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Manager Training: benefiting both sides

A programme is enabling executives from other countries to build up business contacts among German companies.

Social Development

Women promote peace

An information network is supporting women activists to boost their participation in peace processes.

Climate, environment, management of natural resources

Life-saving diversity

Conserving biodiversity is of existential importance to human beings, animals and the environment. GIZ works to protect biodiversity around the world.

Economy and Development

Sub-Saharan Africa: More jobs, higher incomes

An international initiative is committed to ensuring that the economic upturn benefits local people and businesses.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT

Made in Ghana: making apparel production socially and ethically responsible

Cooperation with international companies is helping to make apparel factories safer and more socially responsible.

LATEST NEWS

24.01.2022

Afghanistan: GIZ is assisting local employees to leave the country

Vulnerable people from other organisations are also supported.

17.01.2022

‘Our commitment to fair wages is long term’

The clothing manufacturer Brands Fashion has worked together with GIZ in India to implement the latest standards for fair supply chains. In this interview, Rabea Schafrick, Head of Sustainability, talks about the experiences.

10.01.2022

Green recovery: securing a sustainable future

How can we make our future greener – and fairer? The latest issue of GIZ’s magazine akzente showcases opportunities to shape our future and examples of projects doing just that.

07.01.2022

Using artificial intelligence and open-source satellite data to ensure food security

Can artificial intelligence and open remote sensing data be used to predict crop yields? Programmers from countries in Africa learn about this in training courses.
Social participation through e-governance

17.12.2021

Social participation through e-governance

With digital formats, public administrations can directly involve their citizens in local issues. In the Palestinian territories, this is how people shape their environment.

07.12.2021

New multi-media report: In search of sustainable cocoa

Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s biggest producer of cocoa. To secure a fair wage for cocoa farmers, numerous organisations have joined forces to promote greater sustainability.

23.11.2021

Interview: ‘Using digital technology to benefit the whole of society’

Digitalisation poses complex challenges for international cooperation. Dirk Aßmann, Director General of GIZ’s Sectoral Department, talks in this interview about the related challenges, opportunities and solutions.

22.11.2021

Peru: Using waste wisely, conserving resources

For the Incas, Machu Picchu was a place of spirituality. A few years ago, a rethink was needed to get the mountains of trash at the popular tourist site under control.

16.11.2021

Rwanda: first electric tractor goes into operation

In cooperation with Volkswagen and partners in Africa, GIZ is supporting research and development to pilot the first e-tractor in Africa.

11.11.2021

Interview: Does protecting wildlife also protect human health?

Over 700,000 unknown viruses in wildlife have the potential to jump to humans as ‘zoonoses’. Veterinarian Hannah Emde explains the process and how we can prevent it.

02.11.2021

Kenya: New companies providing fresh boost for transport

Nairobi’s growing population is pushing the transport system to its limits. New ideas for solutions are coming from local start-ups.

29.10.2021

Climate commitment at GIZ: meeting the 1.5°C target worldwide

On Sunday, the international climate negotiations will be beginning in Glasgow. GIZ is taking on the challenging task of making the goals of the Paris Agreement a reality.

28.10.2021

Only 99 months to put the brakes on the climate crisis

On the road to climate protection, there is no way around transportation. An article by GIZ Managing Director Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven.

21.10.2021

Milestone: GIZ has achieved climate neutrality worldwide

The company has offset all its own greenhouse gas emissions worldwide for the first time. It has ambitious targets for the coming years, too.

13.10.2021

Togo: Ensuring access to family planning services even during the pandemic

Despite the COVID-19 crisis, medical professionals can access training courses and thus help to improve health care for young women, pregnant women and mothers.

04.10.2021

Ukraine: joining forces to shape the cities of the future

A sustainable approach to urban planning that takes account of locals’ views is improving quality of life and coexistence in Ukrainian towns and cities.

30.09.2021

Turkey: job opportunities in a new home

Training opens up career opportunities in the Turkish IT sector for young jobseekers from Turkey and Syria.

28.09.2021

Dancing, football and theatre – vaccination awareness in Malawi

Creative solutions to encourage more people to get vaccinated: mobile teams are raising awareness of protective measures and vaccination against COVID-19.

Fair and sustainable

In search of sustainable cocoa

Côte d'Ivoire produces more cocoa than any other country. GIZ is committed to ensuring that cocoa is sustainable from the field to the shelf. One goal: better living conditions for smallholder farmers. Our multimedia report shows how this can be achieved.

Facts and figures

Direct political participation of

3.6 million

people

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Better access to freshwater for

4.5 million

people

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A total of

156

different nationalities among the workforce

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Support in overcoming hunger and malnutrition for

5.3 million

people

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Improved employment situation for

100,000

people in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Better waste management for

20 million

people

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Cocoa production for the regional and national market

Cocoa production for the regional and national market

GIZ Campus Bonn Cooling with CO2 and Propane

GIZ techDetector – Technology Radar for Sustainable Development

Combatting Illicit Financial Flows – Sniffing Dogs

Speak Up Girls – Empowering Women and Girls as Citizen Journalists in Zambia

New working environments at GIZ in Bonn: Campus Forum 2021

Jordan - Employment opportunities for women in waste management

#GIZworks Kenya: Cash for work – soap & hand sanitisers

Generation Digital! Supporting Digital Skills for the Next Generation

Mobility4Cities – Shaping Tomorrow’s urban Transport in the South Caucasus

Cocoa production for the regional and national market

GIZ Campus Bonn Cooling with CO2 and Propane

GIZ techDetector – Technology Radar for Sustainable Development

Combatting Illicit Financial Flows – Sniffing Dogs

Speak Up Girls – Empowering Women and Girls as Citizen Journalists in Zambia

New working environments at GIZ in Bonn: Campus Forum 2021

Jordan - Employment opportunities for women in waste management

#GIZworks Kenya: Cash for work – soap & hand sanitisers

Generation Digital! Supporting Digital Skills for the Next Generation

Mobility4Cities – Shaping Tomorrow’s urban Transport in the South Caucasus

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