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Self-employed, not unemployed
On the West Bank, where jobs are scarce, vocational schools are helping young adults to find success on the labour market.
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A continent in transition
Africa is the continent of opportunity – economic, political and cultural. But how can it make the most of its potential?
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A fresh start with milk
Farming families in Sri Lanka are rebuilding their country’s dairy industry after years of civil war.
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Tree sap brings prosperity
The state and local population are co-managers of a conservation area in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Every drop counts
GIZ is helping local institutions in the Palestinian territories to make better use of what little water there is.
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Information and background

  • Great opportunities and diversity

    Africa is far from a monotonous region that will never succeed. The infographic shows opportunities and challenges.

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  • ‘Africa can capture the century’

    Kandeh Yumkella has left a high-ranking position at the United Nations in order to push for progress in Sierra Leone.

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  • Settlement for returnees

    In 1998, GIZ was commissioned to create temporary settlement for refugees returning from Germany to Bosnia.

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  • A passion to teach

    In Afghanistan there is a shortage of well-qualified vocational school teachers. A reform is now improving prospects.

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  • Milk for Morocco

    GIZ in co-creation with Centrale Danone is helping farmers to improve the quality of their milk and to boost their income.

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  • An app to improve safety

    Violence against women is a major problem in Latin America. Companies are providing support to achieve change.

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Highlights

Agenda 2030
Some progress, more work ahead
In the past two decades, the world has made major progress in many areas.
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‘Stop saying nothing has changed!’
Tunisians should be more proud of what they have achieved after the Arab Spring, says Amel Karboul.
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‘We overstate the negative’
Max Roser studies living conditions worldwide. He sees a clear upward trend: conditions are improving – if we take the long view.
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A compass – even in times of crisis
Agenda 2030 is a plan of action to ensure that all the world’s people can live in dignity, freedom and in a healthy environment.
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Facts and figures

  • trillion passenger kilometres are expected to be accounted for by global passenger transportation in 2030.

  • Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference in Berlin in November 2016

  • of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in a relationship, making these some of the most widespread human rights violations.

  • G20 Leaders’ Communiqué, Hangzhou Summit, September 2016

  • people could be in full-time employment in the maritime industry by 2030. This industry currently employs more than 31 million people.

  • Women face discrimination also after their working lives. Proportion of women and men of retirement who receive a pension.

  • Katja Iversen, President/CEO of Women Deliver at the organisation’s fourth international conference in Copenhagen in May 2016

  • The conditions for entrepreneurs vary greatly, as the diagram on the average time required to start a business shows.

  • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, on Africa Human Rights Day

Insight
Airy image
A roof of white cotton: taken near Dhaka in Bangladesh, this photograph creates the illusion of being in a giant four-poster bed. A woman hangs out lengths of cotton to dry, before they are taken for processing in a dye shop. The airy image is deceptive – many employees at the textile factories in Bangladesh work in onerous conditions.
Photo: dpa/pa
Flying high