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Johannesburg, South Africa, 11th of September, 2023. The Business Support Facility for Resilient Agricultural Value Chains (ABF4VC) project commenced its first Master Trainer Network Conference titled "Agribusiness is my learning journey" today...

The biotrade sector provides opportunities to drive the active participation and empowerment of women, who are key to creating the enabling conditions for socio-economic change.

The Digital Skills for Jobs and Income (DS4JI) project together with the GIZ Global project for Inclusion of Person with Disabilities organised an online webinar on "Women with Disabilities Mastering the Digital Domain - An Experience Sharing Webinar".

“Energy Management Systems empower Municipalities to reduce costs and keep the lights on in buildings and streets”

The South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor on Tuesday, 27 June 2023, hosted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ms Annalena Baerbock for the 11th Meeting of South Africa–Germany

The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), in its drive to promote connectivity and the development of infrastructure within the African continent, recently embarked on a joint work planning session with development partners...

The Open Streets Festival returned to KwaDukuza on KwaZulu-Natal’s north coast on Friday, 23 June 2023 to commemorate World Environment Day and envision the future of the city. The Festival was supported by the GIZ VCP.

On Tuesday 27 June 2023, Minister of Electricity within the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa and Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of the Federal Republic of Germany signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on Green Hydrogen.

There are 19 green hydrogen projects in various stages of planning and nine of these have been declared Strategic Infrastructure Projects (SIPs) in terms of the Infrastructure Development Act of 2014.

The enchanting coastal landscapes of South Africa have long captivated locals and tourists alike. However, with the ever-present threat of climate change, it is crucial to protect these invaluable resources for future generations.

Freeport Saldanha and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH hosted a two-day event on green hydrogen and PtX, including a demonstration of hydrogen production and a networking event ...

CTICC event to showcase local success story: Global market access beckons for over 150 Black-owned business beneficiaries of a groundbreaking South African business development programme.

This year’s VCP Day was framed by one question in particular, “How do we sustain the work done by VCP and its partners when VCP comes to an end in June 2024?” This question of sustainability and capturing the impacts of the programme over the past 11yrs.

The Eastern Cape is powering ahead with developing the green hydrogen (H2) economy and leveraging South Africa’s natural resources, such as solar, wind, and platinum group metals, which are critical requisites for producing green hydrogen.

The great green gifts: sun, wind and water: These three aspects represent in brief the result of three training units about topics surrounding the just energy transition (#JET) that took place between November 2022 and May 2023 in JHB, PTA and CPT.

CPD4E presents the paper titled “Skills for a Just Transition to a Green Future: Measuring the South African TVET System and providing input to support its development.”

Gearing African Infrastructure Projects towards Climate Financing: GIZ, and the African Union have had a long-standing commitment to promote sustainable infrastructure development as a key mechanism for supporting growth,

How do I reach large groups of people and convince them to change? Representatives of the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), the National Treasury (NT) and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) dealt with this question during a media

The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) together with Sci-Bono Discovery Centre are implementing digital literacy training offered to 1500 lectures across 50 TVET colleges to enhance the quality of teaching for improved learning. The progra

The global project, Dialogues for Urban Change (D4UC), in collaboration with the Inclusive Violence and Crime Prevention Programme (VCP), held its second peer-to-peer learning and exchange network meeting between eight Cities from South Africa (KwaDukuza,

The Digital Skills for Jobs and Income (DS4JI) project aims to improve the employment prospects of young people in South Africa through digital skilling, reskilling, and upskilling.

Boosting youth employability through digital skills

The Digital Skills for Jobs and Income (DS4JI) project conducted a site visit to two of their implementing partners of non-formal digital skills training initiatives in the Eastern Cape, and Cape Town. The project undertakes monitoring and evaluation site