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Commentary, opinion, and stories from across the SIVIO network on governance, civic life, and development in Africa.
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Empowering Futures: Local Actions, Global Impact
Advancing Education and Youth Empowerment Philanthropy has been instrumental in advancing education and empowering Africa’s youth. By supporting scholarships, school infrastructure development, and teacher training programs, philanthropy has expanded access to quality education, particularly in remote and marginalized areas. These initiatives have empowered young individuals, enabling them to break free from the cycle of poverty
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A letter from the Philanthropy & Communities Centre Coordinator
Hello! My name is Shelly Satuku the Coordinator for the Centre for Philanthropy and Communities at SIVIO Institute. Welcome to our special issue on African Philanthropy. Our Centre for Philanthropy and Communities exists to foster philanthropy in its various forms across Africa. Our work initially focused on Zimbabwe, but we have since lunged into the
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Reimagine What Life Can Look Like on the ‘What If’ Series
The ‘What if’ series hosted by Tendai Murisa, which started in 2023 is back in 2024. The series is a collection of podcasts that ‘reimagines our being and life conditions’. Tendai Murisa hosts this podcast alongside Nonstiklelo Nzula. In this season of ‘What if’ we start with a conversation on the ‘Big Bet‘ talking about
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Laying the Groundwork for Small Business Successes, from Zimbabwe to Kenya
Originally Posted by Anne Stopper from the Mozilla Foundation: Laying the Groundwork for Small Business Successes, from Zimbabwe to Kenya – Mozilla Foundation The SIVIO Institute is a Mozilla IRL Fund Awardee. It has developed a tool to measure the effectiveness of financial inclusion policies aimed at Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) – a critical first
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Full blog – The Big Bet: Engaged Communities
The Big Bet 2024: Engaged Communities The discussion on the assets within communities is slowly disappearing from Development discourse, thanks to a preoccupation with state behaviour. Our big bet this year is on engaged citizens working collectively in communities and establishing associations are vital conditions for democracy and inclusive development to thrive. We will spend time trying
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The Big Bet – Engaged Communities!
Over the last six years we have worked in several African countries. We have observed that overall, governments are failing to meet the expectations and desires of the of citizens in most African countries. We analysed Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia as critical case studies regularly assessing the performance of their governments versus what their citizens
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The SIVIO Institute Relaunch of ZIMCITIZENSWATCH Platform
We are pleased to inform all our partners about the relaunch of the ZimCitizensWatch platform. The platforms’ relaunch on February 9, 2024, marks a significant milestone for us, because of all our platforms it is the one that directly links the actions of a government with the concerns or desires of citizens. As you know
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We’ve Published our 2023 Annual Report
On the 1st of February 2024 we published our 2023 Annual report. This report is a review of the activities we conducted in the 2023. The report demonstrates the progress we made since our inception in 2018. The volume of work we have undertaken has increased; our team has taken on more exciting work and
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Lessons Learnt: the policy advocacy lab experiment
Leveraging Advocacy Labs to Solve the Public Problem of (UN)-Employment Reflections by Matron Muchena Introduction I am an Associate at SIVIO Institute. My responsibilities include the day-to-day coordination of several activities within the Centre for Civic Engagement. In our centre, we have, since (26 August 2023) been experimenting with the idea of advocacy labs. The
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Africa Giving and Shared Responsibility
Last week on Friday, we SIVIO Institute launched our 2023 signature initiative – AfricaGiving. It has been a long and challenging but exciting journey to get here and there is still a long journey ahead. AfricaGiving is many things to different people, on the one hand, it is about our culture, and what defines us as a people. Bheki
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