Caravan of Fashion Show in Togo, Benin and Ghana
(07.03.2008) CERAD International presents “CERAD Afrik Graphik Textile” (AGT) Clothesmore
Walter Altmann: Increasing will to seek the unity of churches
(26.02.2008) The moderator of the World Council of Churches has appealed in his visit with the Church Development Service (EED) on the 22nd February for reinforced prayer for unity of the Christians. He pledged for a differentiated dialogue with the Pentecostal and evangelical movement.more
Water and Democracy
(17.07.2007) South Asia is a region with rich and diverse traditions of practices in water management. However, in recent times water management is got into crisis, not at least caused by the „Green Revolution“ and by industrialization: Droughts, depletion of ground water, shortage of drinking water, displacement by dams are but a few catchwords for the increasing conflicts over water. EED partner organizations and networks in India, decided to put the issue on top of the agenda and planned a joint initiative of concerned partner organizations at national level.more
"EPAs contradict national development goals and policies"
(25.04.2007) Declaration of the Consultation of Churches from Eastern and Southern Africa on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzaniamore
Kicking for Peace in Cape Town
(22.12.2006) On Saturday 9 December the 1st Kicking for Peace Tournament of the Sport for Peace Project took place in Langa, the oldest township in Cape Town. The Sport for Peace Project is one of the initiatives of the Western Cape Network for Community, Peace and Development, a network with 23 organizations all working in the field of youth development, women, conflict transformation and peace building. Marion Keim and Marius Blümel, two EED-seconded professionals working with South-African partner organisations, participated in the event.more
EED mourns the passing away of Dr. Badal Sen Gupta
(7.12.2006) Yesterday we received the sad news of the demise of Dr. Badal Sen Gupta. He passed away while participating in a workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Badal was a colleague in EED from 1972 to 2002. In his last position he headed the consultancy department of EED.more
Closing the gap between our theory and practice
(10.07.2006) The Gender Strategy to promote equal opportunities for women and men through the programmes of EED and BfdW (2006 – 2010) has been released. Striving to eliminate poverty in its diverse forms and towards a fairer world entails the goal of bringing about equal opportunities for women and men.more
In the Way of Righteousness is Life
(20.05.2006) Annual Report 2005 / 2006: For the churches, the Gospel and Christian faith are the sources of their commitment to human rights and development. This year, the main focus of our report is on development work by churches.more
Will Human Rights in Future Determine Budgets?
(07.04.2006) Pure utopianism, many will think. So far it is thought to be outright nonsense to try and calculate the cost of say the Human Right to Food, let alone to make that right subject of budget planning. And yet 144 countries, many of them from the developing world, have ratified their determination to progressively fulfil this and other Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and 153 are party to the Civil and Political Rights. Why not therefore, try and concretise the realisation of the Human Rights, even by way of costing and budgeting them? An international workshop of 35 participants from 4.-6.4.2006 took place near Geneva in Switzerland responded in the affirmative to this question.more
