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Vorstandssprecher der GIZ // Arbeitsdirektor // International // Sozialdigitale Transformation // Wertebindung
Travelling to Marseille and working to make European development cooperation even more effective was a highlight of my week. It's great to see European development organisations pulling together. Happy to share a few of my take aways from the annual meeting of the Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation: 💠 Under the Presidency of Expertise France, the Practitioners’ Network took important steps to ensure its sustainability, thus paving the way for our future cooperation. 💠 The 25 Members remain fully committed to contributing to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs in partner countries, many of which require our engagement to tackle fragility. 💠 The (technical) expertise of the network, the diversity of its Members and our approach of inclusiveness are key for implementing #GlobalGateway, Europe's strategy for sustainable quality infrastructure worldwide. 💠 Reinforcing our partnership with the European DFIs - EDFI and the Joint European Financiers for International Cooperation JEFIC, but also with the private sector, will allow us to unlock the potential of #TeamEurope for the mutual benefit of partner countries and the EU. 💠 European development organisations will play a crucial role in the reconstruction of #Ukraine and in promoting the country’s accession to the EU. Support for the neighboring countries will continue. All the best to Austrian Development Agency and Expertise France for their 2024-2025 co-Presidency of the Practitioners’ Network! We at GIZ look forward to continuing to support the important work of the network in the future! #StrongerTogether – that was also the theme of my conversations with my peers and colleagues, among them Jean Van Wetter from Enabel, Friedrich Stift from Austrian Development Agency, Juha Savolainen from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Michal Minčev from CzechAid, Manuel Tonnar from LuxDev, Francisco TIERRASECA GALDÓN and Tobias Jung Altrogge from FIIAPP , Marco Riccardo Rusconi from AICS and Jeremie Pellet from Expertise France. Thank you for the valuable and fruitful exchanges and here's to good, ongoing cooperation!
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