Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Monitor Development finance: New confidence in emerging markets WHO Commission: patents harm health Increasing arms expenditure Too early to lift Liberia embargo, says NGO Somalia: Mogadishu’s new rulers GTZ gets more business from abroad What the UN wants the world to know more about Drug eradication: The limits of „alternative development“ 07/2006		GTZ gets more business from abroad Assignments from international donors are becoming a central pillar of German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). Last year, contracts with foreign governments and international organisations made up almost 21% of the company’s total turnover of ¤875.7 million. Five years ago, the respective share was only of around ten percent. The volume of all new foreign contracts went up to 451 million last year, roughly twice the amount achieved in 2004. Just under half of this sum is allotted to a single contract from Ethiopia, where the GTZ is building 13 universities on behalf of the government. The cofinanced revenue, which includes contributions from other international donors to German projects, increased significantly from ¤17.4 million to ¤47 million. The UN Refugee Agency contributed over ¤22 million alone. Altogether, the GTZ had some ¤778 million at its disposal for non-profit tasks last year, 12.4% more than in 2004. Contributions from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) rose by 6.4% to ¤666.6 million. The greatest portion went on emergency aid and reconstruction measures after the tsunami. In contrast, funding for bilateral technical cooperation decreased by 15.8%. (ell)