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We deliver advice on economic policy issues and, with our partners, find solutions to develop the private sector and boost employment. We create local, pro-poor financial systems to give everyone the opportunity to share the benefits of economic development and economic growth.

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CONNEX: getting a better deal
CONNEX supports governments in their negotiations with the private sector. Its work is having an impact: contracts are better, tax revenue is higher and due regard is given to environmental regulations.
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The cotton kick
Nine German football clubs, a textile manufacturer, 450 family-run farms in India, Fairtrade and GIZ have teamed up to produce fan merchandise made of sustainable cotton. Views on the From Field to Fan Shop initiative.
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Driving innovation together: Start-ups in NRW and Nigeria
North Rhine-Westphalia promotes exchange between young entrepreneurs from Nigeria and NRW.
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Global poverty: just how unfair is the world?
The various crises in recent years have hit countries in the Global South particularly hard and widened the gap between rich and poor.
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‘SAP and GIZ – a Dream Team’
Interview with Klaus Schimmer, Chief Innovation Architect Sustainability at SAP. He reports on a successful cooperative project in Armenia.
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Skilled workers from Kerala for Wolfratshausen
How an Indian nurse and a district hospital in the foothills of the German Alps came together: Triple Win explained – experience with placing skilled workers.
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Anna Sophie Herken, GIZ Managing Director ‘Digitalisation must serve the common good’

‘Digitalisation must serve the common good’

GIZ Managing Director Anna Sophie Herken on the status of digitalisation in international cooperation – and what re:publica has to do with it
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Mark Robinson Knut Neerland

‘Our mission is relevant and valid’
Interview with Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international organisation and GIZ partner that works against corruption in a highly profitable sector
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Rashi Gupta Julian Rentzsch

‘We need more feminine energy’
Drei Fragen an Rashi Gupta, Gründerin und Geschäftsführerin von Vision Mechatronics, einem führenden Unternehmen in den Bereichen Robotik, erneuerbare Energien und Energiespeicherung in Indien
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Dirk Messner Susanne Kambor

‘Without digitalisation we cannot achieve the climate goals’
An interview with Professor Dirk Messner, President of the German Environment Agency, on climate action and digitalisation
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The goal: fair and decent work for all
Michael Holländer explains why work is a topic for GIZ, how the company promotes training and employment and what link this has to skilled workers for Germany.
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Heidy Rombouts GIZ/Iris Felicia Haidau

‘Investment in our common future’
Heidy Rombouts, Director General of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, in an interview on Belgium’s EU Council Presidency
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