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Climate, environment, management of natural resources: Ready for change: Chile is on course for a future with renewables

Chile is developing innovative storage solutions that will achieve a consistent energy supply from solar and wind power.

Social Development: Reducing poverty with innovative business models

Companies are using inclusive business strategies to integrate people on lower incomes and improving their lives permanently as a result.

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.

Social development: Achieving more together with Sport for Development

From Indonesia to the West Balkans, young people are sharing social experiences that go far beyond the realm of sport.

Digitalisation: Digital administration: autonomy at the push of a button

Digitalisation is driving autonomy among Ghana’s local authorities.

Social Development: Working towards a world without AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria with BACKUP Health

20 years ago, GIZ came up with an idea to shore up health systems worldwide.

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27.03.2023

Rana Plaza 10 years on: ‘Stringent regulations, room for improvement’

The collapse of a dilapidated textile factory in Bangladesh in 2013 killed more than 1,100 people. Since the accident, the textile sector in Bangladesh has undergone significant transformation.

23.03.2023

Improving the prospects of young people who stay in or return to their home country

Many young people in Central America leave their homeland in search of a better life. However, new opportunities are being created thanks to job training programmes in their own country.

22.03.2023

Green hydrogen: a new market for the fuel of the future

Green hydrogen can help mitigate climate change. Pilot projects aim to make hydrogen technology ready to market.

14.03.2023

A new app for social security benefits applications

In Pakistan, people with disabilities are entitled to social care, but the barriers are high. An app makes it easier for them to access this support.

07.03.2023

‘Safe menstrual hygiene is linked to educational opportunities’

In Uganda, girls are frequently absent from school during their menstruation. With the support of GIZ, the government wants to change this and make education possible.

03.03.2023

Giving the Global South a voice

Global crises can only be resolved together. GIZ is working to ensure that partners from particularly hard-hit countries are heard – for example at high-level meetings like the Munich Security Conference.

03.02.2023

For the right to health – eradicating female genital mutilation

Governments and civil society in the Horn of Africa are working together to end female genital mutilation.

02.02.2023

Sustainable business practices: a role model at the market

From smallholder to successful businesswoman – how Grace Akot from Uganda did it.

26.01.2023

Pakistan: a simplified registration procedure facilitates faster flood relief

Many people in Pakistan lost everything to the floods. A customised register helps people to receive social benefits easily in crises.

23.01.2023

Ukraine: Looking ahead with a resilient economy

Entrepreneur Olga Romanenko explains why it is important to sustain the Ukrainian economy in times of war and how the platform leverist.de supports her.

19.01.2023

‘There are red lines for us’

Interview with Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Chair of the Management Board.

17.01.2023

Start-ups are improving lives

A funding programme supports young companies in Africa in getting investment ready. Their digital innovations are boosting income in the agricultural sector.

15.12.2022

Better learning: linking health and education

Many children in South-East Asia are affected by illnesses. This hinders their progress at school. Better hygiene is improving the health of 15 million students.

07.12.2022

Protecting species to protect the future – for nature, humans, animals and the climate

Stopping species loss and restoring ecosystems: GIZ is working around the world to maintain the very foundations of our existence.

06.12.2022

Anna Sophie Herken to join the GIZ Management Board

The development and sustainability expert will join the GIZ Management Board in summer 2023.

01.12.2022

Knowledge without taboos: a join-in circuit to combat HIV

Trialled in schools, rolled out nationwide: an interactive educational programme is teaching 30,000 young people in Zambia to protect themselves better against AIDS.

23.11.2022

Forest conservation fights climate change

Forest conservation is crucial in fighting climate change. In Ghana, local communities are doing their part by switching to fast-growing timber and more efficient cooking stoves.

17.11.2022

Turkey: Job prospects promote solidarity

There are almost four million Syrian refugees living in Turkey. A women’s cooperative provides stable incomes and a sense of shared identity.

Green Recovery

Climate change is a danger for more and more regions around the world, with increasingly life-threatening impacts. At the same time, the world is facing extreme challenges as a result of the energy and food crises brought about by Russia's war on Ukraine.

Facts and figures

928,000 people have participated directly in political processes

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3.9 million people have received support in overcoming hunger and malnutrition

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183,000 people have taken up jobs

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Nearly 909,000 internally displaced persons have received support

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95 million people have access to better health services

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More than 1.1 million refugees reached

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  • From sunrise to sunset: A new day for agro-pastoralists
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  • Data Centre Flexibility in Germany and China: Results from an Interview-based study
  • Sustainable worldwide – GIZ sustainability initiatives 2021

Combatting Illicit Financial Flows – Sniffing Dogs

Promoting Democracy in the 21st century

Resilience in Tourism: Stories of Resilience by Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs

Quantifying the impact of air pollution on solar output

eHealth solution to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Africa

From sunrise to sunset: A new day for agro-pastoralists

Living Adaptation: Indian farmers turning garbage into gold

A silk thread of hope: Changing women's lives in Ethiopia through green jobs

Data Centre Flexibility in Germany and China: Results from an Interview-based study

Sustainable worldwide – GIZ sustainability initiatives 2021

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