We all have some form of contact with modern communications technology dozens of times every day. It now plays an increasing role in the everyday work of local authorities in South Africa.
This issue focuses on four demographic megatrends and the corresponding insights and policy recommendations for sustainable development of the world’s population.
This improvement was the result of successful cooperation between the GIZ Health Sector Programme funded by BMZ, a Bangladesh shipyard and the Bangladesh Health Ministry.
Friederike von Stieglitz, GIZ’s country director in Mali, reports on the situation in the country and on GIZ’s efforts to improve conditions for the population. The interview was conducted by Carola Frentzen of the German Press Agency (dpa) and is reproduced by kind permission of dpa.
The sustainable fishing initiative aims to develop a transparent and clearly understandable system that makes it possible for both consumers and businesses to compare different production certificates.
The latest issue of the GIZ web magazine Digital Development Debates is dedicated to the topic ‘Hunger’. The magazine also welcomed its 50,000th fan on Facebook.
In Bonn, GIZ and German Agro Action (DWHH) agreed to cooperate more closely in future projects abroad. The two organisations also plan to intensify knowledge sharing.
The power supply will soon be working again in Tanzania – and without interruptions. This is being made possible by GIZ’s State Office Lower Saxony and the Lower Saxony State Chancellery in cooperation with other partners.
EU tasks GIZ with providing logistical support for the European Commission’s Election Observation Mission to Jordan. The elections are scheduled to take place on 23 January 2013.
The unanimous view at the first Global Soil Week was that the issue of land and soil degradation is an urgent global problem that has so far failed to attract sufficient international attention.
