GTZ is active in 19 countries in Latin America, where it currently employs 131 seconded and 834 national staff members.

Apart from the Federal Development Ministry (BMZ), it is increasingly operating in the region on behalf of other federal ministries – the Federal Foreign Office in Colombia, for instance, and the Federal Ministry for the Environment in Brazil, Mexico and Chile. International cooperation in the region as a whole is highly dynamic. In countries such as Ecuador and Brazil public-private partnerships are very often the instrument of choice, while in Brazil, Chile and Mexico tripartite cooperation arrangements are gaining ground. And more and more often, other donors are also participating in projects and programmes implemented by GTZ on BMZ’s behalf within the scope of combined financing arrangements, which helps successful projects increase their reach. (As of: 31 December 2008).

Further information on GTZ's work in individual countries: