SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

There should be full employment. Everyone should be able to access decent work; forced labour and human trafficking should be eradicated. At the same time, the economy in developing countries should grow by at least seven per cent per annum.

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Integrated Company Report 2024

Digital Transformation: harnessing opportunities, mitigating risks

Open, fair and equitable: how digitalisation can help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. GIZ passes on the skills needed to use digital systems effectively and stengthens societies to mitigate the risks of digitalisation.
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‘Creating sustainable jobs with purpose: balancing profit and impact’

Kaleab Getaneh Zewelde is the co-founder and CEO of Mela for Her. The Ethiopian company for reusable menstrual products not only stands for sustainable goods with a social impact, it also offers attractive employment opportunities for women.

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‘The responsible use of AI could be a game changer in Africa’

In our interview, Member of the GIZ Management Board Anna Sophie Herken discusses why women leaders are necessary for a just transformation through artificial intelligence (AI) and why GIZ has launched the FemAI Leaders for Africa Initiative.
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Ensuring everyone benefits from AI

GIZ is working on developing and using fair artificial intelligence with partner countries. Petra Zimmermann-Steinhart and Bernd Lakemeier explain what that looks like and how it is helping hundreds of millions of people in Africa and Asia.
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‘GIZ’s expertise is incredibly valuable’

Hildegard Bentele, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Development, talks about learning from crises, the EU’s place in the current geopolitical rivalry and what GIZ offers in international cooperation.
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A lawyer for inclusion

How a blind lawyer from Ethiopia ended up at GIZ in Bonn and why he feels very much at home there.
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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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