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GIZ Bangladesh organised 16 days half day event against gender-based violence on 10 December 2025 on the theme “Together we End Gender-based Digital Violence” at Six Seasons Hotel. The event commenced with the Introduction speech by Dr Petra Lahann, Cluster…
20251211_GIZ LOCAFEM_Policy Brief This LOCAFEM Policy Brief synthesises key findings from research in Ghana, India, and Ukraine on how local feminist movements act as powerful levers for transformative gender equality. It highlights intersectional, context-sensitive approaches and the central role of…
Are you wondering how feminist grassroots movements work towards gender equality and how we can learn from them? Read our newly published research emanating from the GIZ-initiated measure ‘Local Feminist Perspectives as Levers for Transformation in Partner Countries’ (LOCAFEM)! The…
Un mentorat dans les énergies renouvelables, des messages vidéo de modèles féminins du secteur numérique, des études d’impact, des formations de sensibilisation sur la violence basée sur le genre, la sensibilisation du personnelle éducatif et des parents … Toutes ces…
The GIZ Bangladesh Gender Working Group has organised a series of events in commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) and Gender Month 2025. This year the slogan is Rights, Equality, and Empowerment for ALL. Colleagues wore purple and took pictures holding…
In the light of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, GIZ Rwanda is hosting the art exhibition #LetsTalkPERIOD to raise awareness that we need to end stigma and taboos around Gender-Based Violence and menstruation. The exhibition highlights…
On Thursday 13 March 2025, from 11:00 to 12:30 (CET), the regular EU INTPA Info Point will focus on the experience from the ICR Facility, a Team Europe project led by the GIZ, that supports African, Caribbean and Pacific countries…
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…
As part of GIZ Gender Focus March 2025, here in GIZ Pakistan we have launched a picture campaign to highlight our commitment to gender equality and inclusivity. Inspired by the 2025 International Women’s Day theme—”For All Women and Girls: Rights,…
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…
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…
To familiarise all colleagues with the new GIZ gender strategy and to give an overview of the adaptation of the strategy for Madagascar. (online session open to all)
In the context of International Women’s Month, we are happy to invite you to our workshop on “Conflict Sensitivity & Do No Harm”! In the workshop you will be able to revisit the concept of “Conflict Sensitivity” and learn about…
A Gender Transformative Approach session is lined up by GIZ Bangladesh Gender Working Group as an activity for the Gender Month 2025 at 10th March from 12:00 pm to 13:00 pm. In this interactive session we will delve into the principles and…
We cordially invite you to an upcoming webinar co-hosted by Siemens Stiftung and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), on the new learning portal “Academy for Impact”: Women Empowerment: Social Entrepreneurship in Menstrual Hygiene and Female Health – African…
GIZ India Gender Focus March 2025 GIZ GENDER KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE MEET ꟾ GSDP GENDER EQUALITY and WOMENS EMPOWERMENT STUDY FINDINGS Organized by Indo-German Partnership for Green and Sustainable Development (GSDP) GIZ India recently carried out a study on the effective…
The methodology emerges as an innovative proposal in response to the limitations of traditional gender training approaches for public servants and private sector employees. Developed from the Conversápolis exchange space, facilitated by GIZ/German Cooperation, this methodology aims to overcome the…
GIZ India Gender Focus March 2025 : Understanding and De-coding the NEW GIZ GENDER STRATEGY 2025 – 2029 Considering GIZ’s commitment towards ensuring Gender Equality as a quality aspect of our work, a new GIZ Gender Strategy has been launched…
It is with great pride that we announce the end of this edition of our “Gender Diversity Management” process, which brought together 10 companies committed to promoting gender diversity and inclusion in the workplace. For several months, we worked…
Imagine a prevention method that is not only educational, but also incredibly “cool”, as Dhanna B., a student at the María Auxiliadora School in Macas, tells us. What makes Game Over so special? It is a unique blended learning experience,…
More than a third of female professors and students in Ecuadorian universities claim have been assaulted by their (ex) partners and members of the university community. And almost a third of male students and lecturers admit having assaulted their (ex)…
In many families in Serbia, it is assumed that a women will leave her parents’ home when marrying and join the family of her husband. To ensure that family property remains inside the family, women are encouraged and often…
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…
The BMZ’s Feminist Development Policy (FDP) stands exemplary in the global effort to address gender disparity at its core via transformative approaches. At its heart, the FDP targets the very roots of inequality, aiming to dismantle gender-based power imbalances entrenched…
In celebration of GIZ Gender Month, the Regional Project Sport for Development in Africa is hosting an online Sport for Gender Equality session. We adapted one of our trainings to fit an online format and are excited to share our…
Exciting news! 🗣 The next premiere of Women Mobilize Women’s highly anticipated webinar series in collaboration with Mobycon is just around the corner! In this webinar series, we dive into topics surrounding the intersectionality of gender and mobility. In episode…
As part of this year’s GIZ Egypt Gender Month, we’re thrilled to invite you to an interactive webinar addressing an increasingly relevant topic: (Gender) Intersectionality! An intersectional approach puts the perspective of the marginalized person or group front and center…
The TUEWAS Women Expert database is a crowd-sourced database of women experts working in transport, energy, water, environment/climate, and urbanism. As women are notoriously underrepresented in Asian scientific conferences and policy events, as well as consultancy work, especially those not…
Through the Lense of Intersectionality: Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities as an Integral Component of Feminist Policies If you leaf through our clients’ most recent strategic documents, it becomes clear: whether Feminist Development Policy, the Human Rights Concept of German…
En Centroamérica todavía existen brechas de equidad entre hombres y mujeres, resolver estas diferencias significaría un incremento del 10% del PIB de la región. Varios indicadores demuestran que persisten desigualdades entre hombres y mujeres, tales como las tasas de participación…
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…
The project ResPEct in cooperation with Nonviolent Peaceforce and Men for Women is organising a radio show on the topic “Access to Resources for Women and Girls”. A South Sudanese gender equality activist and two Gender Champions will discuss questions…
‘AIZ Gender Training – Gender in Practice’- For GIZ India in New Delhi, India GIZ India in collaboration with AIZ has organized the Gender in Practice Training for our cluster colleagues in New Delhi, India. This in-person training takes place…
In light of Germany’s Feminist Development Policy and GIZ’s commitment towards ensuring Gender Equality is a quality aspect of our work, the FMB Department Gender Team has developed a GTA Self-Assessment Tool that can be applied by interested project/program teams.…
GIZ India – ‘Gender in Agrivoltaics’ – Knowledge Exchange Meet Agrivoltaics, the practice of having solar panels and food crops on the same land is a topic that is steadily gaining traction globally! To get ourselves ahead of the curve,…
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…
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 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…