Almost 1 billion euros in savings in the BMZ budget, 800 million euros in humanitarian aid savings in the Federal Foreign Office budget: does German development cooperation still have any geopolitical significance at all? Can the BMZ budget grow again in the coming years? Can development cooperation be financed more via the capital market? Does the crisis also offer the opportunity to make German development cooperation much more efficient and to thoroughly reform the entire current implementation structure?
Read my guest post for the blog Weltneuvermessung here:
Cover picture: Federal Development Minister Svenja Schulze meets President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray in Abuja, 16.08.2023. Copyright: Leon Kuegeler/photothek.de
