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Learning from each other, acting together: partnerships for future-proof municipalities

Bonn, 14 January 2026. Despite the vast distance between them, German and Latin American municipalities are working towards a shared vision: livable, sustainable cities. Their experiences show how mutual exchange helps them move forward. Discussions on current issues, but also on challenges in cooperation, were the focus of the 2024 Partnership Conference for German and Latin American Municipalities in Cologne. One year later, we followed up.

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Empowering women in German-African municipal partnerships

Bonn, 17 December 2025. Gender equality remains a key factor for global development. Empowering girls and women is also a cross-cutting theme or explicit goal in many German-African municipal partnerships. Several examples of projects were presented at the Partnership Conference between municipalities from Germany and Sub-Saharan Africa held in Giessen last September. Read more about the approaches and discussion points.

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Water management – a topic for German-African municipal partnerships

Bonn/Giessen, 22 September 2025. Drinking water – wastewater – flooding. Water is a much-discussed topic in partnerships. The workshops and discussions during this year's Sub-Saharan Africa Conference in Giessen have recently shone a light on how broad this topic is and on diverse forms of engagement in this area. In our article, we provide an insight into the working of the partnerships and share some of the findings from the conference.

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German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnerships

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development the Service Agency (SKEW) has been supporting the network of already more than 200 formal and informal municipal partnerships since 2015 as part of the project „Municipal Partnerships with Ukraine“. This support includes various networking, consulting and promotion activities.

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