For GTZ’s staff members, ethical conduct in their day-to-day dealings with one another as well as with business and project partners is of great importance.

We are fully aware that the major preconditions for the success of our company are not only the price and quality of the services we provide, but also our good reputation and our integrity. Integrity is rooted in the company’s philosophy and is of personal significance to all staff. Our Code of Conduct comprises rules on how to deal with conflicts of interest and to avoid corruption.

The message we send out is that rather than seeing corruption as a necessary evil or a by-product of work processes, we are strongly committed to fighting it. The best way to combat corruption has always been to bring it out into the public.

Everyone engaged in the fight against corruption must help to uncover corruption in every shape and form.

All project partners, clients, the public, and GTZ employees  can contact GTZ’s Integrity Advisor if

• you have questions on ethical conduct in general and our Code of Conduct in particular 
• you have reason to suspect that GTZ’s Code of Conduct has been infringed.

The Integrity Advisor

• reports directly to the Managing Director
• is neutral, independent, and not subject to any directives 
• acts as a point of contact for all staff, our business and project partners, and members of the public.

GTZ Integrity Advisor is
Dr Detlev Böttcher
Tel. +49 6196 793316
Fax: +49 6196 / 79-80-3316
E-mail: integrity-mailbox@giz.de 

In addition, you can contact our external Ombudsman Björn Rohde-Liebenau (lawyer).
Email: ombuds@risk-communication.de; tel: +49 800-OMBUDS1 or +49 40-2266 0 6620.

Code of Conduct for Download:

• Grundsätze integeren Verhaltens
  de-integritaet.pdf, 0.06 MB (German)
• Code of Conduct
  en-integritaet.pdf, 0.06 MB (English)
• Principios de conducta íntegra
  es-integritaet.pdf, 0.05 MB (español)
• Princípios de Conduta Íntegra
  pt-integritaet.pdf, 0.06 MB (portugués)
• Code d’intégrité
  fr-integritaet.pdf, 0.09 MB (francais)
• Code of conduct (russian version)
  ru-integritaet.pdf, 0.10 MB (russian)
• Code of conduct (chinese version)
  zh-integritaet.pdf, 0.46 MB (chinese)
• Code of conduct (arab version)
  ar-integritaet.pdf, 0.09 MB (arab)

Downloads

• Integrity management at GTZ
  de-Integritaetsmanagement-in-der-GTZ.pdf, 0.07 MB (German)
  en-Integritaetsmanagement-in-der-GTZ.pdf, 0.07 MB (English)
  fr-Integritaetsmanagement-in-der-GTZ.pdf, 0.08 MB (francais)
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