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.

Governance and democracy

Tunisia: Greater participation, greater trust

The Arab Spring ten years on: more public participation is defining political life in the municipalities.

Social Development

In the right place at the right time

GIZ is helping sub-Saharan African states cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting efforts to build more resilient health systems.

Economic development and employment

Good Life: supporting sustainable start-ups

Successful development programme for sustainable start-ups and small businesses in Sri Lanka provides a blueprint for Ethiopia.

Climate, environment, management of natural resources

The 2030 Agenda, Mexican style

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets high targets, and Mexico wants to achieve them. To do so, it is implementing a comprehensive strategy.

Sustainable Infrastructure

Investing in a sustainable future with ‘green bonds’

Climate bonds are financing the green transition in South Africa.

LATEST NEWS

08.06.2021

A strong alliance for international climate action: GIZ becomes a member of the NDC Partnership

The partnership supports countries in translating the Paris Agreement into specific national targets. This cooperation is now being expanded.

02.06.2021

Enthuse, educate, employ: New opportunities on the African IT market

A new initiative brings together companies and potential employees in Africa’s IT sector – while promoting inclusion.

26.05.2021

Practitioners’ Network: Joint European solutions for global challenges

As of May 2021, GIZ and its Lithuanian counterpart CPMA have assumed the co-Presidency of the Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation.

25.05.2021

Ice from solar energy for sustainable fishing

Successful cooperation: cooling technology from Germany and solar energy from Indonesia secure an income for small-scale fishing in remote regions.

20.05.2021

Côte d’Ivoire: blockchain stops the activities of drugs counterfeiters

Many of the drugs in circulation in Africa are counterfeits. A start-up has now developed a code that makes it possible to identify counterfeit drugs.

11.05.2021

GIZ works – even during a pandemic

Education, energy, health ... throughout 2020, GIZ continued to improve lives on behalf of its commissioning parties. The latest figures illustrate just how many.

29.04.2021

Digital marketplace offers training for young people in Africa

Innovative solutions to global challenges: The digital platform Yoma provides education and networking opportunities for young people in Africa.

21.04.2021

Setting sail to work

Janina Marie Laurent started out in her new job with GIZ on the Marshall Islands right in the middle of the pandemic. She reached her new workplace by unusual means.

07.04.2021

We should help because we can help

COVID-19 doesn’t recognise national borders. That’s why we need a global vaccination strategy. An article by Lucia Puttrich, Minister of European Affairs in the State of Hesse, and Tanja Gönner, Chair of the GIZ Management Board.

29.03.2021

Feeding the world – never-ending hunger?

What needs to change to achieve a well-fed world? The new issue of GIZ’s akzente magazine examines the challenges and solutions.

26.03.2021

Education for all? Getting through the pandemic with new learning formats

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, GIZ was devising alternative and digital education formats. The last year has demonstrated just how important these formats are.

24.03.2021

Medical gowns from Albania: ‘Our cooperation was a stroke of luck’

Christian Schneider was really planning to set up operations in Africa, but COVID-19 put paid to that. In this interview, he explains why he began working in Albania instead – together with GIZ.

19.03.2021

‘The pandemic has shown us that digital collaboration makes many things possible.’

Labour Relations Director Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel explains how the impacts of the pandemic are changing work processes at GIZ and accelerating the trend towards new ways of working.

10.03.2021

Bangladesh: using data to further climate adaptation

Data helps with measuring adaptation to climate change. In Bangladesh, GIZ employee Emilia Huss is supporting ministries in using climate data effectively.

05.03.2021

International Women's Day: Raising awareness of women's rights in Afghanistan

Gradually reworking society’s image of women. How Afghan women are asserting their rights.

04.03.2021

Lebanon: cooperation for urgent medical assistance

The United Nations and GIZ are working together to improve medical care for COVID-19 patients in Lebanon. Palestinian refugees, in particular, are thus receiving support in the pandemic.

25.02.2021

Using knowledge: GIZ presents its Evaluation Report 2020

Following reform of its evaluation system, GIZ has improved the quality and comparability of its evaluation data, which provide an important basis for project work.

25.02.2021

Digital skills and support for young people in the tech sector

Training in future technologies: Orange Digital Centres in Africa and the Middle East teach young people practical digital skills.

Food and Nutrition

The basis for a healthy future

What needs to change to achieve a well-fed world? The new issue of #GIZakzente examines the challenges and solutions.

Facts and figures

More than

2.3 million

internally displaced persons have received support

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Better preparation to cope with climate change for

3,185

organisations

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A total of

22,199

staff members worldwide

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Support for nearly

70,000

people after returning to their home country

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Citizens’ offices in Tunisia:

808,000

people benefit from them

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Access to modern forms of energy for

1.5 million

people

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Female Entrepreneurs: Changemakers, SV Cooperation with the Private Sector

Female Entrepreneurs: Changemakers, SV Cooperation with the Private Sector

GIZ – Securing Nutrition, Enhancing Resilience

A holistic and participatory approach: climate risk management

GIZ works worldwide - Good governance and better state administration

GIZ Turkey: Charting new paths to the future

GIZ Corporate Strategy 2020-2022

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

GIZ works worldwide - Conserving forests through sustainable management

#DigitalGIZ Rwanda: Digital Transformation Center

Sustainable Energy for food: Powering Agriculture

Female Entrepreneurs: Changemakers, SV Cooperation with the Private Sector

GIZ – Securing Nutrition, Enhancing Resilience

A holistic and participatory approach: climate risk management

GIZ works worldwide - Good governance and better state administration

GIZ Turkey: Charting new paths to the future

GIZ Corporate Strategy 2020-2022

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

GIZ works worldwide - Conserving forests through sustainable management

#DigitalGIZ Rwanda: Digital Transformation Center

Sustainable Energy for food: Powering Agriculture

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16. Juni 2021

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