Midwives can deliver up to 90% of essential maternal and newborn health services. GIZ’s support in Malawi, Nepal, and Sierra Leone highlights how investing in midwifery—through regulation, education, and mentorship—can save lives, expand access to services, and strengthen health systems.
Stronger midwives, healthier communities Mehr lesen
From rainforest loss to zoonotic spillovers: discover why DRC is a global One Health hotspot, and what actions are taken to protect the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
Biodiversity and biosecurity Why One Health matters in the Democratic Republic of Congo Mehr lesen
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of infectious diseases is accelerating under the combined pressures of climate change, urbanisation, ecosystem degradation and other factors. GIZ’s One Health Data Alliance Africa (OHDAA) project, has been focusing on addressing these systemic barriers to unlock the transformational potential of data for health security in Africa and by extension, the world.
Digital Public Infrastructure for Health Security: Operationalising One Health in Africa Mehr lesen
When a disease passes from an animal to a person in a remote village in West Africa, it may sound like a local issue. But in today’s connected world, it can quickly spread across countries and continents.
Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Starts Mehr lesen
Partnerships between openIMIS and academic institutions create a win-win building local digital capacity, embedding digital public goods in health and social protection systems, and strengthening the long-term evolution of openIMIS.
At the “Partnering for Efficiency: Strengthening Collaboration in Health Financing and Digital Health in Times of Resource Constraints” side event, hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), global health leaders showcased how smart, digitally powered partnerships can help countries build stronger, more equitable health systems – even when resources are tight.
The Digital and Financial Literacy Training (DFLT) programme equips women across Sindh (Pakistan) with practical financial and digital skills, enabling them to manage household resources effectively, access government support, and make informed decisions. By integrating climate-smart adaptive practices, the programme helps women prepare for and respond to climate-related shocks such as floods, heat waves, and other extreme weather events, strengthening both household and community resilience.
Women play a critical role in developing the digital technologies that underpin the delivery of social protection systems, but remain underrepresented and often undervalued in their field. Women working at the nexus of digital technology and social protection reflect on challenges they face and opportunities to encourage more women into tech careers.
Gender equity in tech is essential for stronger social protection systems Mehr lesen
When cloudbursts devastated parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, many families lost not only their homes but also their identity documents and access to social protection systems. With support from German Development Cooperation to strengthen Pakistan’s adaptive social protection, Benazir Income Support Programme’s Mobile Registration Vans travelled into cut-off villages to provide on-the-spot registration and ensure that even the most isolated households could reconnect with government support.
Mobile Registration Vans: Reaching the Unreachable After Disaster Mehr lesen
At the World Health Summit, leaders from WHO, BMZ, Gavi, ATscale, Special Olympics, Mohammend Bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity and organizations of persons with disabilities called for practical steps to make disability inclusion core to universal health coverage. From data gaps to assistive technology, and from global commitments to local realities, the message was clear: equity requires design, investment and accountability so that 1.3 billion people with disabilities are not left behind. And a global movement with diverse stakeholders working together is needed to mobilize these needed resources.
Beyond the Gap: A Health System for All Mehr lesen
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