Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ ) GmbH is a government development cooperation organization of the Federal Republic of Germany.

She is on 1 January 2011 from the merger of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ ), the International Training and development (InWEnt ) and the German Development Service (DED) emerged.

The company is registered in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main in the commercial register as a limited company and is based both in Bonn and Eschborn.

Tasks

The GIZ has the task of execution of the agreed by the contracting authority Technical Cooperation. Technical cooperation consists mainly of consulting, financial contributions, development services, construction and promotion of project promoters, provision of equipment and materials and the preparation of studies and reports. In addition, GIZ is active in international education work.

Development workers from the former German Development Service criticize the pooling and alignment of the GIZ decided. In their view, the focus shifted to economic development. The fight against poverty and help themselves be neglected.

Client

The main clients of the GICs are primarily the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ( BMZ ) and other ministries such as the Foreign Office, the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In addition, federal states, local authorities and other public and private customers such as governments of other countries, European Commission, United Nations and World Bank.

The Board spokeswoman Tanja patrons ( in office since 2012) has set itself the goal to win new clients across the public sector; at the same time to the GIZ achieve a " merger return " through the consolidation of three previously existing state development agencies and reduction of double structures.

Employee

GIZ employs in over 130 countries around 17,000 employees, of whom over 60 percent are national personnel. There are also 994 development workers, 599 integrated and 453 returning experts, 700 local experts in partner organizations and 493 weltwärts volunteers.