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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Abbreviation	GIZ
Formation	one January 2011; 11 years agone (2011-01-01)
Blazon	Federal Enterprise
Legal status	GmbH
Purpose	International Cooperation for Sustainable Development, International Education Work
Location	Bonn and Eschborn, Federal republic of germany
Chair of the Management Lath	Tanja Gönner
Budget	€3.3 billion (2020)^[1]
Staff	24,977 (31.12.2021)^[ane]
Website	world wide web.giz.de/en

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (English language: German language Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH), often shortened to simply GIZ, is the main German language evolution agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of international development cooperation and international education piece of work. It is the organisation'south self-alleged goal to evangelize constructive solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably ameliorate their living conditions.^[2]

GIZ's main commissioning party is Germany'south Federal Ministry building for Economical Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Other commissioners include European Marriage institutions, the United Nations, the private sector, and governments of other countries. In its projects GIZ works with partners in national governments, actors from the individual sector, ceremonious society and research institutions.

GIZ was established on 1 Jan 2011, through the merger of 3 German international development organizations: the Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt).^[3] GIZ is one of the world'due south largest development agencies, with a business volume in excess of €3.ane billion in 2019 as well as 22,199 employees spread over more 120 countries.^[4]

Additionally, in cooperation with the German Federal Employment Agency, GIZ operates the Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), an bureau specialized on international cooperation activities related to global labor mobility.^[five]

Organisation [edit]

Edifice of GIZ headquarters in Bonn, Germany

GIZ'southward headquarters are located in Bonn and Eschborn. Information technology also has a representation in Berlin and offices at xvi other locations across Germany. Outside Germany, the visitor has a representation in Brussels and operates 90 offices around the world.^[six]

Considering GIZ is incorporated under German law as a GmbH (limited liability company), it is governed by a management board that acts on behalf of the company's shareholders and is monitored by a supervisory lath.^[vii] Additionally, GIZ also has a board of trustees and a Private Sector Advisory Board.^[eight] GIZ'due south management board consists of three managing directors, namely Tanja Gönner (Chairperson), Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel and Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven.^[nine] The Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)) is GIZ'south sole shareholder.^[x] The organization is structured into 8 corporate units (Corporate Development; Corporate Communications; Legal Affairs and Insurance; Compliance and Integrity; Auditing; Evaluation; Corporate Security; Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ)) and x departments (Commissioning Parties and Concern Evolution; Sectoral Evolution; Sector and Global Programmes; Africa; Asia, Latin America, Caribbean; Europe, Mediterranean, Central Asia; International Services; Human Resources).^[11]

GIZ holds a 49% share in sequa gGmbH, the implementing partner of the German language business customs, in line with the company's objective to foster private sector development and cooperate closely with business chambers and associations abroad. Moreover, GIZ is a member of the European Network of Implementing Evolution Agencies (EUNIDA), which was co-founded by GTZ in 2000.^[12]

Activities [edit]

Staff members of GIZ and KfW together with local partners visit a projection at a school in Gitega, Burundi

GIZ's considers capacity development to be its core subject.^[13] The company'due south services are grouped into eight so-chosen "product areas" (as of January 2017):

