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Rebuilding step by step: Rebuilding step by step

From dance studios to fashion ateliers: small businesses are giving Ukrainians hope during the war.
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Management services: Networking business worldwide

25 years successfully training international managers: The Partnering in Business with Germany programme promotes global business partnerships.
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Rural development: Agricultural research works!

African smallholders are using new knowledge to make their farms fit for the future.
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Social Development: Improving access to good food by saving and investing together

In Cambodia, a healthy diet and social protection go hand in hand.
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Environment and climate change: From Georgia to Grenada - climate protection with the Green Climate Fund

The Green Climate Fund promotes global climate action – in close cooperation with GIZ.
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Economic development and employment: Professional prospects back home

Advice and qualifications for getting (re)established at home.

Our featured projects

Customised solutions to complex challenges: that is what GIZ offers its clients. Selected examples show the entire range of our work – in different sectors, for different clients and in different regions.

Climate, environment, management of natural resources

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Enough waiting - it’s time to act!

GIZ brings life to national adaptation plans. People better protect themselves from climate damage.
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From Georgia to Grenada - climate protection with the Green Climate Fund

The Green Climate Fund promotes global climate action – in close cooperation with GIZ.
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Protecting people and the planet with catch quotas

Traditional fishing is important – and so too is the balance between commercial use and coastal protection.
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Egypt: Innovative pioneer for climate action

Egypt was host of the UN Climate Change Conference 2022. The country is pursuing diverse approaches to address climate change and its consequences.
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Ambitious goals for a green future

Climate action demands ambitious measures from all countries. GIZ is supporting in planning and implementation efforts.
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Preventing the spread of deserts: good for both crops and the climate

An ever increasing amount of fertile soil is disappearing worldwide. The earth is ‘desertifying’, and GIZ has its sights set on preventing this.
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Life-saving diversity

Conserving biodiversity is of existential importance to human beings, animals and the environment. GIZ works to protect biodiversity around the world.
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Ready for change: Chile is on course for a future with renewables

Chile is developing innovative storage solutions that will achieve a consistent energy supply from solar and wind power.
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Protection with immediate effect: climate risk insurance for farmers in Zambia and Peru

Extreme weather events are occurring more and more frequently. New insurance models protect farmers from losses.
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Bright prospects for clean energy

By reducing emissions, Chile is helping protect the climate.
A woman is harvesting coffee beans.

Climate-friendly coffee from Costa Rica

Costa Rica has set itself the goal of reducing CO2 emissions in coffee production.
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The Pacific islands are adapting to climate change

With sea levels rising, Fiji and its neighbours have been forced to take action.
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Green mosques and the transition to clean energy

Morocco is using energy-efficient technology in mosques and thus helping to mitigate climate change.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT

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And action! Rwanda’s film industry takes off

In Rwanda and Kenya, films ‘Made in Africa’ are creating new jobs.
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Nurses programme: career prospects ‘in a job I love’

Triple Win supports qualified nurses from overseas in finding jobs in Germany.
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Fair working conditions on digital platforms

Digital platforms are revolutionising the world of work. A project is campaigning for higher labour standards and fair conditions.
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Ghana: Clear regulations for fair fishing

Our oceans are overfished. Digital solutions are helping to protect biodiversity while securing food sources and incomes.
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Reducing poverty with innovative business models

Companies are using inclusive business strategies to integrate people on lower incomes and improving their lives permanently as a result.
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Good Life: supporting sustainable start-ups

Successful development programme for sustainable start-ups and small businesses in Sri Lanka provides a blueprint for Ethiopia.
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Made in Ghana: making textile production socially and ethically responsible

Cooperation with international companies is helping to make Ghana’s textile factories more socially responsible and efficient.
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Stay or leave? How the right advice is helping people build a future for themselves

Migration advisory centres provide advice on work and training opportunities at home and in Germany.
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Opportunities for a fresh start back home

Advisory services and reintegration scouts support refugees and migrants who are returning home.
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Namibia: Bush waste boosts the economy

A commodity with potential: The utilization of bush wood waste boosts the Namibian economy.
Two women are working at laptops.

Digital skills for entrepreneurial women

The tech industry is still largely a male domain, but more and more women are now taking jobs in the sector. Ghana and Rwanda are just two countries where this is happening.
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More jobs. Better jobs.

Every fourth young person in North Africa is unemployed. Setting up job centres and providing advice on starting a business are helping solve this problem.
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Sub-Saharan Africa: More jobs, higher incomes

An international initiative is committed to ensuring that the economic upturn benefits local people and businesses.
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An exchange full of unlimited possibilities

The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Programme (CBYX) enables young people from Germany and the USA to spend a year in each other’s country.
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Bangladesh: producing socially-conscious and eco-friendly clothing

Bangladesh’s textile and clothing industry is growing rapidly. Employees are set to benefit more from this growth.
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When everyone’s a winner – international nurses for Germany

Triple Win recruits qualified nurses from abroad for German employers.

SECURITY, RECONSTRUCTION AND PEACE

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Avoiding water conflicts

Water is becoming scarcer. Demand is increasing. Dialogues with countries bordering rivers and lakes reduce the potential for conflict.
Four women are standing on a stage and holding a Ukrainian flag.

Rebuilding step by step

From dance studios to fashion ateliers: small businesses are giving Ukrainians hope during the war.
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Zentralafrika: Keine Wirtschaft ohne Frieden

Wer Rohstoffe legal abbauen will, muss Konflikte lösen und Frieden fördern.
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Joining forces for integration

How can migrants and refugees be integrated in a sustainable way? New strategies to address this are being developed in Mexico.
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Responsibility for Africa: Making migration safer and improving prospects for the people

European migration policy aims to support migrants and refugees and to combat human trafficking.
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Prospects for refugees and migrants

Education, jobs, infrastructure: Supporting forcibly displaced people, migrants and host regions in a number of different ways.
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A building for peace and security

Sustainable and earthquake-proof: the African Union’s Peace and Security Building.

GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY

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The 2030 Agenda: let’s talk money!

Realising the SDGs requires finance. GIZ advises countries all over the world on how to find and use the necessary funds.
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Tunisia: Greater participation, greater trust

The Arab Spring ten years on: more public participation is defining political life in the municipalities.
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Digital administration: autonomy at the push of a button

Digitalisation is driving autonomy among Ghana’s local authorities.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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Agricultural research works!

African smallholders are using new knowledge to make their farms fit for the future.
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Bangladesh: quick solutions instead of long trips

Women entrepreneurs are making life easier for people in rural areas with apps and knowledge.
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More than a trend: organic farming in Africa

Conserving resources while boosting harvests: Senegal is an example of how this can work.
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Farming 4 Future: Sustainable rice cultivation in Africa

An initiative is helping small farmers build a resilient future
A man in a straw hat is working on a flooded rice field.

Southeast Asia: Satellite data secures rice farmers' income

Use of digital technology for rice production facilitates comprehensive observation and crop yield forecasting, and that includes possible harvest losses.
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A marketing success: African cashew nuts

The Competitive Cashew Initiative helps cashew farmers in West Africa to increase yields.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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Improving access to good food by saving and investing together

In Cambodia, a healthy diet and social protection go hand in hand.
A woman with a red headscarf is holding a baby in her arms.

Working towards a world without AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria with BACKUP Health

20 years ago, GIZ came up with an idea to shore up health systems worldwide.
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A secure future

Health and accident insurance: millions of people in Bangladesh and India are benefiting.
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Taking the initiative for their own future

Enthusiastic young people are bringing lasting changes to their societies. Creative projects are teaching them to seize opportunities.
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A place for women’s empowerment

The Women Development and Training Centres in Libya: run by women for women
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Education must go on

The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into an education crisis. Is digitalisation the solution?
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Artificial intelligence for ALL

Using local 'language donations' to provide digital health care advice.
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Women promote peace

An information network is supporting women activists to boost their participation in peace processes.
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A flexible approach to fighting the virus

After training in Germany, specialists are taking their expertise back to their home countries. The global coronavirus outbreak is placing different demands on them than originally planned.
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India: Health care for half a billion people

India’s National Health Protection Scheme has proven itself in the coronavirus pandemic, particularly providing cover for those in need.
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Ethiopia: Proven partners for a new challenge

The pandemic has caused complex challenges for Ethiopia.
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Getting through the pandemic with a plan

All around the world, COVID-19 demands flexible and local solutions. In Iraq and Lebanon GIZ is finding these by drawing on structures that are already in place.
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In the right place at the right time

GIZ is helping sub-Saharan African states cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting efforts to build more resilient health systems.
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1:0 – Sport opens up development opportunities

Sport builds self-confidence in young people – and teaches skills.

MANAGEMENT SERVICES

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Networking business worldwide

25 years successfully training international managers: The Partnering in Business with Germany programme promotes global business partnerships.
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AFRIKA KOMMT! (Africa is coming!) – a training programme for young managers

The AFRIKA KOMMT! initiative run by the German private sector offers young managers from Africa the opportunity to learn management skills.
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Behind the scenes at the museums

Georgia’s museums have been restored to their former glory thanks to a partnership between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Georgian National Museum.

Sustainable infrastructure: water, energy, transport

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Investing in a sustainable future with ‘green bonds’

Climate bonds are financing the green transition in South Africa.

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