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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
AbbreviationGIZ
Formation1 January 2011; 13 years ago (2011-01-01)
Typegovernmental
Legal statusGmbH
PurposeDevelopment aid
Location
Executive director
Tanja Gönner
Staff16,410[1]
Websitewww.giz.de

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH or just GIZ in short, is a company that specializes in international development. The German name of the company translates to English as "German Corporation for International Cooperation", however the German title of the organization purposefully has no official translation in the company's publications. GIZ is owned by the German Federal Government and operates in more than 130 countries. Its headquarters are located in Bonn and Eschborn, Germany.[1]

GIZ was established on 1 January 2011 through a merger of the three German organisations: Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt).[2]

GIZ works in a variety of fields, namely: economic development and employment; government, democracy and poverty reduction; education, health and social security; environment and infrastructure; and agriculture, fisheries and food. GIZ works primarily with states, state agencies, and the private sector (and not normally with, for example, non-governmental organizations, universities or research organizations).

Clients

Building of GIZ headquarters in Bonn, Germany
Staff members of GIZ and KfW together with local partners visit a project at a school in Gitega, Burundi

GIZ mainly operates on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Further clients are other departments of the government, international donors like the European Union, World Bank or the United Nations, partner countries and the private sector. The cooperation with private enterprises is an emerging field, promoted under the name of sustainable development. The GIZ is set up with International Services (IS) and the Public Private Partnership (PPP)[3] in this area.

GIZ works on a public-benefit basis.[1]

Facts and figures

With a turnover of € 2.1 billion in 2012, some €1.87 billion came from projects and programmes for public clients, such as the BMZ, other German federal ministries or the EU. Roughly 90 percent of GIZ's turnover was under contracts from the German Federal Government. The GIZ made 18.7 percent (€230 million) in 2012 from contracts from other clients such as financing institutions or private sector companies. €956 million of its turnover have been channeled through to third-party-consultancies.

As of 2012, GIZ has about 16,000 employees working in more than 130 countries, including about 1,900 at its head offices in Eschborn (near Frankfurt am Main) and Bonn. About 70 percent of its staff are local employees in the partner countries.[4]

Fields of activity

GIZ's main activities in its partner countries are focusing on sustainable development and resource management:[5]

  • Economic development and employment (including services such as vocational training, economic policy advice, financial systems development or private sector promotion)
  • Government, democracy and poverty reduction (including services and working fields such as development-oriented emergency aid, peace building and crisis prevention, governance, sustainable urban development or structural poverty reduction)
  • Education, health and social security (including working fields such as education, development-oriented drug control, promotion of children and young people or HIV/AIDS prevention)
  • Environment and infrastructure (including activities such as waste, energy and water management, sustainable sanitation, natural resource management, transport and mobility, implementing international environmental regimes or environmental policy, climate change-related capacity building[6])[7]
  • Agriculture, fisheries and food (including services such as coastal zone management, land management, market-oriented farming and food systems, policy advice on agriculture and rural development or securing livelihoods in marginal rural areas)

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 time. Examples of such networks and associations that have had some GIZ involvement include:

GIZ works closely with the German government-owned development bank KfW which is based in Frankfurt. In this collaboration, GIZ has the role of what is being called "technical cooperation" by the German agencies, and KfW has the role of "financial cooperation".[citation needed]

GIZ is currently represented in the SuRe® Stakeholder Council.[9] SuRe® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure is a global voluntary standard which integrates key criteria of sustainability and resilience into infrastructure development and upgrade. SuRe® is developed by GIB Foundation and Natixis as part of a multi-stakeholder process and will be compliant with ISEAL guidelines.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Profile". Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). 31 December 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Merger of public development agencies" German Federal Ministry for Economical Cooperation, 16 December 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Development Partnerships with the Private Sector (PPP)". Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  4. ^ GIZ Corporat Report 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Range of services". Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  6. ^ "Low Carbon Leadership Network: Emission Trading Schemes – European and Asian Perspectives of Cooperation". China Carbon Forum / 中国碳论坛. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  7. ^ GIZ (2015). Water for all. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany
  8. ^ "Products and services: Sustainable infrastructure - Advisory service (sustainable sanitation)" (PDF). Website of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  9. ^ http://www.gib-foundation.org/sure-stakeholder-council/
  10. ^ https://issuu.com/utkmedia/docs/nachhaltigesinvestment_2016/65?e=1307954/30767650
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