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Education for Sustainable Development

United Nations World Decade       2005 - 2014




German Technical Cooperation GmbH

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As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federallyowned German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) GmbH supports the Federal cooperation Government in achieving its development cooperation policy objectives. It provides viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world. Working under difficult conditions, the GTZ promotes complex reforms and processes of change. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.

The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is its major client. The company also operates on behalf of other German ministries, the governments of other countries and international clients, such as the European Commission, the United Nations and the World Bank, and on behalf of private enterprises. The GTZ works on a public-benefit basis.

The GTZ works together with different partners in Germany and abroad towards Education for sustainable development ESD. The main objective is to develop and implement approaches and methods fostering sustainable development based on practical experience in partner countries. These approaches comprise a wide range of activities from policy advice on curriculum reform and teacher training; from the series of brochures “Sustainability has many faces – learning from the South” to exhibitions and films, international youth summits and school programmes as well as school competitions.

Contact:
German Technical Cooperation
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1–5
65760 Eschborn, Germany
phone + 49 6196 79-0
fax + 49 619679-1115

Person to contact:
Dr. Rolf-Peter Mack,
Nikola Dzembritzki
Dorothea Coppard
education@gtz.de
umwelt-klima@gtz.de


http://www.gtz.de


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