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New partnership with Germany to create sustainable employment opportunities for Iraqis [EN/AR/KU]
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Baghdad, 21 December 2020 – Germany has reaffirmed its partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) by investing EUR 30 million (US$35.89 million) to enhance economic empowerment and create employment opportunities for vulnerable communities in Iraq. The contribution was made available by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with financing provided through Germany’s KfW Development Bank. With that contribution, BMZ has over the past five years committed more than EUR 340 million to various UNDP programmes in Iraq.
Focusing on areas with the hardest-to-return populations in Anbar, Diyala, Kirkuk, Ninewa and Salah Al-Din, the Building Resilience through Employment Promotion (BREP) project gives Iraq the opportunity to build forward better in its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will provide more than
After successful completion of the first phase of Alag Karo - Har Din Teen Bin programme, Tetra Pak India along with Coca-Cola India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), have again joined hands with Bengaluru-based not-for-profit organisation Saahas to extend the initiative’s reach in Gurugram and select locations in New Delhi. The programme aims at achieving improved recycling rates
Jaideep Gokhale, sustainability director, Tetra Pak South Asia, said, “At Tetra Pak, we have long believed in honourable prime minister Narendra Modi’s proposition to start looking at waste as wealth. Our cartons are paper-based, recyclable and have the lowest carbon footprint among all other packaging materials used for similar food products. So, when we choose carton packaging, we are already making a positive choice.
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Ms Dorothee Dinkelaker (middle), Head of Development Cooperation, German Embassy, and Mr Yofi Grant (right), the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, displaying the signed documents. With them is Mr Gerald Guskowski (left), Head of the GIZ Country Programme. Picture: GABRIEL AHIABOR
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The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has signed a €762,300 financing agreement with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development to help address challenges in the investment sector that had been worsened by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Under the agreement, the two parties would mobilise investment and promote job-creating growth of enterprises in the country.
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