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SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Everyone should have access to safe and affordable water and to adequate toilets and handwashing facilities. Water quality worldwide should also be improved through recycling and reuse.

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Remaining steadfast

Why former football star Neven Subotic has been interested in water issues in Africa for years, and why he considers fundamental criticism of international cooperation excessive.

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‘Challenges do not stop at national borders’

In the Sahel, GIZ, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF are working together in the same communities. In this interview, Abdrahamane Karimou Issa explains how this cooperation is changing the everyday lives of families in Chad - and why it is important not only for the region, but beyond its borders.
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Achieving more with the private sector

Strong partnerships are becoming even more important for us. Cooperation with the private sector in particular is playing an increasingly significant role.
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Coveted raw materials, fairly sourced

The work of GIZ contributes to ensuring that rare resources in Latin America are extracted responsibly, socially, and transparently.
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Three questions

‘Waste management at our hospital is exemplary’

Three questions for the ophthalmologist Dr Meena Kunwar Joshi, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and Deputy Director of the Nepal Armed Police Force (APF) Hospital, which also treats civilians. With the support of GIZ, Dr Kunwar Joshi expanded the hos

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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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