Interviews

From education for sustainable development to the climate crisis, and feminist development policy to conflict transformation: akzente addresses the many facets of international cooperation. National and international experts share their views and new perspectives.

‘Our objective: sustainable trading partnerships’

Three questions for agricultural expert Inoka Nilmini Wanasinghe from the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB)

‘If I start a business, it must support women’

Three questions for entrepreneur María Fernanda Ávila about her company and her motivation to do something to counter violence against women in Ecuador

‘Promoting gender rights across continents’

The German Federal Foreign Office has introduced a new feminist foreign policy. Renata Giannini from the Unidas Women’s Network explains how it could influence German-Latin American relations.

‘Infected inmates suffer twofold’

Three questions for the Congolese doctor Danny Badila about the situation of prisoners living with tuberculosis

‘For girls and women, not against men’

James Macbeth Forbes, GIZ Country Director in Uganda, explains why feminist development policy is important for everyone.

‘Safe menstrual hygiene is linked to educational opportunities’

Cleophas Mugenyi and Angella Nansubuga from Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports talk about hygiene education, stigmas and the role played by the Sanitation for Millions programme.

‘The UN Biodiversity Conference was unexpectedly a great success’

The international community adopted the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Silke Spohn explains its strengths and weaknesses, and what it means for GIZ.

‘The nation as a whole will need support’

Valentyna Mazhbits works at the Berlin Charité for the Solomiya Hospital Partnership project to support psychiatric hospitals in Ukraine.

‘I hope for clear, strong targets’

In an interview with akzente, GIZ Managing Director Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven speaks about the importance of biodiversity and the global conference on the subject in Montreal.

How to revolutionise recycling in Jordan

Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment of Jordan, Dr Mohammed Al Khashashneh, on the concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR)

‘The loss of biodiversity is destroying the very foundations of our existence’

Scientist Katrin Böhning-Gaese on extinction and why we urgently need to put an end to it.

‘The results are mixed’

Jörg Linke, Head of GIZ’s Competence Centre for Climate Change, reports on the results of COP27 in Egypt.