German Society for International Cooperation

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Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)

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legal form GmbH
founding January 1, 2011
Seat Bonn and Eschborn , Germany
GermanyGermany 
management Tanja Gönner
(Board Spokeswoman)
Martin Jäger (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Number of employees 20,726
sales approx. € 2.6 billion (2017)
Branch Development cooperation
Website www.giz.de
As of December 31, 2018

The German Society for International Cooperation ( GIZ ) GmbH is a development cooperation organization that operates internationally on behalf of various ministries in the Federal Republic of Germany .

It emerged on January 1, 2011 from the merger of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the International Training and Development GmbH (InWEnt) and the German Development Service (DED).

The company is entered in the commercial registers in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main as a GmbH and has its headquarters in both Bonn and Eschborn .

tasks

GIZ is responsible for carrying out the technical cooperation agreed by the client . The technical cooperation consists primarily of advice, financial contributions, development services, establishment and promotion of project sponsors, provision of equipment and material and the preparation of studies and expert opinions. GIZ is also active in international educational work.

Development workers from the former German Development Service strongly criticize the merging and orientation of GIZ. In their opinion, the focus shifted to business development. The fight against poverty and helping people to help themselves are neglected according to this criticism.

GIZ operates the Academy for International Cooperation , based in Bonn, to train its own employees, but also for over 40 external organizations .

Client

GIZ's most important clients are primarily the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and other ministries such as the Federal Foreign Office , the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . In addition, there are federal states, municipalities and other public and private clients such as governments of other countries, the European Commission , the United Nations and the World Bank .

The board spokeswoman Tanja Gönner (in office since 2012) has set herself the goal of attracting new clients outside the public sector; At the same time, GIZ is to achieve a “merger return” by merging the three previously existing government development aid organizations and reducing duplicate structures.

Organization and implementation

GIZ headquarters in Bonn
Listed GIZ building in Berlin

GIZ has two corporate headquarters in Germany: one in Bonn, the location of the former DED and InWEnt, and one in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main, the former location of GTZ. GIZ also has representative offices in Berlin and Brussels and has regional offices in four other German cities.

GIZ has 90 locations worldwide. It either shares the country offices with other German development cooperation organizations or has its own offices. From there, the employees work in the area.

Employee

GIZ employs 20,726 people in over 120 countries (as of December 31, 2018), almost 70 percent of whom are local. There are also 577 development workers and 317 integrated and 518 returning experts from the Center for International Migration and Development (CIM). GIZ has not offered a weltwärts volunteer service since 2013 .

Since GIZ employees also work in countries with an inadequate security situation, individuals have been the target of kidnappings and violent crimes in the past (kidnapping in Afghanistan in 2015, fatal attack in Niger in 2018, among others).

Seat

Bonn

In Bonn, GIZ is currently based at three locations in the federal district: two rental properties, including an office building at Godesberger Allee 119 and the so-called “Bonn-Karree” at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 40 (former seat of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ), as well as the company's own "Mäanderbau" (Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 36). This was the first of two construction phases of the office building marketed as “B9 Offices” for 70 million euros and offers space for around 500 employees. The purchase contract for the building was signed on August 22, 2012, the foundation stone was laid on June 28, 2013, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on March 28, 2014 and the inauguration on June 26, 2015. The purchase contract for the second construction phase was signed on June 18, 2014. Signed December 2015, it should cost 158 ​​million euros by the end of 2019 and take on around 850 employees. The aim is to bring all GIZ employees together at one location.

Eschborn

Eschborn is the GIZ location with the largest number of employees. These are spread over eight buildings, some of which are owned and some are rented.

Others

In Pakistan , the police there arrested three alleged BND employees in 2012 who pretended to be GIZ employees and had legends about them.

See also

Web links

Commons : German Society for International Cooperation  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of GIZ , accessed on 5 June 2019.
  2. ↑ GIZ imprint , accessed on 9 January 2011.
  3. ↑ BMZ What we do: Technical cooperation , accessed on January 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: Learning and Helping in Übersee , June 24, 2013
  5. ↑ Uta Rasche: Just save the world for a moment , FAZ May 28, 2013, online
  6. ↑ Portrait at giz.de
  7. ↑ GIZ withdraws from "Weltwärts" , taz. the daily newspaper , September 5, 2012, accessed on May 26, 2018
  8. ↑ Matthias Gebauer, Shoib Najafizada: kidnapping in Afghanistan: Armed kidnap German aid worker . In: Spiegel Online . August 17, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 19, 2018]).
  9. ↑ giz: Mourning for Nigerien employees. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  10. ↑ GIZ Bonn Offices ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.giz.de
  11. ↑ Bonn B9 Office ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bosau Lammerz real estate  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bli-bonn.de
  12. ↑ The purchase of the "Meander Building" is perfect , GIZ press release, 22 August 2012
  13. ^ Laying of the foundation stone on the Meander , GIZ press release, June 28, 2013
  14. ↑ GIZ is building a meandering structure for 70 million euros , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, 1 July 2013
  15. ^ Another building block for international Bonn , GIZ press release, 28 March 2014
  16. ^ Meander construction for 70 million euros , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 31, 2014
  17. ↑ GIZ inaugurates the meander construction - a new highlight for Bonn as an international location , GIZ press release, 26 June 2015
  18. ↑ The Meander Building in Bonn ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Society for International Cooperation  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.giz.de
  19. ↑ A neighbor for building meanders: GIZ continues to invest at its headquarters in Bonn , GIZ press release, 18 December 2015
  20. ^ Incident in Peshawar: Agent affair strains Germany's relations with Pakistan. In: Spiegel.de. Retrieved January 23, 2012, 2015 .