A delegation of the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) will visit ECOWAS on the 5th March 2013. The delegation consists of four members of the Parliament’s group for relations with English and Portuguese speaking West African countries.
The delegation will discuss with the ECOWAS leaders several subjects among them, the development of the economic integration of West African States.
Germany and ECOWAS maintain good relations of cooperation through the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). GIZ operates in more than 130 countries, employs approximately 17,000 people and has a budget of nearly $ 2 billion.
GIZ is an experienced service provider and assist the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation. GIZ offers demand-driven, tailor-made and effective services for sustainable development.
The GIZ provides services in the following areas of sustainable development:
– Economic Development and Employment (including services such as
vocational training, economic policy advice, financial systems development
or private sector promotion);
– Government, Democracy and Poverty Reduction (including services and
working fields such as development-oriented emergency aid, peace building
and crisis prevention, governance, sustainable urban development or
structural poverty reduction);
– Education, Health and Social Security (including working fields such
as education, development-oriented drug control, promotion of children and
young people or HIV/AIDS prevention);
– Environment and Infrastructure (including activities such as waste,
energy and water management, natural resource management, transport and
mobility, implementing international environmental regimes or
environmental policy, climate change-related capacity building);
– Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (including services such as coastal
zone management, land management, market-oriented farming and food
systems, policy advice on agriculture and rural development or securing
livelihoods in rural areas).