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Our Team is part of the APN Assembly 2024
The APN Assembly serves as the flagship event of the APN, bringing together members, their partners, and field practitioners. Its purpose is to facilitate the sharing of experiences, new knowledge, and collective reflections on the development of Africa, while; we collectively promote the voice and action for African philanthropy. https://assembly.or.tz/ Our team is in Victoria Falls…
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The African Citizens Watch team expands into the region
The SIVIO Institute team is in South Africa for the first-ever regional meeting of African Citizens Watch. This meeting is the first with our growing regional team that will be working to enhance the tracking of the African Citizens Watch platform. We will be tracking government performance in South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. We…
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Latest Developments on Land Tenure Reforms in Zimbabwe
Tendai Murisa, 9 October, 2024 Yesterday (8 October 2024), the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) announced a major shift on land tenure in fast-track farms. According to the announcement, GoZ intends to issue a bankable form of title to land where the owners of the land can borrow against the land and sell the land or…
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Africa Giving: Empowering Communities Through Generosity
In the first quarter of the year, Africa Giving launched an ambitious fundraising campaign themed “100 for US$100.” Our goal was to have 100 individuals each donate a minimum of US$100 to raise a total of US$10,000. By the end of the campaign, we successfully raised US$9,100. The campaign began by reaching out to individuals…
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Corruption, Price Instability And Unemployment- A Collection of Policy Brief Publications From The Policy Advocacy Lab
SIVIO Institute began the Policy Advocacy Labs (PAL) experiment in 2020. This a collective learning process that takes ordinary citizens through several steps to identify an issue or problems and craft potential policy solutions for that problem. We did this to broaden the level of participation of Zimbabweans in the policy-making process. Our desired outcome…
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Our Participation at the 2024 ECOSOCC Citizens Forum – 18 – 19 July 2024 – Accra, Ghana
From the 18th – 19th of July 2024, SIVIO Institute joined other civil society organisations from the continent in Accra, Ghana for the 2024 ECOSOCC Citizens Forum. The Forum was held as part of the weeklong #ECOSOCC20 Commemorative Activities – as ECOSOCC celebrated 20 years of existence. The African Union’s Economic Social and Cultural Council…
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Embracing Pause for Insightful Futures: A report back from the latest convening.
From the 24th to 26th of June 2024, the Ford Foundation’s Southern Africa office held its first partners meeting since the Covid-19 pandemic. The convening’s theme was Embracing Pause for Insightful Futures. The event was attended by at least 200 participants from the partner organisations in the region. SIVIO Institute was among the partner organisations that attended the meeting with the Executive Director, Dr Murisa, sitting on a panel on the first day’s session. The panel discussed the coalition and…
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Meeting of Youth and Women Activists on Youth and Democracy
Our Centre for Civic Engagement is meeting with the 16 women and youth activist that are part of our Building a Concerted Movement of Women and Youth on Democracy and Development Project which is taking place today the 4th of July, 2024. This project began in March with a kick-off meeting for all participants in…
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‘Philanthropy and Higher Education’ Webinar With Lilly School Of Philanthropy
We have just participated in a webinar hosted by The University of Indiana Lilly School of Philanthropy. Our Executive Director (Tendai Murisa) joined the panel to discuss “Higher Education and Philanthropy in Sub-saharan Africa.” His talk centered around the role of high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) and the impact they have had in promoting education especially higher…
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A Night of Fundraising
“Africa’s time, to gather African resources” is the theme that underpinned our Hundred for US$100 Africa Giving campaign. The campaign was focused on identifying 100 individuals and companies that would give US$100 each in support of any of the 108 organisations listed on the Africa Giving platform. To bring the campaign to a close, a…
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