The LGBT movement in Peru

What are the dynamics of the Peruvian LGBT movement and what has been the influence of national and international actors in its functioning? This is the main question that Marten van den Berge, hosted by the Programme for Democracy and Global Transformation (PDGT) in Lima, will explore in the next 9 months.

Civic Driven Change – Emerging narrative, new practice?

Hivos has been part of the core group of Dutch private aid agencies that drive the emerging narrative of civic driven change. In October 2008, a first seminar explored the theoretical framework of CDC. Last week, ISS hosted a follow up seminar to explore the practice of CDC by examining a number of civic driven change case studies. In the words of Alan Fowler: ‘cdc needs to be bashed and questioned, in order to gain more robustness’ A lively series of debates followed. Civic Driven Change to...

Members of the Indonesia Regional Team

The Regional Teams of the Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme are country-based groups of academics and practitioners defining the objectives and the content of the programme. The team is led by the regional coordinator and her/his institution as the core partner of Hivos and Kosmopolis. For Indonesia this is the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta.

Pressure-cooking for progress

Knowledge is needed to effectively serve poor and marginalised groups by making grounded choices for strategies and projects, and to timely adapt to change. How can development organisations acquire this knowledge? Hire more consultants? Go to the university? Development organisations need to build their own knowledge base and their own strategies to make this base grow. Development organisations need more tools and interactions to drive their own, practice-based forms of learning. A key ele...

Innovation in Development Cooperation

The financial crisis clearly shows the need for innovations. On 14 November the Social TRade Organisation, STRO, organized a conference Innovation in Development Cooperation. At the conference representatives from the financial sector (bank representatives from ING, Rabobank and Oikocredit) together with development experts from PSO, Flying Doctors and Hivos discussed the need for, possibilities of and problems with innovations. It was concluded that the development sector could learn from...

Civic Driven Change

If states, markets and NGOs fail to bring about change and social justice, then who will? Can citizens come up with new perspectives on social change? Are civic driven changes a potential solution to global political problems? They might. In fact they are...

Value chain governance and endogenous growth

This two year process aims to improve the development and poverty reduction outcome of policy measures and development interventions in value chain governance. Activities include an academic and position paper write shop, set up of a digital library, policy review of intervention theories used by firms, NGOs and governments, and translation into intervention strategies through online discussion and an agenda-setting conference.

Apply now! International Summer School on Pluralism and Development

As part of the Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme, Hivos supports this Summer School for young academics and civil society activists from India, Indonesia and Uganda. Are you interested in learning more about human development theories? Did you always lack the time to reflect on your own work in development? Are you curious how you can contribute to the Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme? Apply now for participation in the Kosmopolis Summer School!