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BMZ budget 2004

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GTZ's annual report: income growth

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KfW annual report: lending commitments reduced

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Cooperation with Namibia


8-9/2003
  

[ GTZ's annual report: income growth ]

Up again after a dip in 2001, GTZ income from the development ministry (BMZ) budget last year rose from a good 706 million to 743 million euros. As GTZ managing director Wolfgang Schmitt confirmed at the presentation of the GTZ Annual Report for 2002 on June 11 in Frankfurt, that increase was largely due to funds from the '2015 Action Programme' and the immediate action programme against terrorism. In the public-benefit sector of GTZ operations, an increasingly important role is played by commissions from other public clients, such as other federal ministries. Revenues from such sources rose by a good 38 percent to 54.4 million euros in 2002 and the volume of new contracts actually doubled to more than 68 million euros, although the lion's share of this income related to two major contracts for the Federal Finance Ministry and the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The volume of new commissions funded from the BMZ's budget allocation for Technical Cooperation, however, decreased by 14 percent. Revenues for GTZ International Services (formerly called ‘Technical Cooperation for International Clients’) grew from just under 98 million to more than 106 million euros in the year under review; commissions received in this sector climbed steeply by 44 percent to over 170 million euros.

According to GTZ managing director Bernd Eisenblätter, security is becoming an increasingly important area of GTZ activities. And that is regrettable, he added, because it shows that the security situation in many partner countries is deteriorating. Other major developments noted by Eisenblätter last year include the introduction of a new commissioning procedure at BMZ giving GTZ considerably more scope for deciding how project funds should be used, and the start of trials on a new evaluation procedure. (ell)