Both ENDS presents new strategy towards 2025
Both ENDS has a new 5-year strategy. It is set up along three strategic pathways that together lay the foundation for our vision to become reality: 1) An empowered and influential civil society; 2) Systemic change in public institutions that prioritizes people and planet; and 3) Transformative practices are the norm.
The Both ENDS strategy has been developed in close cooperation and dialogue with a diverse group of partners and allies –NGOs, community-based organisations, small grants funds, women's organisations and social movements. In March 2019, 25 partners shared their insights on key dilemma's and gave our rough plans direction.
Curious about the result? Download the Both ENDS Strategy 2020-2025 here.
Both ENDS 5-year strategy in relation to Covid-19
We had barely finished writing the strategy when in the beginning of 2020 the global Covid-19 pandemic broke out. Nevertheless, Both ENDS will continue to follow the pathways as described in our Strategy. Our main strategic objectives and Theory of Change touch on key challenges that are still there in this pandemic. This has been confirmed by our networks: the consequences of the Covid-related health and economic crisis call for a systemic answer. This answer will partly come from civil society actors that have knowledge about key challenges of our global economic and trade systems and experience in green and inclusive infrastructure, sustainable food production and ecosystem restoration.
Both ENDS strategy and short-term Covid responses
Unprecedented amounts of public funding will be made available to mitigate the economic impacts of the pandemic. Part of these budgets will be spend through International Financial Institutions, and it is of utmost importance that is done in a fair and sustainable way, by allowing local actors at the decision-making table and assuring that they have access to these development funds.
In addition, all indicates that governments tend to decide to maintain fossil fuel structures with the newly available funding. Public pressure at all levels and in all countries is needed to ensure that this trend will be halted and that public investments will be used to kick-start the energy and food transition we all know is necessary.
So the Covid-19 crisis confirms our strategic direction and - rather than changes - increases the urgency of our work together with our networks of civil society actors. Connecting people for change remains an apt description of Both ENDS's work: together with partners we create a more sustainable, fair and inclusive world, in times of corona and beyond.
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Annual Report 2020 website
On our special website you find the best from our Annual Report 2020. Read the stories from 2020 about the work we did on building a strong civil society, bringing about systemic change and promoting transformative practices, together with our partners around the globe.
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External link / 28 December 2020
Submit 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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External link / 19 June 2020
Annual Report 2019 website
Our Annual Report features some of the best stories from 2019 about the work we did together with our partners around the globe.
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External link / 29 May 2019
Online Annual Report 2018
In 2018, we worked closely with our partners around the world to achieve more sustainable and inclusive societies. Our joint projects and activities vary from regreening drylands to protecting wetlands, from capacity development at the community level to advocacy at United Nations level, from policy to practice. Read all our stories from 2018 in the Both ENDS Annual Report!
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External link / 29 June 2018
Online Annual Report 2017
Take a look at our online Annual Report over the year 2017!
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Online Annual Report 2016
Take a look at our online Annual Report over the year 2016!
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Blog / 20 May 2020
'Comfortably staying home with the family': three women in Latin American villages about the Covid-19 crisis
"The Covid-19 crisis is affecting everyone, but in different ways. In some countries, people are feeling the consequences less than in others, in cities the problems are completely different to in the countryside, and men are suffering from the restrictions totally differently to women. Some of the organisations that we work with in Latin America talked to rural women about the effects of the crisis on their everyday lives and what they are doing to keep their heads above water. Below is a small selection from these conversations (freely translated from Spanish) to give some idea of the situation women in remote areas are finding themselves in, of the enormous solidarity they are experiencing and of the solutions, which largely lie in stimulating local food production." - Danielle Hirsch
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Blog / 12 May 2020
Post-corona economy: five recommendations for the Dutch government on achieving the SDGs and the goals of the climate agreement
By Daniëlle Hirsch and Maria van der Heijden
The social debate on the Netherlands' role in the global economic crisis is now in full swing. At the centre of the debate is the question: how can we compensate for the setbacks affecting the Dutch economy without losing sight of efforts to make international trade and production chains more sustainable? We – Both ENDS and MVO Nederland (CSR Netherlands) – are particularly concerned about what we hear in these discussions about human rights, climate and the environment. That these are 'luxury problems' which we have no time to address at this time of crisis. And this, while the Corona crisis is showing us just how closely our current economy is irrevocably intertwined with the pollution of the planet and is making people all around the world more and more vulnerable. In short, we have to make our economy more resilient to such shocks. And that means committing ourselves to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the goals of the Paris climate agreement. We therefore address ourselves first and foremost to the government.
