News from Berlin – Next week, on Thursday the 21st, German scientist Dr. Harald Moßbrucker will be giving a presentation on the German-Peruvian partnership regarding poverty-stricken regions in Peru. In his research, Moßbrucker focuses on development studies and migration. He is also the director of the German-Peruvian funding programme (Fondo Contravalor Peru Alemania)

In the 1980s, Peru became the world’s focus point of terrorism and governmental violence, by which over 70,000 people lost their lives. Greatly affected were the Ayacucho, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo provinces. Several decades after these outbursts of violence these provinces have undergone considerable economic and social development.  Especially through the help of the German-Peruvian fundings for those regions, Ayacucho, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo have been able to recover and develop themselves once again.

The German-Peruvian partnership funds several small social and economic projects to help stabilise the regions that suffered violent setbacks during the internal Peruvian conflicts in the 1980s. Furthermore, Peru is a partner of the German development cooperation and is the largest recipient of German development cooperation in Latin America, with Peru having received over two billion euros already in financial and technical support.

Dr. Harald Moßbrucker’s presentation on the German-Peruvian funding partnership will be held at the Berliner Staatsbibliothek in the Simon-Bolivar Saal on Thursday the 21st of August at 19.00 pm.

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