Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, the German Society for International Cooperation
German development cooperation is being implemented by GIZ(technical cooperation) and KfW(financial cooperation) on behalf of the German government.
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TheDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) launched the CINEMA fairbindet award (a play on words in German that roughly translates as ‘cinema connects fairly’) on behalf of Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2011.
As of 2012, GIZ has about 16,229 employees working in more than 130 countries, including about 1,900 at its head offices in Eschborn (near Frankfurt am Main) and Bonn.
The moving average rate procedure has been developed in the 80s on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to properly account for the funds made available to the public implementing agency GIZ.
PEGNet was founded in 2005 as a joint initiative of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), its implementing agencies GIZ and KfW Entwicklungsbank as well as the universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt.
For example, the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C) was initiated by an alliance of main coffee roasters, including Kraft Foods, Sara Lee and Nestle, assisted by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (GIZ).