Sounds of wisdom overflowing Zanzibar
Hivos is one of the main sponsors of the Sauti Za Busara Music Festival in Zanzibar, Tanzania. This year, the festival took place between 9 and 13 February 2011. Monique Doppert, Project Officer Culture, ICT & Media, reports.
Culture as a vector for development?
Every week, Mike van Graan writes about arts, culture and development in 'The Cultual Weapon'. In this week's edition, van Graan discusses the contribution of culture for sustainable development and the achievement of national development objectives and internationally agreed development goals.
Highlights African LGBTI conference
Last week participants from 20 African countries shared views on several issues during the conference ‘African Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity’. The central role of religion and spirituality in the lives of African LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and intersexed) was one of the first observations.
Rights-based versus Market-based Development: A false dichotomy for small-scale Farmers?
After a very insightful first provocative seminar on smallholders and the ‘pro-poor markets’ agenda in The Hague in September 2010, the second seminar ‘Rights-based versus Market-based Development: A false dichotomy for small-scale Farmers?’ in this travelling series initiated by Hivos and IIED is being organized in Stockholm on March 3rd, 2011 (12.30-16.30 European Central Time).























