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#AccelerateAction: Stories of Women in Technology Across ASEAN
What In celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025 and its theme, “Accelerate Action,” we run a social media campaign in the second week of March. The IWD 2025 theme, #AccelerateAction, advocates transformative efforts to advance gender equality, particularly in…
#LetsTalkPERIOD: Impure Film Screening
GIZ Cameroon, in partnership with Team Europe, the French Embassy in Cameroon and the Institut francais du Cameroun, was proud to present the Central African premiere of the German-Kenyan feature film “IMPURE”. Following a message from the co-producer and a…
SANG Tabou – Periods@Work – GiZ Morocco
As highlighted by the German Development Minister Svenja Schulze – the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development on the international Menstrual Hygiene Day in 2022, “Menstruation should not be a taboo! Bathrooms @GIZ Morocco will be equipped with menstrual…
InSpire session – the GIZ Gender Strategy at InS
Just a month ago, the GIZ Gender Strategy 2025-2029 was launched company-wide. Today, ensuring its implementation is the common responsibility of all staff and managers, including at International Services. Together with the InS Director General Andrea von Rauch, Theresa Rettner…
MenstruAction – One goal, many initiatives
NEW: 2015-2025 Anniversary Edition of our MenstruAction Flipbook! 👉 GIZ_MenstruAction-Publication-2025-WEB v15 This year marks the 10th anniversary of the GIZ staff initiative MenstruAction – a decade of breaking taboos, learning from each other, and making Menstrual Health and Hygiene…
Think Global, Act Local: How to implement the GIZ Gender Strategy in the Middle East
The new GIZ Gender Strategy (2025-2029) was launched in a company-wide event on February 10th. It provides strategic direction and key interventions to lead the way for the coming years: Addressing gender-based discrimination by focusing on the structural and underlying…
Photo competition “People in GIZ East Asia #AccelerateAction for Gender Equality”
In honor of the upcoming International Women’s Day 2025, which is celebrated annually on March 8, and to commemorate the GIZ Gender Week 2025, the GIZ East Asia office, specifically focusing on Mongolia and China, is organizing a photo competition. This initiative…
Photo competition “People in GIZ East Asia #AccelerateAction for Gender Equality
In honor of the upcoming International Women’s Day 2025, which is celebrated annually on March 8, and to commemorate the GIZ Gender Week 2025, the GIZ East Asia office (Mongolia and China) is organizing a photo competition. This initiative is themed “People…
Women free from violence: This is how Ecuador wins!
Since 2018, actors from different sectors, including the business sector, the public sector, academia and the media, have been working together to address the widespread problem of violence against women and girls in Ecuador, as part of a strategic campaign…
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Empowering Diversity: GIZ Bangladesh initiatives towards gender equality
GIZ Bangladesh showcased gender activities from their different clusters in an online event held on 23 May 2024. Fatema Begum, Gender Focal Person, Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development, moderated the event that took off with a welcome speech from…
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Découverte littérature féministe locale – GIZ Bénin
With the events in March, GIZ will be celebrating the month of Gender Equality and Gender Justice. For commemorating International Women’s Day on March 8th, GIZ Benin is organising a Brown Bag Lunch on the 21st of march to discover,…
Conférence nationale sur la femme rurale et l’agriculture sous condition irriguée
De concert avec le collège des femmes agricultrices de la Coordination togolaise des organisations paysannes et de producteurs agricoles (CTOP), cette conférence sera organisée le 12 mars sous le thème : « L’irrigation : un levier de renforcement de l’autonomisation économique des femmes…
Final conference withing the Campaign “Improve Gender equality”
The German Development Cooperation project “Support to Social Inclusion in Serbia (GIZ SIP)” has supported the Ministry of Human, Minority Rights and Social Dialogue (MHMRSD) to conduct the campaign for improvement of gender equality in Serbia. The aim of the…
FemFest
GIZ Albania this year is joining BashArt on International Women’s Week, supporting the third edition of #FemFEST 2024. From 4 to 8 March, the festival gathers artists, activists, writers and politicians to give voice to issues of gender equality and…
Gender Awareness Campaign
This year, the internal service providers are organising an awareness-raising campaign at the German sites. Part of the campaign is a video that illustrates the ideas of a gender-equitable world. The video will be shown on the in-house TV screens…
ELVIS Cinema
As part of Gender Month, we are showing a relevant film that deals with gender inequality. In doing so, we are taking a look beyond national borders. The colleagues of the Procurement, Contracting, Properties, Property Management, Language Services (ELVIS) department,…
