GTZ - Fields of Activity

Fields of Activity

The GIZ provides services in the following areas of sustainable development:

• Economic Development and Employment (including services such as vocational training, economic policy advice, financial systems development or private sector promotion)
• Government, Democracy and Poverty Reduction (including services and working fields such as development-oriented emergency aid, peace building and crisis prevention, governance, sustainable urban development or structural poverty reduction)
• Education, Health and Social Security (including working fields such as education, development-oriented drug control, promotion of children and young people or HIV/AIDS prevention)
• Environment and Infrastructure (including activities such as waste, energy and water management, natural resource management, transport and mobility, implementing international environmental regimes or environmental policy, climate change-related capacity building)
• Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (including services such as coastal zone management, land management, market-oriented farming and food systems, policy advice on agriculture and rural development or securing livelihoods in marginal rural areas)

GIZ works on a public-benefit basis. All surpluses generated are channeled back into its own international cooperation projects for sustainable development.