markets and globalisation. It builds on the morning plenary session and the side event held on 28 September 2010 on producer agency and the dev...
Knowledge and Change Spotlight: New Media in West Asia
The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today we highlight a workshop hosted by the Hivos/University of Amsterdam Knowledge Programme Civil Society in West Asia. With the events surrounding the ‘Twitter revolution’ in Iran last year, attention has shifted towards the meaning of new media in activist networks in authoritarian settings. The Web has become a new space for analysis and researchers are starting to map issue networks of dig...
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Launch Development Journal 53.3
Despite the global economic crisis can we sustain local economies? Development keeps trying to understand that critical question in the sequel to Development vol 53 no 3 ‘Beyond economics’ Development on ‘Sustaining Local Economies’ Development (vol. 53 no 3). In partnership with the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos), the journal takes a dual approach: one to continue the debate on beyond economics bringing in new voices and building on the dynamic discussio...
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today a preview of ‘Indonesia: Mapping and interpreting diversity’.
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: When civics go 'governance'
The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today we highlight a workshop hosted by the Hivos/ISS Civil Society Building Knowledge Programme. Reflecting on recent research projects in a number of African countries, the programme analyses what has happened with ‘civics gone governance'.
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Michael Edwards
The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today we wish to highlight Michael Edwards, writer on the global role of philanthropy and civil society, who will give the opening address to our conference on September 29th.
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Unusual Suspects
The 'spotlight' session series provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today, we highlight a discussion session on civil society trends, new actors and unusual suspects - co-hosted by the Hivos/ISS Civil Society Building knowledge programme and the Hivos/UvA 'Civil Society in West Asia' programme.
Knowledge & Change Spotlight: Authoritarian regimes
The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today we would like to highlight the parallel session on the upgrading and resilience of authoritarian regimes & international context and Steven Heydemann who extensively wrote on the phenomenon of upgrading authoritarianism.
Presentations and Notes on the workshop Microfinance at Risk
The workshop aimed to asses and discuss the impact of global crises on microfinance institutions.The panel consisting of Reynaldo Marconi, FOROLAC FR, Frank Streppel, Triodos Investment Management, Johan Bastiaensen, University of Antwerp and Harry Clemens (Hivos) discussed the impact of the financial crisis, economic crisis, and in context of development in the South: food crisis. Read the notes and the presentations. A paper by Reynaldo Marconi adressing the main theme will soon be publishe...