The first Berlin Global Learning Forum, hosted by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Program: Global Alliances for Social Protection, jointly with the World Bank Group, took place from 24–26 June 2015 with the objective of encouraging global knowledge sharing by means of peer-to-peer learning among social protection practitioners in strong relation to the G7 and G20 agenda. The Berlin Forum complements the “South-South Learning Forum” organized by the “Global Practice on Social Protection and Labor” of the World Bank Group since 2010. The last “South-South Learning Forum” took place 2014 in Rio de Janeiro and the next one will be organized in November this year in Beijing. This “Berlin Forum” therefore serves as a bridge between Rio and Beijing. A subsequent Berlin Forum in 2016 will build the connection to the South-South Learning Forum expected for March 2017.