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The Knowledge Programme consists of different thematic programmes which each have a regional focus. In Africa, our activities take place in East and in Southern Africa. The Civil Society Building programme has a Southern Africa programme focussing on Civic action for Human Rights accountability and Civic action for poverty eradication. The Promoting Pluralism programme is developing its programme in East Africa together with the Cross-Cultural Foundation in Uganda.
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Beyond Economics - East Africa
This dialogue will be an occasion to bring together African networks involved in research and advocacy on African based network looking at the impact of the systemic crises on African development. The launch/dialogue will invite participants to reflect on the performance of Southern and East African economies in relation to the current multiple crises (financial, food, fuel, care). It will ask participants to look at the way the crises are playing out in Africa, specifically at the socio-eco...› read more...
Tags: Eastern Africa
Date: 2 February until 3 February 2010 Location: Dar-es-Salaam. Tanzania
Tags: Eastern Africa
Date: 2 February until 3 February 2010 Location: Dar-es-Salaam. Tanzania
Post-conflict Participation
This project delves into the possibilities for civil society participation in post-conflict settings. It focuses on forms of civic engagement and mechanisms that facilitate interactions between local level state institutions and social actors in the specific context of a post-conflict situation. It concentrates on how violent conflict has affected different forms of social organisation. It will single out the crucial social-political factors for engagement, and the characteristics of state i...KP “Smallholders Agency” lands in Africa
The initiating team of “Smallholders Agency” (from Hivos, IIED and Mainumby) went to Uganda and Kenya from 20 to 28 November. The aim was to find out how the knowledge program can become embedded in East Africa and to find African members for the Learning Network.
Dialogues of knowledge in action
The Civil Society Building Knowledge programme supports the Kabarole Research Center in Fort Portal, Uganda to elaborate a new initiative that seeks to bring together politicians, policy makers and communities to jointly engage in development dialogue and knowledge generation. Edit Tuboly, Programme Officer at HIVOS, is currently visiting the region and participated in an open space meeting. An impression
Mobilizing social justice - Unlocking the potential for structural change
On the 23rd and 24th of November, the Hivos-ISS knowledge programme organizes a conference on 'mobilizing social justice; unlocking the potential for structural change'
How I see the Uganda riots
‘My argument is very simple, by virtue of demographic dictates; any development discourse that leaves out the voices of young people is likely to backfire’. Ambrose Kibuuka, linked to the Pluralism Knowledge Programme through the Yogyakarta Summer School, argues for more serious engagement with Ugandan youth.
Post-Conflict Participation Blog
Marjoke Oosterom (Institute of Development Studies, UK) carries out her PhD research on civic participation in local government structures in Northern Uganda in cooperation with ICCO and Hivos. In July and August she is in Uganda for a preliminary scoping visit. In this blog she tells about her experiences based on interviews carried out in the capital and in Gulu and Kitgum districts.
Contemplating civil society
On 29 and 30 July, a delegation of the knowledge team from HIVOS and ISS visited South Africa. The purpose of the visit was to attend a stocktaking workshop of the ongoing research projects in the region and to prepare for a civil society conference, scheduled for November this year. The visit took place amidst a wave of strikes and (violent) protest in several townships of Johannesburg and Cape town, allegedly caused by public dissatisfaction about public service delivery and stalling wage...
