SDG 5: Gender Equality

By 2030, all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere should be ended. Instead, women and girls should have equal opportunities to participate in political, economic and public life.

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Interview

‘For girls and women, not against men’

James Macbeth Forbes, GIZ Country Director in Uganda, explains why feminist development policy is important for everyone.

Girl sitting at a school desk writing in a notebook

Interview

‘Safe menstrual hygiene is linked to educational opportunities’

In this akzente interview, Dr Cleophas Mugenyi (Commissioner for Basic Education) and Angella Nansubuga (Officer in the Gender Division) from Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports talk about hygiene education, stigmas and the role played by the Sanitation for Millions programme.

Report

Talking about the most natural thing in the world

A school in northern Uganda demonstrates how to break taboos and address the subject of menstruation.

Interview

‘Climate is at the heart of development policy’

Svenja Schulze is new to the German Development Ministry but not to Government. Her priorities are climate, poverty, gender, health and crisis prevention. In an interview, she discusses German development policy in flux.

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.

Perspectives

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.

Persecuted, displaced, murdered: hardly any other population group has suffered as much from the armed conflict in Colombia as people with diverse gender identities or sexual orientations. GIZ supports them in coming to terms with their violent past and becoming involved in the peace process. Four voices speak about this difficult journey.

Perspectives

Mother Courage

Subject to persecution, displacement or murder, people with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations have arguably suffered more than almost any other group during the armed conflict in Colombia. GIZ is helping them to deal with their violent past and to become involved in the peace process. Four voices describe their difficult journey.

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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