Cultural and religious diversity in development cooperation
Better harnessing the potential of religion for sustainable development and peace without instrumentalising it; contributing to the positioning of development policy in the area of culture and development
1 GIZ Sector Programme Values, Religion and Development, 2014-2017
2 Expert discussion on culture and development, Bonn, 15 October 2014
1 Sector Programme
- Developing pilot measures on the potential of religion for sustainable development and peace, developing skills, expanding cooperations (technical fundamentals, concepts, increasing the religious literacy of development policy actors)
Cf. Sector Programme Factsheet: https://www.giz.de/expertise/downloads/giz-2015_SP_Values_Religion_Factsheet.pdf
2 Expert discussion
- Thematising synergies and tensions between culture and human rights as well as religion; analysing and reflecting on the dimension of culture in theories, approaches and instruments of German development policy
1 Sector Programme: Dialogue series “Religion matters – Rethinking the challenges of the future” https://www.giz.de/expertise/html/19081.html; building international alliances together with development organisations and other donor countries