Annual Report 2024
We proudly present our Annual Report 2024! 2024 was a year in which Both ENDS and partner organisations worldwide faced an extremely challenging context. But despite these challenges, we've achieved quite a lot, together with our global partner network.
That partner network for sure has proven its importance. For example, together with other members of Drynet - a network of organisations working in dry areas - we've attended the UNCCD's annual conference to make the voices of local groups heard in important international decision-making spaces. And with our Communities Regreen the Sahel programme, we've helped form a powerful movement throughout the Sahel that counters further desertification and land degradation in this region.
Trade and investment
At the same time, decades-long cooperation and mutual capacity development has led to an effective campaign of Kenyan organisations, that led to termination of the Dutch-Kenyan Bilateral Investment Treaty. And later in the year, we gathered with 5- participants in Entebbe, Uganda to rewrite the rules of the global investment regime. The Civil Society Forum on ‘Aligning Investment Policy Frameworks to Climate and Sustainable Development Goals’ resulted in the groundbreaking Entebbe Declaration, a unified call from participating civil society organisations for transformation of the investment system.
So despite a difficult year, in which governments were reneging on their commitments to multilateralism, authoritarianism was on the rise and the Dutch government announced massive cuts in funding for international cooperation, we stayed strong.
Whilst we found ourselves fighting to preserve hard-won progress on urgent issues like action on climate change, deforestation, corporate accountability and gender equality, we also realised that we've actually learned a lot from partners, including about their strategies for sustaining what are often very difficult, long-term struggles for environmental and social justice.
We now know: Together, our voices are stronger.
So despite the circumstances, we've been able to celebrate many positive results in 2024. You'll find our best stories and main achievements in our full Annual Report below, or take a look at our Annual Report website, featuring our best stories from 2024!
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Annual Report 2024
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External link / 28 december 2020Submit your memory for our anniversary website
No matter whether you're working with us for 30 days of 30 years: we'd like to hear from you! What do you think about Both ENDS? What was/is our added value to your work? How did/do we cooperate? What is your oldest, or your dearest, memory? What do you wish for the years to come? Submit your contribution for our 30-year anniversary!
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Publication / 29 mei 2019
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Publication / 19 juli 2021
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Publication / 31 mei 2018
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News / 9 oktober 2025Both ENDS launches new strategy: “Connecting people for an environmentally just world”
With great pride, Both ENDS launches today it’s new strategy for the coming 5 years: “Connecting people for an environmentally just world”. This strategy was developed in close collaboration with our partner network, which has always been, and still is, the foundation of our work. Together, we strive for an environmentally just world in which people and ecosystems thrive and all people can live a life of dignity.
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Publication / 9 oktober 2025
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News / 16 januari 2025DetoX: Both ENDS leaves X
Both ENDS, along with many other Dutch organisations, is leaving social media platform X. In January, we will join the campaign ‘#DetoX’ by De Goede Zaak and Stem op een Vrouw. We hope that many organisations will follow us so that the hate, misinformation and the undermining of democracy on X are given less space.
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News / 19 maart 2024Both ENDS - Remarkably Special
At Both ENDS, we hold our own responsibility, self-direction, an open feedback culture, and personal development in high regard. Chaos, you might think? Not at all, it leads to an effective way of working with much enjoyment. The flat organizational structure that Both ENDS has been implementing since 2016 is founded on collectivity. In this, you can also see our aim of 'Connecting people for change' reflected.
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News / 9 november 2023Both ENDS welcomes new leadership: Annelieke Douma and Karin van Boxtel are interim directors!
Both ENDS has two new interim directors from November 9: Annelieke Douma and Karin van Boxtel. After 15 years, Danielle Hirsch hands over the directorship. She is currently standing for election to the GroenLinks/PvdA list. Annelieke and Karin will lead Both ENDS during the transition period to a new director of Both ENDS. Together with the board and the organisation, the new directors duo is full of energy to get to work in the coming months.
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News / 10 januari 2023In Memoriam: Irene Dankelman
With pain in our hearts we say farewell to Irene Dankelman. She was pioneer in the field of gender and environment and one of the founders of Both ENDS.
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Video / 31 december 2022Let's work together towards a green, just and healthy 2023!
At Both ENDS, we were happy to finally be able to meet many of our partners again in 2022. Although digital meetings are here to stay, they will never beat a live encounter every once in a while where we get to know each other's contexts, learn from each other and motivate and inspire one another.
But be it live or online, together we will work towards a green, just and healthy 2023!
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External link / 24 augustus 2022Supporting civil society to work freely and safely (Annual Report 2021)
Both ENDS aims to ensure that civil society can work freely and safely to influence decision-making related to ecosystems, environmental justice and human rights. In many places around the world, the space for civil society organisations to operate is shrinking. Repression, harassment and violence against environmental human rights defenders – our partners among them – is on the rise.
