Background and objectives

  • The “Professional Development Workers Guiding Principles” describes a common understanding of International Personnel Cooperation in accordance with the Development Workers Act.
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  • For the German development service agencies, partnerships are the essential basis for turning the sustainable development goals laid down in the Agenda 2030 action plan1 into practical reality.
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  • Solidarity continues to be a central reference point of development service, closely linked to the idea of equal partnership and directly implemented in the individual commitment of the professionals.
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  • The German Development Workers Act came into force on 18 June 1969. Since then, over 30,000 professionals have left the country to perform development service.
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  • AGdD Executive Director Dr Gabi Waibel spoke with Professor Dr Claudia Warning, Head of Division 3 at the BMZ, about change, priorities and perspectives of development cooperation and the development service.
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