Hivos provides financial and political support to local private organisations in more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and South-Eastern Europe. The activities of these organisations centre around the five Hivos policy themes: economy and credit facilities, culture and the arts, women and development, sustainable development, human rights and AIDS.



In order to be eligible for funding the applicant organisation needs to operate in Hivos countries or region; and its objectives need to be in line with general Hivos policy and sectoral priorities. It should be a secular (i.e. not religion-related) organisation; and a non-governmental organisation.



Funding is available for the following areas: economy; environment and sustainable development; arts and culture; human rights; HIV/AIDS; and gender, women and development.

Environment & Sustainable development

• Organisations that develop alternatives and put them into practice: sustainable production methods, sustainable consumption patterns and behaviour.
• Organisations that countervail unsustainable developments threatening people's livelihoods, e.g. deforestation, mining, pollution, industrial agriculture.
• Organisations that adopt an integrated approach, e.g. fighting for the rights of the neediest people to use the environment, while keeping an eye on the sustainable management of water, soil and biological diversity.
• Organisations that broaden the basis for the sustainable management of natural resources by forming strategic alliances.

Human Rights

• Organisations that promote basic political rights:
• Organisations that promote the rights of specific groups
• Organisations that address key factors underlying human rights violations

HIV/AIDS

• Prevention, awareness, information
• Lobby, advocacy, influencing policy
• Organisation building, network development, communication
• Emancipation and sexuality

Gender, women and development

• Women's organisations that promote the rights and interests of women:
• Mixed organisations that promote gender equality in their programme activities and within their own organisation. Support is aimed at creating conditions within the organisation for a genuine process of change, also in the longer term.

Arts & Culture

• Artistic production
• Cultural and artistic exchange
• Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
• Cultural infrastructure
• (member) organisations of artists
• Economic or educational services for the Arts & Culture sector
• Organisations that provide a podium for artists
• Capacity building initiatives
• Research and critique of the arts

ICT

• Gaining access to the internet
• Producing and publishing Southern "content" on the world wide web
• Developing and enhancing own ICT capacities
• Using networking and collaborative technologies
• Applying e-commerce and e-business models
• Campaigning for free and unrestricted "yber rights for all"

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