The “Professional Development Workers Guiding Principles” describes a common understanding of International Personnel Cooperation in accordance with the Development Workers Act.
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.
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.
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.
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.
