About us

Who we are

Inwent – Qualified to shape the future

Inwent –Capacity Building International, Germany, is active worldwide in human resource development, advanced training and dialogue. Inwent works together with people in key positions, assisting them in shaping processes of change in their own countries. Our capacity building programmes are designed for experts and executives from politics, administrations, the business community and civil society. Inwent qualifies people to pass on their knowledge to others and effect long term structural changes. Our objective is to shape globalisation fairly and encourage sustainable development.

Our clients

As an organisation of international cooperation Inwent makes an important contribution to fair and sustainable development on behalf of the federal government and the federal states and in cooperation with the German business community.
60 percent of all our programmes are commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). We are also work for other federal ministries. Our international clients include the European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organisation, and the United Nations.

Our range

The programmes are especially tailored to meet the needs of our partners in developing, transition, and industrialised countries. Inwent offers job-specific and practice-oriented continuing education and training programmes, dialogue events and online courses on our Global Campus 21® e-learning platform. Our active alumni network allows participants to continue dialogue both with each other and with Inwent.

Inwent advises the German business community on its commitment to developing and transition countries. We promote public private partnership projects that unify economic, social and ecological objectives.

Inwent also prepares international cooperation experts for a stay abroad. We offer young people from Germany the chance to gather work experience worldwide via exchange programmes and help them find scholarships.

Inwent on location

Inwent’s main headquarters are in Bonn. We have 14 regional centres throughout the Federal Republic of Germany, making us accessible in every region. We are represented by offices in Dar es Salaam, Hanoi, Cairo, Kiev, Lima, Managua, Manila, Moscow, New Delhi, Peking, Pretoria and São Paulo, primarily in partnership with other German development cooperation organisations.