Partner in focus (Overview)
Ombetja Yehinga Organisation
AIDS deals harsh blows to societies. Take a look at Namibia: the virus is causing collective mourning and is punching a growing hole in the work force. The hope lies with the new generation of young people. They are the ones who must stem the tide of the disease through safe sex and rebuild their country. Ombetja Yehinga Organisation helps them to achieve this goal.
Prodecoop
Nicaragua
has the perfect climate for growing coffee. But the chain from growing to selling is long. For small-scale farmers, this road is both too long and too complex. Hivos partner Promotora de Desarrollo Cooperativo de las Segovias (PRODECOOP) opens this road to farmers so that they can escape poverty.
Red Financiera Rural
Micro-finance has boomed in Ecuador over the past ten years. The many dozens of small savings and credit cooperations and other micro-finance institutions do, however, need support and continued professionalisation.
SIAAP
The year is 1988. Thirty female sex workers from the Southern Indian town of Chennai are thrown in jail because they are hiv positive. When the case comes to court two years later, there are more than 800 hiv positive sex workers in prison in the whole state of Tamil Nadu. The court eventually orders their release. 'The attitude of the authorities was typical of the panic and the lack of information about hiv & aids when aids first reached India,' says SIAAP director Indumathi Ravishankar looking back. In the meantime this attitude has taken a 180 degree turn.
TaTEDO
A Tanzanian household needs 2,500 kilos of wood a year to cook with traditional fires and stoves. TaTEDO feels this is a waste. Many Tanzanians who live in the country cook on fires built between three flat stones. In the cities women tend to use non-insulated metal stoves which run on charcoal. 'In either case, the energy output is only 15%,' says TaTEDO director Estomih Sawe.
Tactical Tech
It doesn’t take Stephanie Hankey, director of Tactical Tech, long to answer the question when she is asked about the reason why Tactical Tech was set up. ‘In order to enable activists in the areas of human rights and social justice to use new techniques so that the effectiveness of their work is increased.’ Does that sound vague? In practice it is not.
Y.A.A.ICT-D
If your voice is not heard, you will not be acknowledged, says Kenneth Msiska, founder and director of Young Advocates for the Advancement of ICT-related Development (Y.A.A.ICT-D). His organization has proven that mobile phones and political radio programmes can give rural people a voice, especially women.
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