Social development

Education is a powerful driver of development. We promote formal and informal education in preschool, basic education and university education. To make optimal use of the potential of young people, we develop concepts for economic and social integration and empowerment of youth.

  • Every dose counts
    Tablets with the emmunize app and a connection to the electronic patient register are improving health care
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  • ‘Taking a holistic view of climate change and agriculture’
    The following interview with GIZ experts Christel Weller-Molongua and Jochen Renger focuses on hunger and nutrition.
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  • Light and shade
    In the years before COVID-19, the global community made great strides in education. Some of that progress is now at risk. We take a closer look.
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  • Learning for the future
    South Africa-based education and science writer Megan Lindow explains how education can make societies fit for the challenges ahead.
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  • ‘Children are eager to return to school’
    Alice Albright about the significance of learning and why children cannot wait to get back to school.
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  • Learning from the pandemic
    Using the crisis in education as an opportunity to rethink and modernise – that is the order of the day, and GIZ’s aim. A column by Michael Holländer.
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  • ‘Sport creates a connection between people’
    Olympic champion Britta Heidemann on how sport can help to overcome barriers and give children a better future.
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  • ‘Not just right but necessary’
    Aurélia Nguyen is Managing Director of the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility. In this interview, she explains why equal access to vaccines is essential to overcoming the pandemic.
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  • ‘Building self-confidence’
    An interview that looks at mental health in crisis-affected regions and at the importance of collective care
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