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…
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Breaking Barriers: Women and Power – Towards Equality
GIZ Serbia is organising a panel discussion “Breaking Barriers: Women and Power – Towards Equality”. The event will give a deeper insight into the history of women’s movement in Serbia and the position of women in modern Serbia in three…
GIZ India Gender Focus March 2025 : GSDP Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment Study Findings
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…
Table ronde autour du thème de la journée
Le Projet Forêt Environnement et Climat a tenue à célébrer la femme à son bureau situé au Carrefour Golf à Yaoundé suivant deux orientations. La première était orienté sur la compréhension des concepts clés lié au genre. En effet à…
ICM-Lesotho: The Role of Women in Natural Resource Management
The Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) programme in Lesotho commemorates this year’s International Women´s Day with a Community-Dialogue on the role of women in natural resource management (NRM). The goal of the ICM programme is the sustainable management of land and…
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…
Innovando en el procesamiento y transformación de la paja toquilla
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GIZ INDIA ꟾ Gender Knowledge Exchange Meet – Learning Together – Gender in Agrivoltaics
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,…
Joint Gender Transformative Approaches Working Group (GTA-WG)
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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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Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im Rohstoffsektor für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation
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Renforcement de la résilience des femmes à travers les cultures de diversification
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Importance of Research and Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming in a Sustainable Economic Development Project
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¡Intercambio de saberes entre y para mujeres! Una apuesta por la incidencia política, económica y social de mujeres rurales en Colombia.
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The Investment Climate Reform (ICR) Facility: Making Business easier for Women
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Indo-German Energy Programme – Access to Energy in Rural Areas (IGEN ACCESS)
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Small Steps Towards an Empowered Tomorrow
Check out the knowledge product ‘Small Steps Towards an Empowered Tomorrow’, compiled by the Gender Working Group, Natural Resource Management and Agroecology (NRMAE), GIZ India. The Working Group primarily supports projects in its activities towards gender sensitisation, gender equality and…
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Gender Month Mozambique 2023
In Mozambique, a full Gender Month is being celebrated every year between March, the 8th (International Women Day) and April, the 7th (Mozambican Women Day). In 2023, GIZ Mozambique and EnDev were elected to follow the main theme of the…
Increasing women’s participation in ICT – Techher
7th March, 1:00 – 2:00 pm GMT 30-minute online presentation on MS Teams – “increasing women’s participation in ICT” (experience sharing from TECHHER – a Nigerian based NGO). The presentation is facilitated by the GIZ MOVE project working in both…
Lauching Central Asia Feminist Development Team
We are launching our CAFD Team. Our mission is to raise awareness about feminist development policy; inform and support the operationalisation of feminist development policiy in our work across Central Asia and to set an example of creative and innovative…
Causerie éducative “Vers une amélioration de l’accès au financement agricole pour les femmes”
Au Cameroun, 85 % de la population pauvre vit dans les zones rurales. Les trois quarts de la population rurale travaillent dans l’agriculture. Pourtant, les potentiels de rendement ne sont pas exploités en raison du manque de disponibilité d’intrants de…
Feminist Approaches in Alternative Development: The Case of Albania
14. March, 08:00-09:00 CET, Vienna International Center This side event is held in the margins of the 66th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and organized by GIZ’s Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD). It…
GIZ INDIA ꟾ Gender Knowledge Exchange Meet – Learning Together – Toolkit for Gender Transformative Approaches for Rural Development
MONDAY, MARCH 6th – 14:30 – 15:30 pm (IST), 10:00 – 11:00 (CET) GIZ INDIA – GENDER KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE MEET Learning Together : Tool Kit for Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) for Rural Development Sector Network on Rural Development (SNRD) Asia…
