Compass - the reality of development aid

Welthungerhilfe and Terre des Hommes warn the federal government that the funds for development cooperation and humanitarian aid do not further reduce. The current situation worldwide gives rise to great concern: the number of people affected by hunger has been increasing continuously since 2016 and is around 280 million last year. Children and young people are particularly affected.

»If Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner implemented the current financial planning, the financing in 2025 will drop by another 1.6 billion euros. That would be a total decline of around 25 percent within a legislative period, «explains Joshua Hofert, board member of the communication of Terre des Hommes. »What is often forgotten in a budget debate: Millions of people in the African continent alone would be affected in Sudan, Somalia or Burkina Faso, which suffer from the consequences of crises and conflicts. Educational and training programs for children and adolescents in southern Africa would be shortened as drastically as adaptation programs against the consequences of climate change in the Sahel region. «

Global challenges require stable financing instead of cuts

A main focus this year is on the Federal Government's Africa Politics against the background of current political developments on the continent. Terre des Hommes and Welthungerhilfe are calling for a binding guideline for the goals that the federal government wants to agree with the African countries and what offers it makes for the affected countries.

»It is time to adapt the different Africa papers of the departments to the changed challenges in Africa. The outdated narrative of the "crisis artist" Africa should be overcome and the role of Africa was recognized as a courted partner. Therefore, the Federal Government should lead the dialogue at eye level and coordinate its measures closely with the existing concepts of the African Union. Nutrition protection and strengthening rural areas have to be given priority. The BMZ's budget cuts in this area of ​​more than 30 percent in 2023 are short -sighted and send the wrong signal to abolish hunger, »emphasizes Mathias Mogge, General Secretary of Welthungerhilfe.

The compass 2024 has been the further development of the annual report on the "reality of development policy", which Terre des Hommes and Welthungerhilfe published since 1993. He continues to undergo the German development policy of a critical analysis, but takes into account the requirements of the UN agenda decided in 2015 for sustainable development to German politics