Gender Week 2018

Gender equality is a guiding principle and quality feature of our work. It is an engine and key attribute of a future worth living around the world.

Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment feature prominently in the 2030 Agenda, the new European Consensus on Development and the OECD Global Forum on Development and the European Development Days in 2018. With its Coalition Agreement the new German Government, which took office in March 2018, firmly put its weight behind the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Thanks to the GIZ-wide commitment, the Safeguards+Gender Management System introduced in 2016 and excellent submissions to the GIZ Gender Competition, we are well-positioned and equipped to actively contribute to the promotion of gender equality around the world.

Dirk Aßmann and Angela Langenkamp

Watch GIZ Board Member Tanja Gönner’s speech on the occasion of this year’s Gender Award Ceremony!

Have a look at the laudation of Senior World Bank Director Caren Grown!

On March 9^th Tanja Gönner, Chair of the GIZ Management Board, and Caren Grown, World Bank Group Senior Director, handed over the Gender Awards to the winners of this year’s Gender Competition in three categories: GG2, GG1 and GM.

GG2 – gender equality is the main objective of the project/programme and is fundamental is its design an expected results:

● 1 ● Programme Strengthening Women in Decision Making in Middle East 
● 1 ● Regional programme ComVoMujer in Peru

GG1 – gender equality is an important and deliberate objective of the project/programme:

● 1 ● Programme Agricultural Value Chains for Sustainable Development
● 2 ● Sector project Digitalisation for Sustainable Development
● 3 ● A develoPPP.de intervention in Ghana
● 3 ● Recovery Programme Nepal

GM – gender mainstreaming, promoting gender equality and gender competence within GIZ:

● 1 ● Gender Focal Points in Indonesia
● 2 ● ‘Gender Circle’ in Morocco
● 3 ● Risk-Management-Office in Pakistan

Get involved and stay engaged!

GIZ Colleagues, Register and become a member of the IDA Gender Network: join now!

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