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listen, connect, transform

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Peace needs development and development

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ultimately needs, above all, cooperation based on trust,

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common goals and shared responsibility.

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And that is why, especially in times of crisis, long-term partnership

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is so crucial and makes a real difference.

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And we see that, for example, in our partnership in Rwanda.

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When you look at the current global challenges,

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be it climate change, migration or cyber security, to mention a few,

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what you see is that this kind of challenges are not bound

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or restricted by geographical boundaries.

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And so, to mitigate them or to solve for them requires a collaborative effort

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between countries, between partners

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in really trying to find solutions to solve for such challenges.

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And so that's why I really believe that partnerships are fundamental.

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It is the foundation for sustainable development

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that we work with partners from politics,

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civil society, business and the scientific community,

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ultimately bringing people together and sharing their experiences.

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And that’s why the truly important momentum is

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learning from each other, shaping change together.

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And especially through shared learning experiences

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we are able to address global agendas from climate action

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to pandemic control to artificial intelligence

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with good solutions.

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When I look back at the last 24 years, when Rwanda,

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made the deliberate decision to put ICT at the centre of everything

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that we do to to leverage ICT as an enabler for sustainable development,

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what made the the different aspects of progress

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that we’ve achieved as a country possible was it was partnerships.

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We've seen GIZ as a critical partner that has been able to walk this journey with us,

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whether it's from a policy perspective to skills, and also to really thinking

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about executing programmes that are beneficial to the country.

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So when it comes to partnerships

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we're looking at scalability and sustainability.

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On scalability, what we're looking at is how do we scale

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some of the initial partnerships that we have

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in a way that they're benefiting a wider base of people or a target audience?

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But also how sustainable are they going to be in the long run

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for the ambitions that we have as a country.

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For our partnerships in the future, I hope

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that, for example, what we are already achieving together in Rwanda in partnership today,

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that this form of cooperation, from which we mutually learn

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and can therefore organise progress,

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that this can be transferred to other partnerships.

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And it ultimately underscores the fact that our aspiration

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to listen, connect, transform

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is truly real.

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That’s ultimately the foundation for

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us, as a leader in forging new paths,

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to shape comprehensive change for sustainable development.

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In partnership – worldwide.

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