WHAT DOES GIZ DO?

GIZ has more than 19,500 staff around the globe and operates in about 120 countries worldwide, i.e. almost everywhere. We provide consulting services to industrialised countries preparing for accession to the EU, and to German federal states on the transition to new forms of energy. We assist emerging economies in addressing the impacts of climate change effectively. We work towards alleviating famine in developing countries. We operate in many fragile states, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, promoting economic development. In the countries of the Arab revolution, we support young people by joining forces with the German and local private sector to create jobs. Germany’s highly acclaimed vocational training system serves as a model for education projects in Viet Nam and Saudi Arabia. We arrange training courses for German experts and managers in Norway and Russia and place scholarship students in the USA, Japan and Israel. Foreign managers come to learn in German companies and in our regional training centres. 

To put it briefly, our experts support sustainable change – in countries as varied as Brazil, Kenya and Germany.