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
Remembering Colonialism 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
BER e.V.The Berlin Development Policy Council (BER) is the state association of over 110 development policy non-governmental organizations. 15 of them first came together in a BER working group and later founded the Berlin Global Village association. BER cooperates with Berlin Global Village to the best of its ability, in particular to gain political support for the One World Center. Through its political work, BER has played a decisive role in ensuring that the project was included in the coalition agreement of the red-red-green state government - as well as the previous government of the SPD and CDU - and that it has received lasting political support.
State of Berlin
The red-green-red state government has enshrined its support for the One World Center in the coalition agreement for the years 2021-2026. The state was already involved as an important partner during its construction: It approved an investment grant of 3.0 million euros in 2018 - this made it possible for Berlin Global Village to take out 9 million euros in loans for the new building, which will be financed by the NGOs in the long term via the rents - as well as funding from SIWA funds of 1.7 million euros for refurbishment and equipment in 2020-2022. For the program work of Berlin Global Village, the governing coalition has approved annual project funding of 247,000 euros in 2022 and 253,000 euros in 2023 in the budget. We have a long-standing, good working relationship with the State Office for Development Cooperation in the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, which is our point of contact.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has provided Berlin Global Village with an investment grant of 1.8 million euros for refurbishment and equipment in the years 2020-2022. The One World Center can thus be equipped with modern facilities and become the central location for development policy debates in the German capital - with the intention of having a nationwide impact. The BMZ funding was provided in accordance with a resolution of the German Bundestag for the 2019 budget. The funds were administered by the State of Berlin, State Agency for Development Cooperation, as part of an administrative agreement.
