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SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Global challenges can only be overcome through joint action. That is why partnerships are needed at many levels. All countries and stakeholders – public and private – should play their part. Donor countries should make 0.7 per cent of their gross national income available for poorer countries.

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Matthias Militzer

Vorgestellt: Matthias Militzer

My name is Matthias Militzer. I returned to Germany at the end of last year, having spent many exciting years working as a GIZ risk manager in Afghanistan and South Sudan.

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Eine handgezeichnete Porträtillustration einer lächelnden Frau mit zurückgebundenem Haar vor einem türkisfarbenen Hintergrund.
Three questions

‘Making the mountain of waste disappear’

Drei Fragen an Ana Maria Villegas, Start-up-Unternehmerin in Kolumbien. Die Designerin hat ein Mehrwegkonzept für die Gastronomie entwickelt.
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Three questions

‘Waste management at our hospital is exemplary’

Three questions for the ophthalmologist Dr Meena Kunwar Joshi, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and Deputy Director of the Nepal Armed Police Force (APF) Hospital, which also treats civilians. With the support of GIZ, Dr Kunwar Joshi expanded the hos

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Eine Frau mit langen braunen Haaren trägt einen weißen Schutzhelm mit der Aufschrift "giz" und eine gelbe Warnweste auf einer Baustelle.

Introducing: Duygu Baydilli, Eschborn

My name is Duygu Baydilli and I work in the Construction Section at GIZ. Together with more than 40 colleagues, I advise, review and approve construction projects across the world.

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Nahaufnahme eines Kindes mit schwarzen Streifenmustern im Gesicht, das zur Seite blickt, mit verschwommenem Hintergrund.
Interview

‘After COP29, the world is now looking ahead to Brazil’

The COP29 UN Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan ended with relatively little to show in the way of progress. In an interview with akzente, Jörg Linke, Head of GIZ’s Competence Centre for Climate Change, explains why hopes are now turning to COP30 next year in Belém.
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Drei Personen vor einem gelben Hintergrund mit Windrädern und südafrikanischen Flaggenfarben, zentral eine Frau mit Zebra-Muster-Kleidung.
Perspectives

Winds of change driving the energy transition in the Cape

To bring about a Just Energy Transition (JET), you have to take everyone with you and get them actively involved. On behalf of the German Government, GIZ supports a number of South African partner organisations as they embark on this journey. We interviewed a wide range of people about the changes they see happening in the Cape.

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Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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