December 1, 2025
Empowering Girls in the Shadow of K2: How Nutrition Education Sparks Change
Supported by the German Government through GIZ, the SOPRAN initiative is helping adolescent girls in Skardu (Pakistan) understand nutrition, improve their health, and adopt stronger eating habits. But the impact goes deeper: as girls begin making informed choices, they also gain the confidence to express their needs, influence decisions at home, and guide their peers. Through stories like Adila’s, the article shows how nutrition education is not only strengthening health but also nurturing a quiet shift in behaviour and voice—one that is gradually reshaping families and communities.
November 6, 2025
Fighting Anaemia with Bread and Tablets
Across Pakistan, a quiet revolution is taking place in schools, homes, and community mills. Through the SOPRAN initiative, the Government of Pakistan, the German Government, the Gates Foundation, and partners including BISP, Nutrition International, CERP, and WFP are tackling anaemia among adolescent girls with fortified wheat flour, iron tablets, and nutrition education.
September 15, 2025
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the Edge: Navigating Disaster Risks & the Need for Adaptive Social Protection
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faces escalating climate risks — from glacial lake outburst floods to cloudbursts and landslides — that strike with increasing frequency and severity. This article explores how stronger disaster risk management and adaptive social protection can help the province safeguard vulnerable communities and break the cycle of loss.
August 28, 2025
SEEG and partners tackle the Mpox outbreak in East-DRC: Responding to a public health emergency in a conflict area
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spent over three decades in a balancing act between political powers, armed conflicts and subsequent humanitarian and health challenges. Unfortunately, the situation today is no different, with multiple conflicts threatening already vulnerable populations in the eastern regions, at the center of Sub-Saharan Africa.
August 22, 2025
Her Money, Her Control
Discover how the Benazir Income Support Programme, with support from the EU and Germany, is empowering women across Pakistan through Digital Social Protection Wallets — giving them secure, dignified access to what is rightfully theirs and moving the country toward a cashless future.
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Social health protection is an important stepping-stone on the way to Universal Health Coverage.
Poor health is among the most important life cycle risks targeted by Social Protection: The financial impact of expensive treatment is deepened by the sick worker’s lack of income, and with insufficient funds patients may settle for partial or no treatment, further jeopardising health and life.
With a view to achieving Universal Health Coverage, countries have been introducing social health protection schemes to ensure access to affordable healthcare for their poorest and most vulnerable citizens. German development cooperation actively supports partner governments in this complex process, which includes managing information on demography and disease burden, ensuring access to health services, and alignment with health and social protection policies on the different administrative levels. Equally important are definition of criteria for the benefits package and for the selection of beneficiaries, and the interplay and exchange of data between stakeholders (government, insurance companies and health providers) while keeping in mind issues such as health financing, including options such as risk pooling among beneficiary groups of different means.
The articles, studies and events presented on this page document multiple experiences of German development cooperation in supporting partner countries’ social health protection measures.
Stories
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Empowering Girls in the Shadow of K2: How Nutrition Education Sparks Change
Supported by the German Government through GIZ, the SOPRAN initiative is helping adolescent girls in Skardu (Pakistan) understand nutrition, improve their health, and adopt stronger eating habits. But the impact goes deeper: as girls begin making informed choices, they also gain the confidence to express their needs, influence decisions at home, and guide their peers.…
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Fighting Anaemia with Bread and Tablets
Across Pakistan, a quiet revolution is taking place in schools, homes, and community mills. Through the SOPRAN initiative, the Government of Pakistan, the German Government, the Gates Foundation, and partners including BISP, Nutrition International, CERP, and WFP are tackling anaemia among adolescent girls with fortified wheat flour, iron tablets, and nutrition education.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the Edge: Navigating Disaster Risks & the Need for Adaptive Social Protection
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faces escalating climate risks — from glacial lake outburst floods to cloudbursts and landslides — that strike with increasing frequency and severity. This article explores how stronger disaster risk management and adaptive social protection can help the province safeguard vulnerable communities and break the cycle of loss.
Events
Studies
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Catalyst dialogue on health financing
Financing Health for All in the context of scarcity
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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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Trusted partners for Universal Health Coverage
Learning from support to large-scale reforms in India and Indonesia
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Health insurance for India’s poor
Meeting the challenge with information technology