Why is North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) active in global development issues?
Way back in 1962, the state-premiers of the German Länder promised to support the development policy of the Federal Government. North Rhine-Westphalia has been doing so for many years. We have recently updated our development guidelines, because our Land is really the crucial German Land when it comes to North-South relations. All major development agencies are based here, including civil-society bodies such as Misereor, Kindernothilfe or Deutsche Welthungerhilfe/German Agro Action. We have around 3000 One World initiatives in civil society. Furthermore, the Berlin-Bonn Act expressly defined the former capital of the Federal Republic on the Rhine as the nation’s North-South Centre. Accordingly, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is one of the ministries based in Bonn. Moreover, Bonn is also the only UN location in Germany. There really is tight-nit network here that we can rely on. But the KfW Development Bank, the GTZ, and medico international, an important
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