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GIZ Profile: sustainable development for a liveable future

As 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. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

What is a future worth living?

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. Since we are a public-benefit federal enterprise, German and European values are central to our work. 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.  

The registered offices of GIZ are in Bonn and Eschborn. In 2023, we generated a business volume of around EUR 4 billion. Our 25,634 employees, almost 70 per cent of whom are national staff, work in around 120 countries. As a recognised development service provider, we currently have 285 development workers in action in partner countries. Furthermore, in 2023, GIZ placed 113 integrated experts and 92 returning experts with local employers in our partner countries, or provided them with financial support, advice or other services.*  

* Personnel and business figures as at 31 December 2023 

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