Germany merges technical cooperation services into the GIZ

The German federal government has launched a new agency for technical cooperation. At the start of 2011, the new ‘‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit” (German Agency for International Cooperation) will take up its work. This agency, called GIZ, will be created by merging the three government organisations of GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), DED…