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Youth Champions help to tackle challenges faced by young people in Ethiopia
Eight DSW Youth Champions will be using their voices this year to make sure the EU’s external action effectively responds to young people’s needs, particularly in the field of global health and sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Youth Champions are from...
Health and water at the core of the EU-Africa Partnership
On July 9, DSW and Wateraid organised the high-level event A roadmap to a healthy and sustainable future. Health and water at the core of the EU-Africa Partnership, which took place under the auspices of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union....
Announcing: Stories of Change Conference
Tell me a story about a time when you failed… not so easy is it? Yet it is by failing, that we get a better sense of who we are, our strengths – and what to do better next time. The Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) is happy to invite you to our virtual Stories...
INVESTING IN QUALITY HEALTH FOR HIGH RETURNS ON EDUCATION
Everyone has once passed through adolescent stage or will reach that stage in life. This is a transition stage that encounters several social - economic challenges. Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) knowledge and life skills ensures adolescent girls are...
DSW & GIZ team up to showcase why youth should shape how to build back better
On June 29, DSW, in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) hosted a Capacity 4 Change event under the title: Youth in EU-Africa Relations. The event focused in particular on how best to support young people’s needs in...
DSW Explains – Episode 2: the post-Cotonou agreement
"DSW Explains” is a new video series where DSW's EU team explores some of the key EU policies related to global health R&D and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in a short and accessible way. In the 2nd episode of the series, our Advocacy Officer,...
“We are Generation Equality!” – DSW Youth Champions
The Generation Equality Forum is a global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the Governments of Mexico and France together with civil society and youth. The Forum kicked off in Mexico City and will culminate in Paris (30 June – 2...
European Parliament adopts landmark position on sexual and reproductive rights
The European Parliament voted today in favour of a landmark report presented by Croatian MEP Predrag Fred Matić on “the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU”. While the European Parliament has repeatedly expressed concerns over the lack of...
DSW’s budget analysis: Family planning investment in 11 counties in Kenya
DSW's partner counties in Kenya are estimated to have allocated between 2.6 percent and 4.9 percent of their total health budgets to family planning for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, a study by DSW shows. The study, conducted in October 2020, also shows that three...
It Takes the Whole Community to Raise A Child
The Day of the African Child is celebrated every year on 16th of June as the time for the world to reflect on the progress made towards children’s rights as well as the barriers they face. In Tanzania, DSW Tanzania and Partners convened a stakeholder’s forum in Dodoma...
