Projects
The Knowledge Programme consists of an overarching programme that aims at integrating outcomes of the thematic knowledge programmes and stimulate the debate on knowledge integration practices. Hivos actively seeks partnerships and aims to build networks, building capacities of knowledge actors (including Hivos) and by dissemination and sharing its knowledge both in the North (and the Netherlands in particular) and the global South.
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...
Beyond Economics
SID and Hivos work together to stir the global debate on the financial and ecological crises. On 29‐31 October 2009 academics, development practitioners and activists met in New York for the launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’ and the policy seminar ‘Responding to the interlocked financial, climate and care crises’. Subsequently a meeting took place in The Hague entitled Beyond economics: collective responsibility for sustainable livelihoods. The next meeting will be held early 201...
Development Policy Review Network
The Development Policy Review Network is a network of development experts and policymakers in the Netherlands and Belgium who aim to reduce the gap between science, policy and development practice. To that end the DPRN organises and supports processes aimed at creating informed debate and synergy between the various sectors. Hivos is involved in two DPRN trajectories entitled Gender Mainstreaming and Value chains, inclusion & endogenous growth.
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...
Professorial chairs
We give support to professorial chairs at Dutch universities, namely the extraordinary chair of Paul Hoebink at CIDIN together with Oxfam Novib and the chair of Saskia Wieringa at the University of Amsterdam.