About us
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. We have over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector, and governments of other countries. We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. The guiding principle is sustainability. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The commissioning parties and cooperation partners all place their trust in GIZ, and we work with them to generate ideas for political, social and economic change, to develop these into concrete plans and to implement them. As a public-benefit federal enterprise in international cooperation with a focus on sustainability, we represent German and European values. Together with our partners in national governments worldwide and cooperation partners from the worlds of business, research and civil society, we work flexibly to deliver effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions.
Sustainable development worldwide
The registered offices of GIZ are in Bonn and Eschborn. In 2021, we generated a business volume of around EUR 3.7 billion. Our 25,422 employees work in 120 countries for sustainable development. Almost 70 per cent of them are national employees and work in the region. As a recognised development service provider, we currently have 353 development workers in action in partner countries. Furthermore, in 2022, the Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), which is run jointly by GIZ and the German Federal Employment Agency, placed 143 integrated experts and 257 returning experts with local employers in our partner countries, or provided them with financial support, advice or other services.*
*Personnel figures as at 31 December 2022
Contact
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 32 + 36
53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0) 228 44 60-0
Fax: +49 (0) 228 44 60-17 66
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5
65760 Eschborn
Phone: +49 (0) 6196 79-0
Fax: +49 (0) 6196 79-11 15
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