Guest articles

I’m Sarah Schmidt and I work as an advisor for the GIZ Fund for International Agricultural Research (FIA).

My name is Matthias Militzer. I returned to Germany at the end of last year, having spent many exciting years working as a GIZ risk manager in Afghanistan and South Sudan.

My name is Duygu Baydilli and I work in the Construction Section at GIZ. Together with more than 40 colleagues, I advise, review and approve construction projects across the world.

Bernd Schramm explains why ensuring equal participation for people with and without disabilities is important in international cooperation and how much progress has been made.

Celine Maria Becker lives and works in Indonesia as Head of the Secretariat of the German-Indonesian Digital Dialogue. Here, she reports on her everyday life.

To bring about a Just Energy Transition (JET), you have to take everyone with you and get them actively involved. On behalf of the German Government, GIZ supports a number of South African partner organisations as they embark on this journey.

Daniel Moser manages in India several transport projects implemented by GIZ. Sustainable urban mobility characterises his professional life, including in his previous position at the World Bank.

Martha Gutierrez explains how GIZ evaluates its work, what it learns from such evaluations and why no policy area in Germany is more scrutinised.

María José Rodríguez Escobar and Natalia Romero Mora bundle public relations work in Central America so that the region speaks more strongly with one voice.

Robert Hör works as an Advisor for the Digital Transformation Global Programme. He has been living in Cambodia for eight years. In akzente, he talks about his life in Phnom Penh and his work at the Digital Centre Cambodia.

Helen Witte is a trained midwife. She works as an advisor in a GIZ health project in Tanzania to improve medical care for mothers and newborns in the Tanga region.

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.