The central thrust of Technical Cooperation with Bolivia is to improve the institutional and organisational basis for implementing Bolivian reforms and the poverty reduction policy. After consultation between the German and Bolivian Governments, GTZ’s work is concentrating on the following priority areas:

Administrative and judicial reform, civil society

Programa de Apoyo a la Gestión Pública Descentralizada y Lucha Contra la Pobreza (PADEP) is a programme to support the decentralisation policy and poverty reduction, and operates at the national, departmental and municipal levels. Individual projects also support legal and educational reform.

Sustainable agriculture

The PROAGRO sustainable agriculture programme is active in the fields of watershed management, irrigation, production increase and erosion control, particularly in Bolivian Chaco and the north of Potosi. The goal is to reduce rural poverty and preserve biodiversity.

Water supply and waste water disposal

PROPAC, the programme for drinking water supply and waste water disposal in small and medium-sized towns, supports sustainable water management with four components including sectoral policy and strategy advice and enterprise development to improve the drinking water supply and sanitation.

Sectors of strategic importance are financial ystem development, nature conservation and renewable energies (a working area for Financial Cooperation, handled through the KfW Entwicklungsbank, development bank).

The cross-cutting themes of gender, conflict prevention and management, indigenous peoples and environment protection are taken into account in all working areas.