What GIZ offers as an
implementing partner
Capacity development has been one of GIZ’s core
tasks for more than 30 years. As an implementing
organisation of the German Government, we advise
people and organisations around the world on the
processes of learning and of change. Thanks to
many years of working both in and with emerging
economies and developing countries, as well as with
international organisations, GIZ enjoys trust and has
contacts at every level – national, regional and global. Our extensive networks are a key to the success
of our projects, while our global presence enables
us to promote South-South and triangular cooperation and act as a bridge-builder. Our knowledge
of more than 130 countries worldwide means that
we are well placed to use the technical expertise
we have acquired in a wide range of country contexts. Furthermore, we provide German know-how
and technology through our strategic alliances with
German businesses and universities.
Our work is quality-oriented, complying with internationally-agreed standards for development
cooperation. We coordinate projects efficiently and
keep transaction costs low. In trilateral projects, we
place great emphasis on the ownership of all parties
as well as on our own participatory approach to
management.
Triangular cooperation
Complementary partnerships and knowledge sharing
for successful solutions
Contact
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
E-Mail: SSC-TrC @giz.de
Internet: www.giz.de/global-agendas
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Registered offices
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South-South partnerships
and triangular cooperation
Over the past ten years, trade, investment and development cooperation between emerging economies
and developing countries have grown rapidly. Many
emerging economies are themselves acting as donors,
while German development cooperation is becoming
increasingly involved in South-South and triangular
cooperation.
Triangular or trilateral cooperation is an effective
international cooperation tool for promoting knowledge sharing. One or more emerging, developing and
industrialised countries respectively work together
to transfer successful solutions developed in one
country to a partner country and adapt them to the
specific challenges encountered there. All sides make
complementary technical and financial contributions,
introducing their comparative advantages, thus
generating synergies. Germany’s main contribution is
its comprehensive sector-specific and methodological
expertise in international cooperation. Meanwhile,
all parties learn from each other.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has long experience of trilateral
cooperation and has been implementing such arrangements successfully for many years with development
partners that include Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa,
Tanzania, Thailand and Turkey.
TRIANGULAR
cooperation
in practice
How to go into
trilateral cooperation
agreements with GIZ
On behalf of the German Government, GIZ supports
trilateral projects in a range of sectors.
Trilateral cooperation arrangements with GIZ can
involve a range of groups of actors and take many
different forms. Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has entered
into framework agreements on triangular cooperation
with some countries and set up dedicated funds, as is
the case, for example, with Brazil and South Africa.
GIZ coordinates these funds and implements the
individual projects. In other cases, a series of projects
grow out of North-South or South-South partnerships.
Emerging economies and developing countries can also
directly commission GIZ to participate in trilateral
projects or to help implement their strategies for
South-South cooperation.
In Bolivia, for example, partners from Mexico and
Germany are advising the Bolivian Ministry of the
Environment and Water on using its water resources more efficiently and developing water recycling
systems. Mexico can offer recent relevant experience:
in 2004, with support from Germany, it updated and
modernised its own water legislation to improve its
water resources management. GIZ, meanwhile, offers
complementary methodological and technical expertise.
In another example, triangular cooperation between
Tanzania, South Africa and Germany is working to
reduce the negative impact of uncontrolled forest and
bush fires in Tanzania. South Africa has extensive
experience of integrated fire management, which it is
making available to the project through the Working
on Fire programme of the South African Department
of Environmental Affairs. The project partners are
cooperating to develop joint training arrangements
for community-based fire management and are establishing a regional fire management information and
monitoring centre, managed by South Africa. At the
same time, South African experts and GIZ are also
advising the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources
and Tourism on developing national fire management
structures.