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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 2024

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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‘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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Interview

‘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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‘Sustainability is part of my corporate responsibility’

Antje von Dewitz is Managing Director of the successful German outdoor brand VAUDE. In this interview with akzente, the entrepreneur talks about the corporate identity of the family business, cooperation with GIZ, and the Green Button and Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) initiatives.
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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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