SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

The goal is to achieve inclusive and environmentally sound industrialisation and develop quality, sustainable and resilient infrastructure. To make this possible, enterprises need better access to financial services and markets, among other things.

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Integrated Company Report 2025

A global partner for strong markets

Access to new markets, fair trade, reliable supply chains and raw materials networks: how countries worldwide, local people and German and European businesses benefit from GIZ’s work.
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Giving people stability

GIZ project manager Eike Vater explains why Germany is providing reconstruction aid to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion and what strategies GIZ is pursuing.

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Global opportunities through AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing work, the economy and society. It also has enormous potential in international cooperation. Our infographic shows where this potential lies.

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Pressing ahead with global energy and climate goals

GIZ supports countries in the Global South in making their energy supply greener and more reliable and in creating an attractive investment environment for European investors. With the Global Energy Transformation Programme (GET.pro), Europe is pooling its strengths to achieve this.

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Peace as the foundation for a secure future

Security cannot be achieved single-handedly. GIZ supports reconstruction in Ukraine and Syria, promotes dialogue in the Sahel region and strengthens cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. Because development is pivotal for peace.
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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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