Capacity Building International

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• Capacity Building International
• Your Partner
• for human resources and organisational
  development within international cooperation

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Facts and figures
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InWEnt - a partner of German business

• As globally operating organisation specialising
  in
• dialogue
• training
• advanced training
• InWEnt co-operates closely with business in
  Germany and abroad

• Roughly 60 of InWEnts products are
  business-oriented and address
• companies
• chambers and associations
• business associations and economic policies

• Objectives are
• to improve the international competitiveness of
  companies
• to integrate economies of partner nations into
  international economic and trade relations
• to secure employment and generate income in
  partner countries

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Business fields

• good governance and reform processes
• crisis prevention and peace development
• social development
• environment and natural resources
• sustainable business development
• international relations and foreign trade
• international vocational training
• development education

Methodological expertise

• competence in international interaction
• change management
• knowledge communities
• e-learning
• political dialogue
• trusteeship
• intercultural programme management

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Business fields and products within the context
of international economic co-operation

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Foreign trade and commercial politics
Skilled people, competent institutions and common
learning processes are precondition for
sustainable economic development and global
growth.

• InWEnt promotes
• the advancement of foreign trade relations
• innovation capacity and competitiveness of
  companies
• employment and career opportunities of programme
  participants

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Sustainable economic activities
German companies that demonstrate an early
commitment in developing and transition countries
will have a competitive advantage over other
market participants.

• InWEnt supports the business community in
  developing and transition countries by
• advancing contacts between companies, managerial
  staff, politics and administrations
• imparting exemplary solutions for management
  issues

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Macroeconomics and the financial sector
Economic policies based on free market economy,
healthy public finances as well as a functioning
financial system guarantee growth and social
security for the population.

• InWEnt supports
• a regulatory policy based on the principles of
  free market economy in developing and transition
  countries
• the creation of functioning financial systems

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Economic reforms and transition
The economic restructuring in transitions
countries and their integration into global
markets necessitates expertise in the field of
free market economy and business administration
as well as managerial competence.

• InWEnt champions
• the implementation of a free market economy
• the modernisation of production technologies
• the development of managerial expertise in
  companies

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Vocational training and employment
Innovation capacity, flexibility and quality
assurance are central elements of vocational
training they ensure that companies will remain
competitive on international markets.

• InWEnt furthers
• the international character and mobility of
  vocational training and advanced training
• the innovation of national vocational training
  systems
• the creation of a uniform European educational
  community

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International executive competence for the staff
of German companies
as central precondition for successful work in
foreign environments

• InWEnts Training Center for Development
  Co-operation (V-EZ) specialises in
• extending the behavioural repertoire for
  intercultural performance during work-related
  stays abroad
• imparting international executive competence
• training modules in the field of
• intercultural communication
• conflict management
• presentation and facilitation techniques
• cross cultural and foreign language education,
  tailored to meet specific customer requirements

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Programme Management training for executives
from transition countries
Russian Federation (BMWA), Ukraine (BMWA),
Kazakhstan (BMZ), Georgia (BMZ)

• Objectives
• market-oriented business management and opening
  up to global markets
• establishing business contacts with German
  companies

Target groupexecutives working in top and
middle management, as a rule from small and
medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
Example Russian Presidents programme Figures
1998 2004participants in Germany 2,320BMWA
grants 23.2mGerman business communitys
input 14mco-financing by federal states
(Länder) 1.9m
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Programme Management training for executives
from transition countries
Sustainability and achievements

• co-operation with regional alumni associations
• providing advanced training and advice
• strengthening of business contacts with Germany
• Follow-up seminars and evaluation of
  achievements in Russia
• 80 of participants initiate changes within
  their companies
• 50 of participants maintain contacts with
  German companies
• Volume of supply contracts with German companies
  up to 2003 120m

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Promotion of foreign trade for federal states
(Länder)

• co-operation with partner countries and partner
  regions of individual federal states
• implementation of scholarship programmes to
  create bonds between important target groups
  (from business, politics, administration) and the
  relevant federal state
• companies command co-operation partners that are
  familiar with products, processes, corporate
  culture and language
• alumni networks facilitate the continuous
  utilization of this potential

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Regional business networks
Regional business circles of Carl Duisberg
Gesellschaft e.V.

• advance InWEnts activities
• regional centres provide organisational support
• organise events with a focus on globalisation,
  foreign trade, development co-operation

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Public Private Partnership (PPP)

• programme is marketed via regional institutions
  such as chambers, CDG business circles, etc.
• ties to regional and sectoral focal points of
  foreign trade promotion
• decentralised organisation of projects in the
  federal state where PPP is headquartered

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Industrial Training Germany (ILT)

• 12 one-month programmes with ca. 500 participants
  per year from partner countries of the BMZ
• Geared to focal areas of German development
  co-operation
• As a rule, decentralised implementation in
  federal states
• Many ILTs have clear emphasis on business-related
  themes
• regional business promotion
• international marketing
• water
• sustainable energy

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Business and domestic development co-operation
Intercultural competence helps the staff of
German companies to strengthen their business
relations with foreign countries and enhances the
attractiveness of Germany as business location
and the nations international competitiveness.

• InWEnt promotes
• a network of co-operation projects between
  companies, civil society organisations, local
  governments and the media, thus integrating
  development policy issues into the co-operation
  with local and regional businesses.

• Approaches
• fair trade
• fair supply chain management
• corporate social responsibility
• industrial environmental protection

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Examples for the co-operation with business in
federal states (Länder)

• partnership North Rhine-Westphalia Shanxi,
  China

• internship programme Hamburg St. Petersburg
  Kaliningrad

• Lower Saxony Job fit for Europe

• PPP project co-operation model federal
  government federal state business in
  Saxony-Anhalt

• training for information and communication
  technologies in Algeria

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Internal control mechanisms

• Business Round Table
• InWEnts internal co-ordination unit pools the
  numerous co-operation approaches of InWEnt and
  the business community
• further develops economy-related business fields
• partner for external contacts
• internal motivational factor

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Thank you very much for your attention!