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  • Key news

  • Tanja Gönner new Chair of GIZ Management Board

    On 23 April the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH appointed the new Management Board. Tanja Gönner will be Chair of the Management Board.
  • Making a future together

    ‘Future-makers' – Spotlight of the Year 2012 – launched at GIZ’s Berlin Representation. BMZ, KfW and GIZ team up for a joint annual theme for the first time.
  • New issue of the GIZ magazine akzente

    This issue focuses on political participation. Read the IN FOCUS section to find out how free elections, facebook and the courage to speak out all contribute to a vibrant democracy.



  • Recent news

  • Tanja Gönner new Chair of GIZ Management Board

    On 23 April the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH appointed the new Management Board. Tanja Gönner will be Chair of the Management Board.
  • Making a future together

    ‘Future-makers' – Spotlight of the Year 2012 – launched at GIZ’s Berlin Representation. BMZ, KfW and GIZ team up for a joint annual theme for the first time.
  • New issue of the GIZ magazine akzente

    This issue focuses on political participation. Read the IN FOCUS section to find out how free elections, facebook and the courage to speak out all contribute to a vibrant democracy.
  • GIZ at work: Senegal.fm

    How can local radio support democracy? Senegal took centre stage in the latest instalment of GIZ and rbb’s event series.
  • A new insurance product to help when crops fail

    The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) joins forces with Allianz and SDC. More than five million farmers in asia will in future be able to protect themselves against ruin when their crops fail.
  • Goethe-Institut and GIZ sign cooperation agreement

    The Goethe-Institut and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) are extending their current partnership.
  • 25 insights into the work of GIZ

    25th edition of ‘GIZ at work’, a partnership between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Inforadio channel of broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (rbb).
  • DAAD and GIZ enter into a strategic partnership

    The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) are planning to work together more closely in future in the higher education sector.
  • Strengthening a network of prosecutors

    GIZ and the Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC) are implementing a project to fight organised crime and corruption in the Western Balkans – with cofinancing from the EU.
  • Cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation

    How can art and culture contribute to social change? GIZ was one of the cooperation partners for the international conference ‘radius of art’.
  • Eleventh student competition ‘Between Lecture Hall and Project Work’ closes

    The eleventh student competition ‘Between Lecture Hall and Project Work’ organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in cooperation with universities in Berlin has ended.
  • Germany in the eyes of the world

    GIZ Managing Director Christoph Beier has been appointed one of the experts in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ‘Human and Successful – Dialogue on Germany’s Future’ initiative.
  • New GIZ website

    On 23 January 2012, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH launched its new website at www.giz.de.