Daycare Center as A Coping Mechanism for Working Parents in Dhaka City: A Study on Social Perception
With the increasing female employment and changing demographical structure, parents are looking for alternative childcare options. Thus the service of daycare centers is getting popular in urban settings of Bangladesh. A study by Tabassum (2017) attempts to find out the…
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“Support of Regional Economic Cooperation in Asia (SRECA)” brings together Chinese, German and Mongolian women entrepreneurs
In 2022, “Support of Regional Economic Cooperation in Asia (SRECA)” brings together Chinese, German and Mongolian women entrepreneurs for the second time. Last year, the SRECA project, which is implemented by GIZ on behalf of the BMZ, initiated a triangular…
Genderrollen transformieren, Gleichberechtigung erreichen
GIZ Gender Award 2022 1st Prize GM category
Indo-German Energy Programme – Access to Energy in Rural Areas (IGEN ACCESS)
1. Rationale of Intervention – Setting the Context Around 700 million people in India gained access to electricity between 2000 and 2018. This reflects strong and effective policy implementation efforts by various players (International Energy Agency, 2021). But providing reliable…
Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food sector Kenya
Introduction In Kenya, agriculture, inclusive of the subsectors of forestry and fishing, is an important sector of the economy that accounts for around 29% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Thirty-six (36%) per cent of the population lives below the…
Shaking up the Status Quo, Shaping Gender-Transformative Change! Read the latest GTA publication
How do we effectively work towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in our projects? Read the latest publication of the SNRD working group on Gender-Transformative Approaches (GTA) to find out! As part of SNRD Africa and the Sector Network Natural Resources and…
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Video to promote formal land usage rights
8 March | video publication – French|
Awareness raising video for formal land usage rights in Benin
Roundtable Discussion Concerning Gender Equality
12 March | Private event for project members in Mongolia |
Discussion on how we can support gender equality initiatives with access to training, events, and workshops.
Mujeres indígenas, acceso a la justicia y COVID-19
12 March | 19.00 CET | online event for GIZ staff |
Reflect on the justiciability of the rights of indigenous women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oaxaca; in order to mainstream the perspectives of interculturality; racism, gender and legal pluralism in its various lines of work.
Ganadería sustentable de montaña con equidad e inclusión de género
10 March | 18.00 CET | Gender Working group Mexico and Climate Change Cluster |
Provide a productive alternative with equity and gender inclusion, to improve the quality of life of mountain inhabitants through the sustainable use of their natural resources.
Building Back Better – With Gender-Responsive Infrastructure
10 March | 15.30 CET | online event for GIZ staff |
Highlighting the great challenges and great potential of Gender-Responsive Infrastructure to build back better.
Online Conference “Access of women in rural areas to property rights”
26 February | Online conference for invited guests |
The online conference focused on increasing the cooperation for active promotion of positive examples of gender equality, establishment of mechanisms for education and information of the women from the rural areas for their economic and social development.
Mes de la Equidad, la Igualdad y la Justicia de Género en la GIZ Bolivia y Paraguay
All week | private events for GIZ Paraguay and Bolivia staff and one public song competition |
One week full of activities, events and competitions about gender equality
Women Economic Empowerment – Best Practices from Zambia’s Agricultural Projects
17 March | 09.00 – 11.00 CET | Virtual event |
If you ever wondered what role Women Economic Empowerment can play in your project, hop in and get inspired!
Women Success Stories from South East Europe
To promote economic empowerment of rural women through the support of women entrepreneurship, it is crucial that women are informed about property rights, in particular in relation to agriculture businesses. This collection of success stories from women from South East…
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Women in Agriculture
Workshop in a rural area such as Ersekë, Albania, with the participation of local producers, business women, professors from the University of Agriculture. There will be talks and discussions regarding the challenges that women face regarding entrepreneurship in agriculture field.…
Women in Mining Photo Exhibition
During March we will host a photo exhibition in Bonn (in front of the Mäanderkantine) showing different women working in artisanal and small-scale Mining in Westafrica. Learn about how the mining sector affects women and girls differently than men and…