Launch of the Commitments Platform for the Global Disability Summit 2025 at COSP17
The new commitments portal for the Global Disability Summit 2025 was launched on 11th June, 2024 as part of a side event of the 17th Session Of The Conference Of States Parties To The CRPD (COSP17). As a central new tool of the GDS Commitment Mechanism, the platform allows stakeholders to make concrete pledges ahead […]
Recap from the Annual Living Inclusion Network Forum
The Annual Living Inclusion Network Forum, 2024. Picture by GIZ. On 5th June 2024, we hosted the Annual Living Inclusion Network Forum, which saw close to a hundred participants coming together to discuss crucial issues surrounding inclusion. The event focused on the three topics in which many network members had expressed an interest in advance: […]
Living Inclusion in Practice: Advancing Inclusive TVET in Vietnam
The Vietnamese economy has been growing rapidly over the past few decades, and every year more and more young people are entering the labour market. However, most of them do not have formal vocational qualifications and do not meet the requirements of enterprises. This is where Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) becomes essential. […]
Ensuring Inclusion in Political Processes
The year 2024 is the biggest election year in history with half the world’s adult population potentially going to the polls. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for people to have their voices heard. But who gets to vote and who gets to stand for election – a key indicator of a healthy democratic election remains […]
Advancing Inclusion: New Human Rights Approach in German Development Cooperation
In November 2023, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) released a new Human Rights concept for German development cooperation. The concept envisions a world where everyone is free of hardships and there is equal social, economic and political participation regardless of gender, gender identity or sexual orientation, of disability or age, ethnic origin […]
Breaking Barriers: Highlights of the Zero Project Conference 2024 in Vienna
In a world that strives for inclusivity, events like the Zero Conference 2024 in Vienna serve as a beacon of hope and progress. From February 21st to 23rd 2024, world leaders, inclusion enthusiasts, representatives of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPD), educators and scientists, policymakers from governments, advocates and activists from NGO, and many more […]
Code of Inclusion: Ensuring the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Workplace
Article by GIZ Egypt In the context of GIZ Egypt’s inclusion efforts, we asked ourselves: Why do we need a code for inclusion of persons with disabilities? And why is it essential to have an anchored structure that ensures the rights of persons with disabilities in the workplace? Inclusion is a human right. We all […]
