Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ GmbH Company Profile Research Cooperation

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Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbHCompany Profile
Research CooperationsWAITRO Seminar Schloß
Birlinghoven 6 - 7 September 2007Dr. Heiko
Roehl, Leader Corporate Organisation
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• Content
• Development Cooperation in a changing world
• GTZ Vision and Values
• GTZ Facts and Figures
• Fields of competence
• Sustainable Development
• Actors in Development Cooperation
• Research Cooperations/Example

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A Changing World
Crises, conflicts and international terrorism are
spreading
The economy is going global
New political regulatory mechanisms (global
governance) and international conventions are
becoming more important
Social inequality within and between societies is
on the increase
Transboundary environmental problems
Migration is rising
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• New Challenges for
• Development Cooperation

Developing competence to act at global level
Crisis prevention and peace building are
additional tasks
Complex tasks and rising budgets
Coming to terms with increasing complexityactors
are diversely interrelated and problem chains are
mutually reinforcing
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Our Vision

• We successfully promote international
  cooperation which contributes to sustainable
  development throughout the world.
• Our company is strengthening its position on
  the global market for international
  cooperation services.

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Our Mission

• We are a government-owned corporation with
  international operations.
• We implement contracts for the German Federal
  Government and other national and international
  public and private-sector clients.
• We further political, economic, ecological and
  social development worldwide, and so improve
  peoples living conditions.
• We provide services that support complex
  development and reform processes.

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Our Common Values (1)

• We act on the conviction that
• respect for human rights and the dignity and
  uniqueness of each individual create the
  basis for international cooperation
• rule of law, legal security and citizens
  participation in the political process are
  prerequisites for effective government action
• the responsible use of environmental and natural
  resources secures development opportunities
  for future generations

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Our Common Values (2)

• We act on the conviction that
• a market-friendly and socially-oriented
  economic order together with
  development-focused governance are the
  platform for income security and progress
• effective contributions to peace and security
  are key pillars of development
• cooperation in a spirit of partnership leads to
  success
• transparency and integrity engender clarity and
  understandability of corporate action both
  within our organisation and externally, and
  so create trust

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Instruments of Official Bilateral Cooperation
Financial Cooperation
Technical Cooperation
Human Resources Cooperation
Food Aid, Emergency and Refugee Aid
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Tunesia
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• Our Clients (2006)

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development
EUR 703.8million
Other German federal ministries and Laender
EUR 67.5million

• Other clients, including
• World Bank
• European Commission
• KfW Entwicklungsbank
• UN
• Regional development banks
• Gulf States

EUR 286.6million
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Personnel Working for GTZ
Support and steering tasks
Operational tasks
31.12.2006
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GTZ Field Staff by Region
31.12.2006(seconded experts)
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• GTZ - Facts and Figures

New contracts
1.152.9 million
Turnover
944.6 million
Ongoing projects
2.198
Partner countries
123
GTZ field staff
1.100
National personnel
8.974
Staff at Head Office
967
as at 2006
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Fields of Competence
Economic and employment promotion
State and democracy
Agriculture, fisheries and food
Health, education, social security
Environment and infrastructure
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Capacity Development - Our Core Competence
Building the capacities of people, organisations
and societies
Objective Partners are able to make effective
and efficient use of resources in order to
achieve their own goals on a sustainable basis.
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Capacity Development - Dimensions
People
Developing human resources, transferring
knowledge, experience and skills enhancing
opportunities of individuals to participate in
society...
Organisations
Boosting organisational output through training
and upgrading for the members of the
organisation, improving work processes...
Institutions and Policies
Developing democratic, rule-of-law institutions
as well as the social and ecological market
economy improving the legal and administrative
framework...
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• Sustainable Development
• GTZs Guiding Principle

For us, sustainable development means

• Ensuring efficient business operations in order
  to create more prosperity

• Distributing opportunities equally between rich
  and poor, North and South, men and women

• Using natural resources today so as to
  preserve them for future generations

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Sustainable development at GTZ the way we work
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Actors in Cooperation taking a BMZ contract as an
example

• Partner-country government
• formulates the objectives of its development
  policy
• conducts a political dialogue with the
  German Government about the objectives and
  priority areas of cooperation
• requests technical cooperation measures from
  the German Government
• bears the political responsibility for the
  project

BMZ
Cooperation partners
GTZ
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Actors in Cooperation taking a BMZ contract as an
example

• BMZ
• lays down the objectives, priority
  areas and instruments of German Development
  Cooperation
• conducts a policy dialogue with
  partner-country governments about the
  objectives and priority areas of development
  cooperation
• selects projects and programmes for
  promotion
• decides on the design and implementation
  of the German contribution
• awards contract to GTZ to implement the
  German contribution

Partner-country government
Cooperation partners
GTZ
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Actors in Cooperation taking a BMZ contract as an
example
BMZ
Partner-country government

• Cooperation partners
• (in this case the implementing organisation)
• prepare projects and programmes
• implement projects and programmes

GTZ
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Actors in Cooperation taking a BMZ contract as an
example
BMZ
Partner-country government

• GTZ
• advises BMZ on the selection of projects
  eligible for promotion
• appraises projects together with the
  partners
• provides various services to fulfil the
  terms of the contracts
• shares responsibility for achieving
  objectives with partners
• steers projects towards the intended goal
• constantly monitors the achievability of the
  overall goal

Cooperation partners
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Our Wide Range of Services

• consultancy services and support for
  organisations and governments to help them
  perform their work and establish democratic
  institutions based on the rule of law as well as
  a social and ecological market economy
• project and financial management
• selection, preparation and supervision of
  experts for field assignments
• logistics as well as concept development,
  steering and implementation in the field of
  cooperation and administrative management
• technical planning and purchasing materials and
  equipment for projects
• organising and running further training and
  upgrading events
• awarding and handling non-repayable financial
  contributions from technical cooperation funds

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• Public Private Partnerships (PPP) with
• German Private Sector

German Development Cooperation
PrivateSector
PPP

• PPP projects must
• engender development-policy benefits
• mobilise additional resources for developing
  countries
• be in the commercial interest of the private
  enterprises involved.

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Cooperation with the Private Sector in
Germany and in Cooperation Countries
Objective
to harness synergies for economic development by
entering into a partnership between Development
Cooperation and private industry (especially
within the framework of Public Private
Partnerships, PPP)
Fields of cooperation
a wide spectrum of possible fields of
cooperation, from AIDS control to seed
certification
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Exemplary Research Cooperations Africa (I)
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Exemplary Research Cooperations Africa (II)