Healthy DEvelopments
Germany’s commitment to health and social protection
Recent stories
Child leaning on a donkey in the Kingdom of Lesotho
One Health: BMZ’s new commitment to tackling a multidimensional crisis
Date
April 12, 2021
Emerging infectious disease outbreaks like Ebola, Zika or the new Coronavirus cast a glaring light on the dangers of ‘zoonoses’ – infectious diseases transmitted between…
Meeting about universal health coverage in Bangkok, 2019
‘I’m paid to change things, not keep the status quo’
Date
April 8, 2021
On the eve of his retirement, Paul Rückert looks back at an eventful career After 28 years leading German-supported health programmes across Asia, Paul Rückert…
WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (middle) with Jens Spahn (left), Federal Minister of Health, Germany and Olivier Veran (right), Minister for Solidarity and Health, France, during a meeting for ministers of health in June 2020
World Health Day: Germany’s commitment to a fairer, healthier world
Date
April 6, 2021
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, how does German Development Cooperation support access to health worldwide?
Dr. Natalia Kanem (UNFPA) and Dr. Maria Flachsbarth (BMZ) launch the Strategic Dialogue
Germany and UNFPA agree to deepen their collaboration
Date
March 30, 2021
In a ground-breaking first Strategic Dialogue, Germany and UNFPA agreed to intensify their cooperation on promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights and on enhancing…
Waling Municipal Recovery Center (c) GIZ Umong Shahi
Tackling healthcare waste on the top of the world
Date
March 30, 2021
Not long ago in Nepal, like in many other lower-middle income countries, healthcare waste – from personal protective equipment, such as gloves and gowns, to used swabs and bandages, expired drugs, needles, laboratory reagents and chemicals –…
TB outreach workers in Lagos, Nigeria getting ready to collect sputum samples and raise TB awareness in their community.
World TB Day: Germany’s commitment to ending tuberculosis
Date
March 23, 2021
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, how does German Development Cooperation contribute to halting the deadliest infectious disease?
Group handwashing
Cambodian schools aim for the stars
Date
March 18, 2021
A simple approach to monitoring water, sanitation and hygiene standards is triggering action
AIMAS communication campaign on COVID-19 prevention
Time to keep an eye on the bigger picture of infectious diseases
Date
February 25, 2021
A podcast on why Covid-19 must not divert attention and resources from other infectious disease challenges in Africa.
Recent case studies
Extending work-related SP to informal workers in Pakistan
Extending work-related social protection to informal workers in Pakistan’s Punjab province
Summary of a scoping study by Martina Bergthaller
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Working in Partnership for Social Health Protection in Pakistan
A closer look at German-supported capacity development measures
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Digitalising Nepal’s health sector
A country’s journey towards an interoperable digital health ecosystem
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A software for disease surveillance and outbreak response
Insights from implementing SORMAS in Nigeria and Ghana
Our mission
On Healthy DEvelopments development practitioners working in BMZ-funded projects share innovative approaches, tried and tested interventions, and insights generated in response to development challenges.
Healthy DEvelopments acknowledges that development initiatives unfold in complex environments and that programmes and projects need to continuously adapt and respond to the dynamics and conditions of their local contexts.
We aim to accompany and document incremental learning processes, moving away from ‘best practices’ towards ‘learning from implementation’ as a basis for adaptive, locally-defined solutions.