Activities of the Embassy
The State Peer Review Mechanism - Ambassador meets Governors of Niger State and Rivers State
On 28 February, the State Peer Review Mechanism was kicked off in Minna by the Chief Servant of Niger State, Governor Aliyu, and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governor's Forum, Governor Amaechi of Rivers State. The German Ambassador, Mrs. Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel, took the opportunity to pay a courtesy call to Chief Servant Aliyu. In her goodwill message to the assembled government officials, traditional leaders and civil society representatives, the Ambassador emphasised Germany's readiness to work together with Nigeria and its federal states on political, economic and cultural issues within the newly created Binational Commission. Cooperation with Niger State has been especially close. Since many years, GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) on behalf of the German government implements projects in support of small and medium sized enterprizes. The Ambassador also visited GIZ's local office in Minna.
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Germany supports workshop on climate insurance for famers
On 27 February 2012 key stakeholders convened in Abuja for a workshop titled "Agricultural Insurance Reform in Nigeria - Protecting Nigeria's Farmers from Climate Change". The workshop was organised collaboratively by the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED), the Central Bank of Nigeria and the German Embassy.
Germany supports workshop on climate insurance for farmers
The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany has come to the Hope Eden School to visit the children - and the new borehole with a solar pump that was funded by the German Embassy in Abuja.
Water for Hope Eden
Under the theme "Water is Life", the launch of a borehole, which was significantly co-financed by the German Embassy in Abuja, was held on September 7th in Ajido Community, a village in the Lagos Area. The project aims to especially improve the situation of girls and women, whose task it is to find and fetch clean drinking water for the community.
Current Projects of the German Embassy
A little bit delayed but still successful, the festivities on the occasion of the opening of two classrooms and a teachers` room took place in the Kurikyo Primary school on 28 February 2011.
In the presence of numerous representatives of the community of Kurikyo the representative of the German Embassy, Dr. Burkard Weth handed over two neu constructed class rooms in Kurikyo.
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