May 19, 2026
The Digital Frontline: Africa’s One Health Champions
In an era where urbanization, climate change and recurrent infectious disease outbreaks are reshaping the public health landscape across the African continent, countries face not only increasingly complex epidemiological threats but also a critical shortage of expertise required to prevent, detect and respond to them. Yet amid these challenges lies a distinct comparative advantage: a young, technologically adept population driving innovation and digital transformation across the continent. This presents a unique opportunity to leverage digital approaches to strengthen integration across One Health sectors at both continental as well as global levels.
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Promoting gender equality in social protection contributes to inclusive growth and development.
Gender is the social and cultural expression of biological sex. In all countries of the world, being born male or female shapes strikingly different destinies. Gender roles, reflecting both physical differences and complementary functions in family and community, vary widely between cultures and between epochs. However, in practically all cases, these contrasting roles give more power and freedom to males than to females.
Social protection is a human right which many women around the world are still denied. Throughout their life cycles – due to their reproductive roles and to social and cultural norms and inequalities – women go through stages of particular vulnerability. Compared to men, they are more likely to lose their income and to fall into poverty. Social protection can be a powerful tool to reduce poverty and the gender inequality with which girls and women are confronted at all ages, reducing their dependence on husbands’ cooperation to access social services such as health and old-age benefits.
Equal rights, equal duties, equal opportunities and equal power for women and men are basic principles of German development policy. Promoting gender equality is therefore a cross-cutting task for all areas of German development cooperation.
The articles and studies on this page present how German-supported projects around the world have been promoting gender equality in social protection.
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The Digital Frontline: Africa’s One Health Champions
In an era where urbanization, climate change and recurrent infectious disease outbreaks are reshaping the public health landscape across the African continent, countries face not only increasingly complex epidemiological threats but also a critical shortage of expertise required to prevent, detect and respond to them. Yet amid these challenges lies a distinct comparative advantage: a…
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Digital Public Infrastructure for Health Security: Operationalising One Health in Africa
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…
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Digital and Financial Literacy: Empowering Women and Building Climate Resilience in Sindh (Pakistan)
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…