The project cooperates with the most important players of German state and non-state development cooperation. Moreover, there are extensive working relationships with national and international specialized organisations as well as with other bi and multilateral donors.
Governmental development cooperation organisations
- The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is the project’s client and at the same time the beneficiary of technical and strategic advice given by the project team. It particularly receives advice concerning the development of political regulatory instruments, such as for example the human rights oriented adaptation of sector or country strategies and the preparation of government negotiations.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH executes the project. At the same time, it assists selected GIZ-programmes in a number of partner countries in the implementation of a human rights-based approach in practice and gives advice to the sector and regional divisions at GIZ in rooting the topic in their structures and working processes. The same holds true for KfW Entwicklungsbank (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau). They receive support as well, through strategic advisory service, technical and training events as well as tailor-made advisory missions for specific programmes in a number of partner countries.
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
- The project entertains a regular exchange with the working group „Human Rights and Development“ of the German NGO-Forum for Human Rights.
- The project participates in the learning process of international NGOs such as FIAN International, Care International or the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) with regard to the issues „Human Rights and Development“. It sponsors technical events that are carried out in cooperation with NGOs with regard to particular topics, for instance the event in cooperation with FIAN „The right to food in the context of foreign investments - a task for the African human rights system“.
National and international specialized institutions
- The German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR) in Berlin assists the project through a sub-contract. It particularly develops practice-oriented tools for daily work, develops and carries out technical trainings and gives technical and strategic advice to the BMZ and its implementing agencies.
- It entertains a regular exchange with the World Health Organisation (WHO) on implementing strategies regarding the right to health and cooperates in the development of practice-oriented instruments.
- The project co-finances action-oriented studies related to human rights, for instance a study by the International Council on Human Rights Policy on „Climate Change and Human Rights“.
Here you will find the study "Climate Change and Human Rights"
OECD-DAC (Development Aid Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Since August 2005, the GIZ (former GTZ) -project participates on behalf of the BMZ as an active member in the OECD-DAC working group on „Human Rights and Development“ which is a working group of the DAC’s Governance Network. The working group holds a regular exchange on the implementation of a human rights-based approach in the most important bi- and multilateral donor organisations. Here, GIZ chairs the sub-working group „Human Rights and Aid Effectiveness“ that published several studies and working papers on practical and content related linkages and synergies between both areas.
