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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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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.
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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.
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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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Portrait of Ms CHANTAL DE JONGE OUDRAAT
Interview

‘It’s not just wrong, it’s stupid’

Excluding women from security matters – as is still widely the practice across the globe – seriously affects the success rates of peace processes, says Chantal de Jonge Oudraat.
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Equality in action – Fawaz Al Khattab supports his wife Aida's career.
Jordan

Breaking new ground together

They challenge stereotypes, win over men and are role models: female members of Jordan’s regional councils in action.
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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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