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Local Flood Early Warning Systems - Experiences from the Philippines
Introduction This manual is based on the experience of German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in a project supporting the establishment of Local Flood Early Warning Systems. The European Commission and...
Sustainable Economic Development in Conflict-Affected Environments: A Guidebook
Between 2004 and 2008, almost two in three partner countries of German development cooperation experienced violent conflicts or the immediate aftermath of such conflicts. Crisis prevention and...
EU project 'Aid for Peru': Delegation agreement signed
On 30 October, Ambassador Antonio Cardoso, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Peru, and Wilfried Liehr, GTZ Country Director in Peru, signed an agreement officially mandating GTZ to...
DR Congo: Making wooden boats for peacebuilding
The eastern province of Maniema in the Democratic Republic of Congo was - and continues to be - particularly severely affected by fighting. Water and electricity supplies function only sporadically...
Ethiopia: Food security through resource conservation
"The earth was dried out, not a leaf growing anywhere," recalls Gerenchael Giday from Abrha Atsebha, in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. The once fertile soil around his village was marked by...
Afghanistan: The sun delivers water
Drinking water supply in Afghanistan What seems a contradiction at first glance is a reality in Badashkhan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan. One pump, powered by electricity from 39 solar...
Sierra Leone: Back to the future
A ceasefire is now in place in the Kailahun district of eastern Sierra Leone, but there are hundreds of thousands of largely young, unemployed internally displaced persons, most of them in the...
Sri Lanka + 2 more
Two years on - GTZ looks back on the tsunami recovery process
Banda Aceh: Before the tsunami, combatants belonging to the Free Aceh separatist movement (GAM) used to produce weapons. Today, they are using old bullet cases to make other things, such as ship...
Indonesia: GTZ - Aceh rehabilitation and reconstruction programme
The Elements of the Aceh Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Programme Since the firstweeks after the tsunamiGTZhas been providing substantial humanitarian and reconstruction assistance in Aceh. By far...
Niger: GTZ is active in the struggle against desertification and hunger
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought Eschborn, 14 June 2006. The halting of desertification and reclaiming of valuable farmland are important prerequisites for sustainable development. The...
Burundi + 2 more
BMZ State Secretary Karin Kortmann visits Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi
Karin Kortmann, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), undertook a five-day fact-finding mission at the end of March that took her to...
Philippines: Aid to the survivors of the Leyte landslide
Eschborn, 7 March 2006. The German Government has allocated €50,000 in humanitarian aid to the survivors of the landslide on the Philippine island of Leyte. The German embassy in Manila has...
New prospects for former child soldiers in the DR Congo
Trading in a gun for a lathe Baluku is now 19 years old. Standing there in the little workshop, he looks proudly at the youngsters he is training in carpentry, who are busily at work. Like him, they...
Pakistan + 1 more
Earthquake relief in Pakistan: Winterproof accommodation for earthquake survivors
Eschborn, 29.12.05. Many villages in Pakistan's Siran Valley at the foot of the Himalayas were almost completely levelled by the earthquake on 8 October. In cooperation with the Pakistan NGO HAASHAR,...
Sri Lanka: Rebuilding in paradise - One year after the tsunami
Launching des ARTE-Themenabends von Milka Pavlicevic Just under one year ago, a giant tidal wave swept over the coasts of South-East Asia, claiming the lives of over 200,000 people. But the...
Impending famine in Malawi
More than four million people, most of them in southern Malawi, are threatened with food shortages, according to the Malawian Government. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic...
Reconstruction in southern Sudan
After over twenty years of civil war, the Sudanese people are daring to hope again. In January 2005 a peace agreement was signed between the Muslim Arab government in Khartoum and the Christian...
Niger: GTZ's long-term activities to combat hunger
First came the drought, then the locusts, and now famine: the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has reacted quickly, providing EUR 1,500,000 to be used by the...
GTZ emergency aid in Sri Lanka
From the start of the crisis, some 230 GTZ employees have been providing emergency aid to the coastal regions devastated by the tsunami. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic...