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InWEnt is an organization for international human resource development, advanced training and dialogue. InWEnt offers training programmes relevant for the sustainable development of the partner and cooperation countries. These training programmes take place in BMZ's cooperation countries, in Germany, as well as online on InWEnt's e-cooperation platform "Global Campus 21" (http://www.gc21.de).

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"Priority countries" are defined to have three priority sectors, "partner countries" should be limited to one. The distinction between "priority" and "partner" countries is not connected to a higher or lower aid amount level. The different naming only focuses on programme emphasis and intensity of development cooperation.

Priority countries
There are 37 countries defined as priority countries (14 in Sub-Saharan Africa, 9 in Asia and Oceania, 5 in the Middle East, 5 in Latin America, 4 in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS).

Priority countries are, among others, Egypt, Yemen, the Palestinian Authority, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal, Philippines, Viet Nam, Bolivia, Peru.

BMZ and the partner country develop strategy papers and country concepts for priority countries that constitute the basis of the sector-political discourse between the recipient country, BMZ and other donors.

Partner countries
The 33 partner countries show the following regional distribution: 10 Latin American countries, 9 Sub-Saharan African countries, 5 countries in Asia and Oceania, 5 in Central and Eastern Europe and CIS, 4 countries in the Middle East.

Mauritania, Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Niger, Chad, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Thailand, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Romania and others are German partner countries.

Potential cooperation countries
Germany has set up a list of potential cooperation countries. Concerning these countries Germany currently sees no cooperation possibility due to the country's (structural) situation. In case of changing circumstances, these countries would be candidates for support:

Syrian Arab Republic, Sudan, Togo, Myanmar, Haiti are among the potential cooperation countries.[1]

BMZ has developed a Central Asia Concept and a Caucasus Initiative.

The Central Asia Concept focuses on the strengthening of democratic and rule-of-law structures, the support of economic reforms and poverty reduction, and the promotion of supra-national co-operation.
http://www.bmz.de > English > Topics > BMZ Central Asia Concept

The focus of the Caucasus Initiative lies on conflict reduction and crisis prevention.

Multi-country approaches in the Caucasus concentrate on the development of the legal system and the strengthening of democracy, support of the energy sector, fostering the private sector, supporting the fight against tuberculosis, promoting the protection of biosphere reserves.
http://www.bmz.de > English > Topics > BMZ Caucasus Initiative

GTZ's website provides country project descriptions:
http://www.gtz.de > English > Countries;
http://www.gtz.de > English > Introducing GTZ > What we do > themes and key areas > Project search [French, German, English, Spanish].

Descriptions of more than 700 projects can currently be accessed on the GTZ website (in German and English, some are also in French and Spanish).

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BMZ concentrates on eleven thematic and sectoral focal areas:

• democracy, civil society and public administration (human rights - especially women's and children's rights, legal reform, decentralisation and municipal development);
• peace-building and crisis prevention (including the strengthening of peace constituencies, reconciliation, demobilisation);
• education;
• health, family planning, HIV/AIDS;
• water supply, water management, sanitation/solid waste management;
• food security, agriculture (including fisheries);
• environmental policy, conservation and sustainable management of natural resources (including desertification control, maintenance of soil fertility, sustainable forest management, biodiversity);
• economic reform and establishment of a market economy (including financing, trade policy and private-sector promotion, employment, vocational training, informal sector, small and medium-sized enterprises, industrial environmental protection);
• energy (including energy efficiency, renewable energies);
• transport and communications;
• regional focus within the scope of integrated approaches to rural or urban development. 

GTZ is committed to the fields of policy reforms, rural development, social development, environment and infrastructure and also considers cross-sectoral topics.

These and more sectoral themes fall under the named rubriques:

• Political reforms: democracy and rule of law, decentralization/ local governance, public finance, economic reform, etc.
• Rural development: poverty and hunger, farming and food, regionalization, natural resources, etc.
• Social development: health and population, education, HIV/AIDS, social protection, etc.
• Environment and Infrastructure: environmental policy, eco-efficiency, water, energy, transport, social and ecological standards, etc.
• Economic development and employment: vocational training, private sector, ICT and economy, financial systems, etc.
• Cross-sectoral themes: gender, crisis prevention, youth, HIV/ AIDS, emergency aid, poverty, food and nutrition security, Rio +10, PPP, social and ecological standards, etc.

