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The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ( English: German Development Cooperation (GIZ) ), often simply shortened to GIZ, is the main German development agency. It is headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn and provides services in the field of international development cooperation and international education work.
An international financial institution ( IFI) is a financial institution that has been established (or chartered) by more than one country, and hence is subject to international law. Its owners or shareholders are generally national governments, although other international institutions and other organizations occasionally figure as shareholders.
Development finance institution. Development financial institution ( DFI ), also known as a Development bank, is a financial institution that provides risk capital for economic development projects on a non-commercial basis. DFIs are often established and owned by governments or nonprofit organizations to finance projects that would otherwise ...
KfW. The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt. As of 2014, it is the world's largest national development bank [2] and as of 2018 Germany's third largest bank by balance sheet.
InWEnt was a non-profit organisation (gGmbH) owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft e. V. (CDG), and the German Foundation for International Development (DSE). Most of its programmes were commissioned by the German government through the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). See also
The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) was created by the Secretary-General in 1997, to improve the effectiveness of UN development at the country level. The UNDG brings together the operational agencies working on development. The Group is chaired by the Administrator of UNDP. UNDP also provides the Secretariat to the Group.
The library of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) is structured like a public reference library. It has some 48,000 volumes, 150 periodicals and the most important German and English daily and weekly newspapers. IDOS places great value in maintaining and evaluating national and international periodicals.
The Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED) ( German Development Service) was a German development organization active between 1963 and 2010. [1] It was one of the leading European development services for personnel cooperation. It was focused on sending professional Germans to work in developing countries on small development projects.