Methods:^[xiv]
1. Informational services: management of complex projects and programs (Chapters WORKS); development partnerships with the individual sector; social touch assessment;
2. International competency evolution: e-learning, e-coaching, and east-collaboration; Leadership Development Workshop; fundamental qualifications for international cooperation; strengthening training in partner countries (capacity to build chapters); preparation specialists and managers from partner organisations;
3. Networking, dialogue and moderation: network direction; alumni networks without borders; twinning (European union administration partnerships); stakeholder dialogues; competition direction; knowledge sharing;
4. Management and logistics: grants; fund management; public procurement; cognition-based services; evaluation; results-based monitoring; Systemic Quality Improvement (SQI);
Rural Development:^[xv]
1. Agricultural policy and food: agronomical policy; rural development; country management; food and nutrition security/right to food;
2. Agricultural trade, agricultural economy, standards: standards and nutrient rubber; agronomical trade; value chains; fisheries, aquaculture, and coastal zones; local and regional evolution;
3. Agricultural production and resource utilise: sustainable utilize of natural resource and production systems in agriculture; agricultural research, innovations, education and extension; water and agriculture; climate modify and agriculture; biological diversity;
Sustainable Infrastructure:^[sixteen]
1. H2o: in the field of water, sub-topics include sustainable sanitation and water supply, water policy, water resource direction, h2o and the nexus between water and agriculture;
2. Energy: bones energy supply services (rural electrification, solar lanterns, etc.), renewable energy; free energy efficiency; international free energy policy;
3. Ship and infrastructure: transport policy and infrastructure management; sustainable urban mobility;
Security, Reconstruction and Peace:^[17]
1. Emergency aid and disaster risk management: disaster risk management; food security in the context of conflicts and disasters; reconstruction for crisis prevention;
2. Peace and security: security sector reform; crisis prevention and peacebuilding;
Social development:^[xviii]
1. Health: wellness promotion; improving sexual and reproductive health; strengthening wellness systems; HIV and health;
2. Educational activity: quality education for a improve time to come; training and capacity building for teachers;
3. Social protection: social health protection; strategies to implement social justice;
Governance and Commonwealth:^[19]
1. Republic and the dominion of constabulary: commonwealth promotion; good governance, gender; corruption prevention; human being rights; police and justice; promoting citizen interest;
2. Decentralization and urban evolution: decentralisation; urban and municipal evolution;
3. Public finance and administration: Public finance reform; public administration; strengthening good governance in the extractive sector (e.grand. EITI);
Environment and climatic change:^[20]
1. Climate modify: climate change (implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate change); integrated ozone and climate protection;
2. Natural resource management: wood policy and sustainable woods management; combating desertification (e.g. based on the UN Convention to Gainsay Desertification); biological multifariousness (implementation of the Un Convention on Biological Diversity);
3. Urban and industrial ecology direction: waste and recycling management; resource efficient economy; sustainable tourism;
4. Environmental policy: environmental policy; environmental finance; regional environmental cooperation; greenish economy;
Economic development and employment:^[21]
1. Labor market and TVET: labour-marketplace oriented TVET systems; skills development for secure livelihoods; promoting sustainable employment and employment policies (including occupational rubber and health, labor rights, unionisation, etc.);
2. Financial system development: microfinance; rural finance, financing agriculture and SMEs; insurance; financial sector stability and capital market place evolution;
3. Individual sector: private sector development; supporting value chains; local and regional economic development; shaping migration;
4. Economic policy: economic policy advice for sustainable economic development; trade; quality infrastructure and consumer protection; green economy; regional economic integration;

GIZ has been involved in the creation of various networks, associations and portals, and may carry out or support secretariat functions for some of these for a limited period of fourth dimension. Examples of such networks and associations that accept had some GIZ involvement include:

Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21)
BIOPAT
Alumniportal Germany
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance^[22]

Other global agendas supported by GIZ include S-S cooperation, i.east. bilateral cooperation between developing countries and emerging economies, and triangular cooperation betwixt developing countries every bit beneficiaries, emerging economies as "new donors" and traditional donors, e.yard. Germany, as contributors of expertise.

GIZ works closely with the German government-owned development banking concern KfW, which is based in Frankfurt. While GIZ implements those projects on behalf of the BMZ that vest to "technical cooperation", i.eastward. chapters development, the KfW implements those BMZ projects belonging to "financial cooperation".^[23]

GIZ is currently represented in the Certain® Stakeholder Council.^[24] Sure® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure is a global voluntary standard which integrates primal criteria of sustainability and resilience into infrastructure development and upgrade. SuRe® is developed by GIB Foundation and Natixis as role of a multi-stakeholder procedure and will exist compliant with ISEAL guidelines.^[25]

Finally, GIZ also hosts the Eschborn Dialogue, a two-day issue that offers international experts a forum to exchange knowledge and experiences on a given topic in international cooperation (east.g. "Globe in motion: mobility, migration, digital change" in 2014 or "Raw materials and resources: growth, values, contest" in 2013). The Eschborn Dialogue has been organized each year since 1988.^[26]

Commissioning Parties [edit]

GIZ mainly operates on behalf of the Federal Ministry building for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). At the national level, GIZ, however, is besides commissioned by other government departments, e.g. the Federal Foreign Function, the Federal Ministry building for the Environment (BMU), or the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi),^[27] as well as by German states and municipalities.^[28] At the international level, GIZ cooperates with the European Union,^[29] UN agencies, other international institutions such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFFATM),^[30] and foreign governments.^[31] The cooperation with individual enterprises is an emerging field, promoted under the proper name of sustainable development. The GIZ is set upward with International Services (IS) and the Public Private Partnership (PPP)^[32] in this area.

Meet too [edit]

List of development aid agencies

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