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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Report

Source of togetherness

What can be done when a water-poor country has to provide for more and more people? A trip through northern Jordan in villages that have taken in large numbers of refugees.

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Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel
Interview

‘We need a global re-affirmation of commitment to the SDGs’

An interview with the Chair of the GIZ Management Board on the mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda. Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel speaks about the responsibility of the Global North, the interlinkages between environmental, economic and social factors, and points out that solidarity is an intrinsic part of GIZ staff’s make-up.

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Report

Fire and water

Water management in one of the world’s driest countries has many facets. Ammar Ali Zaid from Jordan works until the sparks fly to prevent precious water from seeping into the desert ground.

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Infographics

Mind the gap!

Feminist development policy specifically promotes gender equality and is therefore an essential factor for peace and development. But how do things stand in the education, business, policy-making and health sectors? Our infographics have the answer.

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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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