Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Monitor Challenging guidelines Afghanistan: NGOs adopt code of conduct AIDS drug: Brazil achieves price reduction US Congress slows down Millennium Challenge Account German development budget 2006 Pro-poor growth in practice Military intervention hardly helps G8 summit disappoints NGOs GTZ attracts international funds Generic pharma factory in Kabul New EU trade preferences Privatisation dispute misses the point Scant participation by civil society 8-9/2005		GTZ attracts international funds 2005 may turn out as the year with the highest turnover in the history of German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) so far, says Wolfgang Schmitt, one of the company’s two chief executives. According to its recently published annual report 2004, the government-run development agency had expanded the value of new contracts by a good 14 % last year. Nonetheless, total turnover fell slightly by 0.7 % in 2004. The drop would have been greater, had GTZ International Services not increased its sales by 50%. This is the branch that implements programmes for foreign and international clients including the EU, the World Bank and UN organisations. According to Bernd Eisenblätter, the other chief executive at GTZ, the success of International Services highlights Germany’s good reputation in the field of technical cooperation. Excluding funds raised outside Germany, GTZ had a good ¤ 692 million at its disposal for official development assistance. A quarter of this sum went to Africa, 21 % to Asia and 13 % to Latin America. While all regions suffered decreases, funding for intercontinental programmes increased by almost 11 %. (ell)