You can all of GTZ's sectoral themes in a pull down menu here:
http://www.gtz.de > English > Sectoral Themes

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Over a period of more than 30 years, GTZ has provided advisory services and technical assistance components covering the whole range of expertise needed to develop efficient and effective TVET systems. TVET is an integral part of GTZ's focal area "Economic Reform and Development of the Market System" (WiRAM) strategies. GTZ's services and contributions are tailor-made and address the needs of institutions and individuals in the context of their country's development process. As a partner, GTZ provides services ranging from targeting specific components of the TVET system to holistic systems support: employment-oriented qualification systems; centres for advanced technology training and services; qualification of TVET management and teaching staff and development of curricula; qualification for poverty reduction and reconstruction.[3]

Please find more sectoral themes relating to economic development and employment here: http://www.gtz.de > English > Sectoral Themes > Vocational Training. These are private sector promotion in technical cooperation (small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector), financial system development, and ICT & economy.

InWEnt provides assistance in the development of effective vocational training systems and seeks to improve existing curricula in cooperation countries by making them more practice-oriented. The following areas, considered as increasingly important in the context of promoting economically, socially and ecologically oriented TVET, are being supported by InWEnt:

• vocational training policy, labour markets and employment: policy seminars, labour market research and training tailored to specific target groups, promotion of labour market and careers information systems;
• system development: vocational training planning and research, skills-based and employment-oriented training systems, quality management;
• technology- and environment-oriented networks: train-the-trainer, in-company human resource development, environmentally friendly technologies, curricula and media development.

The Foundation for Economic Development and Vocational Training (SEQUA) was founded in 1991 as subsidiary of the DIHK (Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry), ZDH (German Confederation of Small Business and Skilled Crafts) and BDA (Confederation of German Employers' Associations). As a non-profit development organization of the German private sector, SEQUA seeks to mobilise the know-how and resources of German business organizations and enterprises for programmes and projects of international cooperation. It carries out projects focusing on the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises and the support of vocational training in its cooperation countries up to now. SEQUA's projects are funded by public and private donors, with the BMZ being one of the most important funding sources: In the framework of the Partnership Programme, SEQUA supports the cooperation between German business organizations and their partners in developing and transformation countries. In this respect business organizations abroad are strengthened in their roles as promoters, providers and coordinators of vocational training. As implementing agency of BMZ's Public Private Partnership Programme, SEQUA supports projects of Western European enterprises which contain components of vocational training, e.g. the establishment of training centres, the provision of training equipment, the development of curricula and the training of trainers.

The Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM) is a human resources provider with a development policy mandate. CIM places experienced professionals in partner organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, also in the field of vocational training. CIM comes only into place if the expertise cannot be found on the local market.

TVET will also be executed by the KfW Group (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau), the German Development Service (DED), as well as by several NGO's and the church.

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The cooperation between the German government and the partner country starts with an initial meeting in which fields of cooperation and objectives are determined. Usually, these meetings take place once a year, and outcomes are documented in memoranda of understanding. Agreements on concrete projects and programmes referring to this framework require separate agreements. The next step would be the submission proposal by the potential recipient to the German Government. If this submission is considered to be in line with the German development policy, the proposal is passed on to GTZ. GTZ and the partner then review the proposal not only concerning technical feasibility, but also in terms of economic, socio-cultural and ecological sustainability. Often GTZ is also involved in the partner country's preparation of projects and programs. An agreement of project implementation between the German and the partner government is stated in form of a contract. Then BMZ hires GTZ to assist in the project/ program implementation.

• GTZ, "A Project is Born", Schotten 2002 (AS-Druck + Verlag): this leaflet describes the steps to realize a development project/ program in cooperation with BMZ and GTZ.
• "Objectives-oriented project planning" [PDF -1419 KB], GTZ's tool to plan project preparation and implementation.

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BMZ conducts instrument, project, sector and topic evaluations: http://www.bmz.de > English > Topics > Summaries of Evaluation reports.

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Offices worldwide: http://www.gtz.de > English > Offices.

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