Innovando en el procesamiento y transformación de la paja toquilla
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Navigating Feminisms: A Contextualization of BMZ´s Feminist Development Policy in MENA
Its been almost exactly a year that BMZ has published its strategy for a feminist development policy. Time to celebrate? Not really, or – at least – not yet. Resistance against feminist struggles and an ever-growing gender backlash are on…
“Lunch Quiz – How much do you know?” and movie night “Women (2019)” Arthus-Bertrad
GIZ has been active in China since 1979, focusing on promoting sustainable and inclusive development through various projects and programs. In recent years, GIZ has placed a significant emphasis on green development, working closely with Chinese partners to address environmental…
Gender-Based Violence in Mongolia
Kick-off Gender Week – Gender-based violence in Mongolia: a problem without a solution? GIZ in Mongolia invites a national gender expert and Professor Tumendelger to face the facts of gender inequality in Mongolia. Homes, schools, workplaces and the internet are the…
GIZ Data Lab & Data Service Center: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Climate Policies through AI-Driven Solutions
GIZ Data Lab & Data Service Center: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Climate Policies through AI-Driven Solutions In climate policy documents, identifying references and concrete measures concerning demographic groups in vulnerable situations poses significant challenges due to the complexity and expansiveness of…
InS Gender Focus Month Campaign
During the Gender Focus Month 2024, International Services (InS) is organising an online campaign to raise awareness on the constant fight for gender equality worldwide, and in particular on the topics of leadership and political participation, menstrual health and hygiene,…
AI for All: African and Arab Feminist Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
AI for All: African and Arab Feminist Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (MS TEAMS, moderated panel discussion, 18. March, 11:30 – 13:00 CET) Recent dynamics in AI development have fired euphoria and dystopian fears alike. AI’s interaction with gender relations and…
Periods@Work – Why the topic of menstruation belongs at work
When? Tuesday, 14. March, 13:00 – 14:00 CET Where? MS TEAMS With? Daniela Spies, Equal Opportunities Commissioner, Adela Llatja, Gender Focal Person GIZ Albania, Katrin Freitag, Senior Expert Facility Management, Daphne Manolakos, Member of the GIZ Staff Initiative MenstruAction, ……
GIZ Gender Award Ceremony 2024
GIZ Gender Award Ceremony 2024 Don’t miss – the GIZ Gender Award Ceremony 2024 on Friday, 8th March, 11:00 – 13:00 h CET Where: Bonn, GIZ Campus, Auditorium and online via livestream We are honored to count on the…
Mobilizing and capacitating the Faith Sector as a credible and effective stakeholder in addressing gender-based violence in South Africa
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Joint Gender Transformative Approaches Working Group (GTA-WG)
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Together for WoMEN: GIZ Jordan’s Holistic Approach to Gender Mainstreaming
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Planting seeds of change in India: How communal gardening and nutrition trainings improve nutrition security for women and young children and transform gender roles
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Beit Byout: GIZ’s Gender Advocacy in Lebanese Communities
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The Investment Climate Reform (ICR) Facility: Making Business easier for Women
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Output 3 Sustainable Business development and output 4 Fostering employment & Employability
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The Ecuadorian business sector is betting on the prevention of violence against women
Violence against women is, unfortunately, a reality for 7 out of 10 Ecuadorian women, and it is up to all of us to fight for change (INEC, 2019). The business sector needs to get involved too! The numbers speak for…
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Indo-German Energy Programme – Access to Energy in Rural Areas (IGEN ACCESS)
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Employment for Development Employment/Promotion for Women for the Green Transformation in Africa
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Combating Sexual Harassment: Empowering Labour Market Actors in the Agri-Food Sector in Western Kenya
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Revolutionizing Urban Mobility through Gender Transformative Interventions in India
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Alliances for Trade Facilitation (A4TF): Sensitization for Women in Cross Border Trade Ghana
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Textilarbeiterinnen in Bangladesch: Faktenbasierte Pfade zur Überwindung struktureller Benachteiligung von Frauen
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Holistic Approach: Highlighting the DIGITS-wide Initiative ‘DIGITS… ist bunt’
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