Report on the reality of German development policy demands more commitment to the G7
Development policy in the "turnaround" presents the international community with new challenges
Berlin / Osnabrück, 2.6.2022 - The international community faces the challenge of a global system crisis that places a new dimension of demands on politics. This system crisis is exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. The Federal Government's development policy is required to react to the fatal interaction of wars, the consequences of Covid19 pandemic, the effects of climate change and the intersecting hunger disaster with concrete aid measures and at the same time to be eliminated to the elimination of the structural causes. Because these crisis phenomena meet the most vulnerable groups that suffer the most from it: people in poverty, refugees and displaced persons, children and adolescents.
For millions of children, the worst consequences such as hunger, exploitative work to survive and the lack of school and education must be caught by humanitarian aid. "While the Bundeswehr was quickly equipped with the decision of May 29 with a 100 billion euro special assets, we now need funds of this size, especially for civil purposes: for example for the structure of destroyed schools and health facilities in Ukraine and for measures to protect the environment for children today and the coming generations," said Joshua Hofert, Board of Directors at Terre des Hommes. "At the same time, we need a long -term clear strategy for the promotion of children and adolescents through German development policy that includes their wishes and demands."
The Federal Government should use this year's G7 presidency to commit itself to binding initiatives for worldwide nutritional security together with the partners. »We must not allow a hunger crisis like in 2007/2008 to repeat itself with just under one billion hunger in the world. Global nutritional security should be the highest political priority. This also includes adapting financing for development cooperation to the challenges of nutrition protection. Together with the G7 countries, the Federal Government must also provide a total of $ 14 billion a year for nutritional protection in order to defeat the global hunger, «Mathias Mogge, General Secretary of Welthunger Aid.
The "compass 2022" is 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 subject the German development policy of a critical analysis, but takes into account the requirements of the UN Sustainability Agenda decided in 2015 to German politics.