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…
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TUEWAS Women Expert Database
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…
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…
Gender & Religion – NICD Working Group Gender
NICD WG Gender invites you to a WG meeting and talk on Gender & Religion with the Sector Project Religion for sustainable Development, Project Equal Opportunities and Social Development (EOSD) in Egypt and Islamic Relief Germany 13th March 2024, 10.30-12.00…
BMZ Gender Action Plan 2023 – 2027 – Introduction and way forward
Dear colleagues, on December 2023 the BMZ launched its 3rd Development Action Plan on Gender Equality (BMZ GAP III). It translates the German Feminist Development Strategy into concrete measures for the years 2023 to 2027 and provides concrete guidance on…
GIZ LNOB Innovation Forum: LNOB, Inequality and Fiscal Policy
FISCAL POLICIES MATTER! RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GENDER-TRANSFORMATIVE TAX-POLICY. “The wealth of the world’s five richest billionaires has more than doubled since the start of this decade, while 60% of humanity has grown poorer”. Inequality INC, Oxfam International January 2024 In times…
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,…
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, ……
Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im Rohstoffsektor für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation
34_Deutsch_GG1_GLOBE_Geschlechtergerechtigkeit Rohstoffsektor
Weblog article: “Creating ‘Integrated and safe neighbourhoods for all’ through international peer learning exchange”
Creating public spaces in which all genders and vulnerable groups feel safe is a task of global significance. What works and what doesn’t in implementing this goal is therefore not limited to one place or project. On the contrary, projects…
Weblog article: „Navigating the Concrete Jungle: The Gender Divide in Urban Life”
Different genders experience cities in distinct ways. Nine out of ten women feel unsafe in public spaces, they continue to face inaccessibility, insecurity and various forms of sexual harassment and violence. In her Urbanet article Paula Meth addresses the intersection…
Weblog Article: „Leave No One Behind – Including Marginalised Communities Through Inclusive Urban Planning”
The “Leave No One Behind” (LNOB) principle is crucial for many projects and has positive effects from which both the marginalised groups and the project itself benefit. In her article, Hannah Schabert, who is part of the “Experts for Partners”…
Weblog Article: „Feminist Urbanism: Smashing the Patriarchy in Urban Design”
The spatial component of feminism is often underestimated. In her article „Feminist Urbanism: Smashing the Patriarchy in Urban Design” Sneha Visakha, legal researcher and host of the “Feminist City Podcast”, raises the questions who cities are made for, who makes…
LIVE TALK: Exploring New Frontiers in Gender-Smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance Policymaking: A Toolkit
Exploring New Frontiers in Gender-Smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance Policymaking: A Toolkit 8 March 2023, 14:30- 15:30 (CET) About the Webinar This is the sixth session of a LIVE TALK series on Gender and Climate Risk Finance jointly hosted by the…
Rights, resources, representation: Indigenous women and girls in German development cooperation
Dear colleagues, Indigenous women and girls play a key role as leaders, knowledge-bearers, and human rights and environmental defenders. At the same time, Indigenous women and girls face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence. Nationally and internationally,…
MenstruAction Updates 2023 – Info Session
Dear GIZ colleagues, the GIZ staff initiative MenstruAction invites you to a general info session on Friday 3rd of March from 10 to 10.30 CET to inform you about the planned activities and products in 2023 and around the worldwide…
Water Women’s Day
We as the SuSanA Secretariat are delighted to jointly host a virtual Water Women’s Day on Tuesday, 7 March with the wonderful women’s networks. We believe as water women we are Stronger Together and we would love to invite you…
Webinario: “Como producir un curso en linea, sin morir en el intento”
Objetivo: Colegas de la GIZ en Latinoamérica y el Caribe conocerán en la práctica el proceso de producción de un curso de aprendizaje en línea. Conversarán sobre los desafíos y las soluciones en las diferentes etapas y se intercambian sobre…
Rethinking the digital economy for gender justice and decent work
GIZ’s project ‘Future of Work’ and ILO invite you to the webinar series, taking a closer look at the realities and future of women’s work in the digital economy. After a very successful first session, the second webinar will take…
Feminist Development Policy in practice – Are you familiar with GIZs Gender Tools?
Feminist Development Policy in practice – Are you familiar with GIZs Gender Tools? Mittwoch, 8. März 2023 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien Find the outlook invitation in our Gender Network calendar: Ereignis (sharepoint.com)…
Genderrollen transformieren, Gleichberechtigung erreichen
GIZ Gender Award 2022 1st Prize GM category
InsuResilience Center of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions
Gender Award 2022 2nd Prize GG1 category
From understanding to action to policy: How gender-sensitive corruption prevention and women’s economic empowerment reinforce each other
GIZ Gender Award 2022 1st Prize GG1 category
The shadow pandemic: Online and ICT*-facilitated violence against women and girls during COVID-19
10 March | 14.00-15.00 CET | GIZ online event |
When women and girls do have access to the Internet, they face online violence more often than men in many different ways. Research and activists confirm that this problem has increased during the Covid-19.
Diversifying development and foreign policy: Presentation LGBTI Inclusion Strategy of the German Government
12 March | 14.00 – 15.00 CET | public virtual event on MS Teams |
Members of the AA and BMZ will present the background, emergence and adoption of the LGBTI Inclusion Strategy and explain its goals, overarching approaches for development cooperation and foreign policy.
Campaign #womenmobilize
All of March | virtual activities, publication launch, #womenmobilize |
Follow the Hashtag #womenmobilize on Social Media to stay updated with new campaigns, insights and events! Publication of the third “Remarkable Women in Transport”
Podcats from Space – Live Recording with Women Mobilize Women
9 March | 15.00 – 15:30 CET | Virtual event for GIZ staff |
In the framework of GIZ Gender Week, we would like to introduce you to our new podcast and give you the chance to be part of our conversation
The implications of Emerging Tech on Gender Equality – Workshop
14 April | 09.30 – 11.30 CET | this is a virtual event with limited spaces – RSVP by email to register |
In this Workshop, we want to understand the implications of disruptive technologies concerning gender equality. Together we will outline the impact on gender equality that may infer from the technologies listed in the Tech Detector.
Kick-off: IDA Community MAP & Employment
Kick-off: IDA Community MAP & Employment 6.3.2019, 14:00-15:30, CET Finding work, but how? When an applicant has secured a job abroad, but their partner is unable to find employment, plans for a foreign assignment can begin to fall apart.…
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Enabling Equality and Economic Empowerment for all Women and Girls – A Thought Leadership Roundtable around Gender and Disability
For more information on the speakers, please see the flyer: Disability and Gender event during GIZ Gender week Description of the event: One in five women globally live with disability, about 80% of them in the global south. In Zambia,…
Civil Peace Service: Women – Actors for Peace
On March 1st, the Civil Peace Service (CPS) of GIZ started the Facebook Campaign Women – Actors for Peace. Throughout the month, we will post information regarding this topic. On March 8th, two of our CPS advisors in Guatemala will take…