GTZ is active in 21 countries in Latin America, where 155 seconded and 940 national personnel are currently supporting our national partners. CIM also places experts with local employers. In 2009, 145 Integrated Experts and 29 Returning Experts were employed in this way.

As well as working for the Federal Development Ministry, we are also increasingly operating in the region on behalf of other clients. These include the Federal Environment Ministry, on whose behalf we are promoting species protection and sustainable natural resource management in conservation areas in Mexico.

Through GTZ International Services we are also working on behalf of national governments and international organisations such as the EU, for instance in the fields of economic and trade promotion, and environmentally sound natural resource management. Overall the topics of environment, public financial management and the rule of law are moving higher up the agenda. GTZ’s networking services are playing an increasingly important role. First of all they are fostering effective cooperation between countries. Secondly, they are helping projects and programmes link up even more systematically with political foundations and the private sector, enabling crucial progress to be made in achieving joint objectives.

(As of: 31 December 2009).

Further information on GTZ's work in individual countries: