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Our Year in Review
Our Year in Review (2024) As we strive for an inclusive society, our commitment to promoting citizen inclusion in civic engagement, philanthropy, community development, economic growth, and associational life remains unwavering.Reflecting on 2024, we celebrate a year of remarkable growth and scaling. We have strengthened our systems, expanded our teams, and solidified our position as
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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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SIVIO Connect Newsletter May to August 2024
Welcome to our 2nd Issue of SIVIO Connect Newsletter for 2024. Our SIVIO Connect Newsletters are designed to give you a quick recap of the key activities the SIVIO Institute team has been involved in during the season under review. This issue is focused on May to August activities. We launched our SIVIO Connect Blog
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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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Global Fellowship-Advancing Inclusive Democracies
The challenges faced by citizens in an attempt to achieve inclusive democracy are not only experienced on the African continent but they are collective challenges experience worldwide. Our Programs Manager, a 2023 Charles F. Kettering Global Fellow, was part of a week-long meeting (17-21 June) with members of the 2023 Global Fellowships Cohort on Advancing Inclusive Democracies.
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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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SIVIO Connect Newsletter January to April 2024
We took a moment to pause and reflect at the beginning of 2024. The reflection was mostly influenced by the need to make sure we remain focused and responsive to emerging challenges on the ground. One of our first reflections focused mostly on what we think the year ahead should be about. Our Executive Director’s
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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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