Stories on peace and security

In the run-up to the Ukraine Recovery Conference, GIZ Managing Director Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven talks about her recent visit to Ukraine and the outstanding commitment of the GIZ team there.

Insights into our current work on the ground: video interview with Daniel Busche, GIZ Country Director in Ukraine  

How a city partnership is providing rapid support to Ukraine thanks to the decades-long work of a non-profit foundation. A visit to northern Germany.

German cities, districts and local authorities are supporting their Ukrainian partner municipalities with civil protection and reconstruction. GIZ project manager Maria König explains how this works.

Interview with Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international organisation and GIZ partner that works against corruption in a highly profitable sector

Human rights activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim from Chad applies indigenous knowledge to fight the impacts of climate change. She uses cartography to resolve conflicts over vital resources.

Heidy Rombouts, Director General of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, on the priorities of Belgium’s EU Council Presidency, Team Europe approach and why it is important to sometimes change your perspective

Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Chair of the Management Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on Germany’s global responsibility and how international cooperation also achieves results in Germany

Special Envoy Gesa Bräutigam on the development and importance of feminist foreign policy

Women journalists in Iraq speak candidly about what life is like for women in the country.

We visit the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Institute in San José, where human rights, nature and the environment are viewed in a new light.

An interview with Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot, Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights – on climate change, human rights, nature and a common understanding across continents.