Shareholders
Berlin Global Village gGmbH is the operator and owner of the center. As a non-profit limited company, we do not make any profit from the rent and do not pursue any commercial purpose. The shareholders are the Afrika-Rat Berlin Brandenburg e.V., the Berliner Entwicklungspolitische Ratschlag e.V. and MoveGLOBAL e.V.
Maimouna Ouattara
MoveGlobal e.V.
Sylvia Werther
Berliner Entwicklungspolitschen Ratschlag e.V.
Akinola Famson
Afrika-Rat Berlin Brandenburg e.V.
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board advises Berlin Global Village on all important issues. The focus is on the content of the program work. It makes recommendations to the management. The advisory board is made up of the following experts:
Sarah Kohrt
Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung
Melina Borčak
Freelance journalist and filmmaker
Stefani Reich
Senate Department for Economics, State Office for Development Cooperation
MFA Kera
Musician
Mohammed Jouni
Jugendliche ohne Grenzen
Ibou Diop
Project management Colonialism Memorial Berlin
Imke-Friederike Tiemann-Middleton
Bread for the World
Simon Uh Choll Lee
Vollgut eG
Prof. Dr. Sabine Jungk
Catholic University of Applied Sciences
Eva Hein
Nachhaltigkeitsbeauftragte, Bezirk Neukölln
Anett Szabó
Stiftung Zukunft Berlin
Joshua Kantara
Regisseur und Schauspieler Co-Founder at Kantara Productions
Migrant Self Organizations (MSO) Anti-Racism Council
The MSO Council is an advisory body appointed by the Executive Board to assess all relevant processes from an anti-racism perspective and develops proposals for the ongoing operation of the center. It acts as an intersection between the shareholders, the office team and MDO/MSOs at the center.
* MDO/MSO/PAD/PoC sind die Abkürzungen für: migrantisch-diasporische Organisation (MDO), Migrant*innenselbstorganisation (MSO), People of African Decent (PAD), People of Color (PoC)
Cooperation partners
The red–green–red state government reaffirmed its support for the One World Center in the 2021–2026 coalition agreement. The state had already played a key role during the construction phase by approving an investment grant of €3.0 million in 2018. This enabled Berlin Global Village to take out €9 million in loans for the "new building", which is financed long term through tenants' rent. In addition, SIWA funds totaling €1.7 million were provided between 2020 and 2022 for refurbishment and equipment.
To support the programmatic work of Berlin Global Village, the governing coalition approved annual project funding of €247,000 in 2022 and €253,000 in 2023 as part of the state budget. We maintain a long-standing and constructive working relationship with the State Office for Development Cooperation in the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, which serves as our main point of contact.
Between 2020 and 2022, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supported Berlin Global Village with an investment grant of €1.8 million for refurbishment and equipment. This funding made it possible to equip the One World Center with modern facilities and further develop it into a central hub for development policy debate in the German capital, with the aim of generating impact nationwide.
The BMZ funding was based on a resolution of the German Bundestag within the 2019 federal budget. The funds were administered by the State of Berlin, through the State Agency for Development Cooperation, under an administrative agreement.
