Sustainable development

Arch Project

Name of the Organization
Arch Project
Additional info
Johannes Peschke
Contact

An der Trave 34a
23795 Bad Segeberg
Germany

Telephone
+49 4551 9080572
E-Mail
kontakt[at]archeprojekt.de
Description of the Organization

Extracurricular education partner for schools and kindergartens in global learning in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg Vorpommern and Lower Saxony

siebenwerte

Name of the Organization
siebenwerte
Contact

Im Linsenbühl 27
69221 Dossenheim
Germany

Telephone
+49 6221 6731950
E-Mail
info[at]siebenwerte.de
Description of the Organization

siebenwerte is a sustainability consultancy that aims to connect companies and NGOs. The framework is the SDGs. siebenwerte's service is the conception of projects and the initiation of collaborations with sustainable impact between partners from different sectors.

KED - Development Service of the North-Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Name of the Organization
KED - Development Service of the North-Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Contact

Wichmannstraße 4 | Haus 10 Nord
22607 Hamburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 40 30620 1531
E-Mail
info[at]ked.nordkirche.de
Description of the Organization

The north church promotes, the church overseas development service, projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In this way making a contribution to more global justice is shown. At the same time the church wants to promote a critical understanding for the global, economic, social, political and ecological influences that shape our lives. The educational offer of the church overseas development service has the aim to understand the interconnection among our own life and of people all over the world. Together with others the church wants to create a worldwide social change through the communication of abilities, settings and values. We want to connect people and promote their engagement supporting a fairer and more sustainable world. Our aid programs are available for church and non-church groups and initiatives in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein. Every two years the north church announces the "one world price". This price honors initiatives, groups, church municipalities or individuals for their engagement. The theological bases, definitions, structures and quality criterions of the educational work are summarized in the concept for the development educational work of the north church.

SIGN OF LIFE! - Society for Threatened Peoples Austria (GFBVÖ)

Name of the Organization
SIGN OF LIFE! - Society for Threatened Peoples Austria (GFBVÖ)
Contact

Angertorstraße 1C
2070 Retz
Austria

Telephone
+43 664 388 1 883
E-Mail
spenden[at]lebenszeichen-international.at

sef: Development and Peace Foundation

Name of the Organization
sef: Development and Peace Foundation
Contact

Dechenstraße 2
53115 Bonn
Germany

Telephone
+49 228 95925-0
E-Mail
sef[at]sef-bonn.org
Description of the Organization

Forum for International Dialogue

WFD - Weltfriedensdienst Association

Name of the Organization
WFD - Weltfriedensdienst Association
Contact

Am Borsigturm 9
13507 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 253990-0
E-Mail
info[at]wfd.de
Description of the Organization

Weltfriedensdienst (WFD) is a development policy-related organisation headquartered in Berlin. It was founded in 1959, when the German federal government started its rearmament again, ten years after the ending of world war two. Weltfriedensdienst commit itself to reconciliation work in countries that had been victims of German fascism and in believe that there is only a way to peace with less weapons in the world. In the 1960s, WFD started to focus also on countries of the South. Since 1971, WFD has been one of six development services approved by the German federal government. Trained development and peace workers have been supporting grassroots initiatives in Africa, Latin America and Palestine.

Focal points of the collaboration with partners in the South are the advancement of women, professional training, environment protection and resource conservation, as well as civil peace service. In terms of collaboration, one of WFD's main concerns is to develop a sense of partnership with grassroots initiatives and NGOs.

In Germany, WFD raises awareness of problems in the South and helps to overcome prejudices by promoting several projects and by concentrating on development policy-related work in the areas of lobbying, education and public relations. The peaceXchange project that was running in Germany is one example of WFD's EU awareness work. It was designed to raise awareness of ways of achieving non-violent conflict resolution that have been developed in countries of the South. This three-year project, in collaboration with Austrian, Czech and Polish partners, mainly addressed young people. Currently WFD starts a new EU and also EU supported project "Global Generation" in collaboration with Hungarian and Austrian partners. This time it will take place not only in Germany, but also in the other project countries. In Germany, Weltfriedensdienst also focus on promoting partnership projects. A total of 60 partnerships support projects in Africa, Latin America and Palestine through various campaigns. Further advancement of WFD's work would not be possible without the dedicated volunteers, as members and partners of WFD who are on the board, work on the advisory committees of individual projects and in various project teams. Passive members, who cannot work actively for the association, but wish to support WFD financially, are also welcome and needed. Without their financial support many projects were not possible.

WFD promotes development policy-related campaigns and is part of a greater network. Accordingly, WFD is a member of VENRO, AGDF, AKLHÜ, Action against AIDS Germany, BER e.V. and Attac Deutschland.

WEED - World Economy, Ecology and Development

Name of the Organization
WEED - World Economy, Ecology and Development
Contact

Eldenaer Straße 60
10247 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 27582163
E-Mail
kontakt[at]weed-online.org
Description of the Organization

WEED is an independent NGO and was founded in 1990. Our goal is to create more awareness in Germany for the causes of worldwide poverty and environmental problems. WEED is committed to national and international networks and unites organisations and initiatives in the North and South.

Our focus is on:

  • international indebtedness, debt clearance initiatives and Germany's role in this context;
  • politics, projects and programmes of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank;
  • reforming and democratizing the international financial markets;
  • international trade policy and WTO (World Trade Organisation);
  • the North-South policy of the European Union, and international environmental and development policy

WEED performs research, collects background material, and writes working papers, including for example, the WEED-Schuldenreport (the Weed debt report) that is published on a regular basis and provides information on indebtedness. WEED runs campaigns, talks to political decision-makers and intervenes in political decision-making processes. WEED wants to draw attention to these problems by organizing seminars, workshops and conferences, by collaborating with the media and through public relations. WEED works together with national and international NGOs, and supports and completes the work of other environmental and developmental organisations.