As an emerging economy with the world’s eighth highest GDP, Brazil has a key role to play in addressing the global economic crisis, in international climate negotiations, in implementing the UN conventions on biodiversity and desertification, and in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Brazil and Germany are strategic partners, working together for their mutual interest in tackling global challenges. In the course of 45 years of technical cooperation, a dense network of contacts has developed in business, politics and research. Many of GTZ’s partners in Brazil are major national organisations of international repute, with which, during years of growing mutual understanding and trust, we have developed common positions and established excellent conditions to find new forms of cooperation.

GTZ in Brazil works on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and, through co-financing arrangements, for the Netherlands (DGIS) and the United Kingdom (DFID).  Through technical exchange and cooperation, GTZ aims to ensure ever-closer coordination with the scientific and technical cooperation, the private sector and research institution.

The priority areas of technical cooperation are the protection and sustainable use of tropical rainforests, renewable energies and energy efficiency, and integrated regional development. One of the new forms of cooperation is triangular cooperation, in which GTZ develops projects in other countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa in partnership with Brazilian institutions. For example, Brazil’s experience in the fight against HIV/AIDS is made available to other countries in the region and Africa. Furthermore, a major BMZ regional programme – advising the Permanent Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization – is based in Brazil.

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• Cooperation partners of GTZ Brazil
  de-gtz-brasilien-Kooperationspartner.pdf, 0.06 MB (German)

Further information

• Information about Brazil on the website of the German Foreign Office
  http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/...
• Information about Brazil as a partner country of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  http://www.bmz.de/en/...