SDG 1: No Poverty

No one should have to live in extreme poverty, meaning on less than $3 per day. The number of poor people overall should be halved by 2030, and the provision of social security benefits should increase.

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In India, the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH is empowering female entrepreneurs. Women are being empowered to take matters into their own hands as entrepreneurs. In this way, they become role models. Two voices on this inspiring journey.
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Bright change

In India, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is empowering women founders and allowing them to act independently as entrepreneurs. As a result, they are becoming role models. Two women describe this inspiring journey.
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Solar cells at sunset
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Frozen sunlight

Green economic recovery in action: a successful German-Indonesian project illustrates how renewable energy can boost the local economy in fishing villages across the archipelago – with solar-powered ice makers.
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Mali The women's harvest
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Women's harvest

In northern Mali, women smallholders are providing good and healthy food. Thanks to new vegetable varieties, goat farming and improved methods of growing rice, they are enhancing not only their income, but also their standing in the community.
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Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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