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The Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ) has been the sponsor of the specialist promoter position for local partnership initiatives since 2013, and since 2025 the specialist promoter at the SEZ has held the title of specialist promoter for international partnership work. It is part of the nationwide One World Promoter Program, which imparts knowledge and skills for global sustainable development in our society. The specialist promoter creates networks and cooperations for international partnerships and initiates and strengthens transcultural encounters. The target group are committed people in Baden-Württemberg and in particular partnership groups.
Partnership is the core of our daily work. However, the term partnership is used inflationary and everyone has an idea of what a partnership could mean. We understand Partnerships as human encounters that are based on openness, trust, honesty, responsibility and respect and are a win-win for all involved We strive for equal and fair partnerships. To achieve this, however, we must recognize our own privileges and global responsibility and reduce existing colonial power asymmetries. We assume that we can learn from the Global South in order to successfully implement plans and projects in partnership work.
This series of events invites all actors – migrant and non-migrant – of the partnership groups in Baden-Württemberg. Digital networking meetings will take place in 2025 will take place on February 28, April 27, July 18 and October 24 from 16:00 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Would you like to attend the support meetings? Then send us an email to hailu@sez.de and we will be happy to add you to the mailing list.
The state-wide networking meeting of the partnership groups is a digital series of events that offers space for networking, exchange and mutual support for the numerous Baden-Württemberg associations, initiatives and organizations that maintain a partnership with initiatives and organizations in countries of the Global South. In addition to personal commitment, a "real" partnership requires many skills. Trustful partnerships require, among other things, a willingness to learn and to reflect on one's own position and entanglements in the historical and social structures. Migrant actors in Baden-Württemberg play an important role in development partnership work and are actively involved in countries of the Global South. However, this commitment is often not recognized or overlooked. We would like to use the state-wide meetings together as a platform to promote regional and supra-regional networking, support the exchange of knowledge and resources, promote critical reflection on power inequalities, post-colonial thinking and action, and promote openness to change processes in one's own environment.
The event series “Statewide digital networking meeting of the partnership groups in Baden-Württemberg” takes place in cooperation with the umbrella organization for development policy in Baden-Württemberg (DEAB), regional promoter Heide Öchslen in Schwäbisch Hall, the Center for Development-Related Education of the Evangelical Church of Württemberg (ZEB) and the Piela-Bilanga e. V. support association.
A selection of successful projects from the One World Promoters Program can be found here.
The nationwide One World Promoters program is supported by the Association of One World State Networks in Germany (agl). In Baden-Württemberg, the program is supported and coordinated by the DEAB. The program is jointly funded by the states and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The One World Promoters are intended to impart the knowledge and skills for globally sustainable development in our society and to initiate and strengthen networks, cooperations and partnerships.
With its 16 members – the One World Country Networks – the association is committed to future-oriented global development that is based on the principles of social justice, ecological sustainability, democracy and participation.
The work of agl is non-profit, non-partisan and non-denominational. The agl has its office in Berlin.
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