Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Working together for change
As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector and governments of other countries.
We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Working together for change
As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector and governments of other countries.
We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The commissioning parties and cooperation partners all place their trust in GIZ, and we work with them to generate ideas for political, social and economic change, to develop these into concrete plans and to implement them. Since we are a public-benefit federal enterprise, German and European values are central to our work. Together with our partners in national governments worldwide and cooperation partners from the worlds of business, research and civil society, we work flexibly to deliver effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions.
The registered offices of GIZ are in Bonn and Eschborn. In 2019, we generated a business volume of around EUR 3.1 billion. Our 22,199 employees, almost 70 per cent of whom are national staff, work in around 120 countries. As a recognised development service provider, we currently have 556 development workers in action in partner countries. Furthermore, in 2019, the Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), which is run jointly by GIZ and the German Federal Employment Agency, placed 262 integrated experts and 515 returning experts with local employers in our partner countries, or provided them with financial support, advice or other services.
German international cooperation with the Republic of Serbia began immediately after the country’s democratic transition in the year 2000. Since then GIZ has maintained a County Office in Belgrade and several Project Offices. Today, there are 156 people working for GIZ in Serbia, 30 of whom are seconded staff and 126 national personnel. There are additionally 10 CIM experts working in Serbian partner institutions.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ supports Serbia’s efforts to achieve convergence with the EU, to strengthen economic performance and to consolidate democratic structures.
To this end we are implementing programmes and projects in the following priority areas:
- Sustainable Economic Development and Employment
- Good Governance
- Environment
Serbia also benefits from GIZ projects at the regional level. The Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe supports activities in the fields of legal reform, foreign trade advisory services, modernisation of municipal services, energy efficiency, biodiversity and EU integration.
Projects in Serbia
- Rural development through integrated forest and water resources management in Southeast Europe
- Waste management, circular economy and green job opportunities
- Energy efficiency in public buildings
- Development of a sustainable bioenergy market
- Social rights for vulnerable groups
- Public administration reform
- Social services for disadvantaged population groups
- Promotion of EU Integration in the Western Balkans
- Open regional funds for South-East Europe – legal reform
- Open regional funds for South-East Europe – modernisation of municipal services
- Public finance reform
- Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Biodiversity
- Open regional funds for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency
- Economic Diversification of Rural Areas
- Zoran Djindjic Internship Programme of German Business for the Countries of the Western Balkans
- Programme “Migration for Development”
- Private sector development in disadvantaged regions
- Sustainable recruitment of nurses
- Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Foreign Trade
- Western Balkans School Exchange Scheme
- Dialogue on Employment Creation, Initiative and Dual Education
- Supporting young people in rural regions of Serbia
- Strengthening Rule of Law in Serbia (giz.de)
For an overview of GIZ projects in Serbia, please visit giz.de.