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For positive results – the cross-cutting topics
The BMZ supports a large number of different development project and programmes in widely varying countries: some projects are concerned with building modern power stations or roads, others are about gender equality or training courses, while yet others help to protect the environment. Despite all this diversity, the BMZ aims to ensure that all development interventions are aligned to the overall strategy of German development policy. Thus, since the early 1990s, cross-cutting issues have been defined that are important for development. In order to identify positive spin-offs of projects and programmes and also to help avert conceivable negative impacts, guidelines were developed which have since been used in the planning and steering of German development cooperation. Currently, the BMZ examines its projects in terms of the following eight cross-cutting issues:
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Poverty reduction
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Promoting gender equality
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Participatory development and good governance
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Environmental and resource protection
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Crisis prevention
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Combating drug abuse
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Rural development
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Protecting tropical forests
