Examples Area of transformation: Human well-being and capabilities, social justice

Germany puts the focus on the social dimension of sustainability and well-being for everyone. Strengthening health, education, equality, social justice and decent employment for the long term establishes the basis for everyone to play an active and self-determined role in shaping the sustainable transformation.

What Germany has done in the period covered by this report:

At national and international level, Germany supports the teaching of key skills required for the future in the transformation to sustainability in all areas of education.
Germany strengthens the education system as the key to innovative capacity and performance and to prosperity and inclusion for everyone.
Germany strengthens public and global health and promotes the systemic One Health approach

Cooperation in action

Germany provides long-term support for good jobs and social dialogue worldwide: Agenda for Decent Work WorldwideInternal link

Decent work reduces poverty and hunger and is a basic prerequisite for sustainable development in the partner countries engaged in development cooperation with Germany. Decent work, living wages and secure jobs along global supply chains promote resilient societies and boost the economy – in Germany and worldwide.
Skilled Immigration ActInternal link

With the Skilled Immigration Act, the German Government has simplified the legal frameworks for the targeted and managed immigration of skilled workers from third countries and introduced accompanying sub-statutory measures. The aim is to strengthen the German labour market, social prosperity and social protection systems.
Promoting gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights and empowerment: the Protection against Violence Strategy and strengthening the rights of pregnant women and mothersInternal link

The German Government has undertaken to do everything in its power to combat violence against women and girls. Violence of this kind is a gross violation of human rights.
Financial equalityInternal link

The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany includes a constitutional mandate for the legislature and executive to actively promote the financial equality of women and men. The German Government’s core objective for financial equality is to strengthen the financial independence of women and men.
Strengthening education for reflected action on sustainable development: the Global Partnership for Education, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and bilateral cooperation in vocational educationInternal link

Germany engaged internationally for equal access to education and promoted inclusive, labour market-oriented, quality education at all levels.
Boosting higher education and research for sustainable development worldwideInternal link

Higher education and research institutions are indispensable for social, economic and technological development worldwide. With their capacity for innovation, they make a major contribution to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), initiating evidence-based solutions to local and global challenges.
Global health, including an International Pandemic Agreement and international pandemic preventionInternal link

The German Government is working at the international level for improvements in healthcare and for appropriate pandemic prevention, preparedness and response measures.
Funding measure: Junior Research Groups “Climate, Environment and Health”Internal link

The complex, interlinked systemic challenges of planetary health (as a concept that aims to systematise the links between human health, political, economic and social systems and the natural systems of the planet) are also addressed in the funding measure Junior Research Groups “Climate, Environment and Health” initiated by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
The German Government’s strategy to counter lonelinessInternal link

Millions of people in Germany are affected by loneliness. The German Government’s strategy to counter loneliness addresses the issue in Germany for the first time in a comprehensive manner and with a wide range of measures.

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As at: 17.06.2025