Capacity Development

As an organisation involved in international cooperation, we are commissioned by the German federal government to make an important contribution to equitable and sustainable development. In addition, we conduct programmes for other German federal ministries. We also work in cooperation with German companies in public private partnership projects.

At an international level, we work with the European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations.

Our capacity development programmes are designed for experts and executives from politics, administration, the business community and civil society. GIZ qualifies people to pass on their knowledge to others and effect long-term structural changes. Our objective is to shape globalisation fairly and to encourage sustainable development. To reach more and more people, we have designed a series of online courses. Some of these are complemented by face-to-face sessions. As we are a not-for-profit organisation, our fees for the GC21 E-Academy courses are based exclusively on the costs we incur in running the courses themselves, i.e. for use of the web platform, administrative operations and for assistance provided by tutors and experts. The contents of the courses are free in almost all cases (see the copyright information for each course).