Technical cooperation
The Technical Cooperation (also TC ) is a concept of public development aid . According to the rules of the OECD , it includes:
- Grants to nationals of recipient countries ( developing countries ) who benefit from general or vocational training measures in their home country or abroad;
- Payments to consultants, experts, teachers and administrators working in the recipient countries (including the cost of the relevant equipment).
The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) is an important German implementing organization for technical cooperation . The Federal Government, above all the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation BMZ, also uses the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials BGR or the Federal Institute for Physics and Technology . On the one hand, GIZ carries out projects for the German government and subcontracts some of these projects to consulting companies; on the other hand, it acts like a private consulting company and competes with them for projects from international organizations. For the implementation of complex projects, donor organizations such as the EU Commission , World Bank , GIZ or KfW often use private consulting firms, which in Germany are mainly organized in the Association of Independent Consulting Engineers and Consultants VUBIC (since 2009: VBI).