GTZ is active in 17 countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East region, where it currently employs 231 seconded and 604 national personnel to support its local partners. CIM also places experts with local employers. In 2009, 69 Integrated Experts and 34 Returning Experts were employed in this way.

Apart from the Federal Development Ministry, increasingly GTZ is also working in the region for other federal ministries, including the Federal Environment Ministry. On behalf of the Federal Foreign Office we are supporting several projects under the ‘Future for Palestine’ initiative in the education and culture sectors. These are designed to directly improve the generally difficult living conditions in the Palestinian territories.

GTZ International Services (GTZ IS) is also operating in the region on behalf of national and international organisations – chiefly in the water, vocational training and health sectors, as well as in renewable energies and energy efficiency. The largest client of GTZ IS in the region is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All our projects are united by the vision of a secure and stable region where people are free to shape their own futures. Indispensable for this is sustainable economic growth that benefits all sections of the population. GTZ’s work, built on the company’s expertise and experience in a range of sectors, is helping the region move closer to this goal day by day.

(As of 31 December 2009).

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