50 years of Pakistan-German development cooperation
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Development cooperation between Pakistan and Germany goes back to 1961, with the funding volume to date totalling some EUR 2.3 billion. Pakistan was thus one of Germany's first partner countries.
The regional focus of cooperation has traditionally been the north-west of the country. Germany is one of the few donors that has its own implementing structures in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is one of the few partners of Pakistan carrying out measures in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Individual measures are also being implemented in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Punjab and Sindh.
Funding was initially provided to the energy, industrial, transport and telecommunications sectors. Today, the priority areas of Pakistan-German development cooperation are good governance, energy, health and education including basic education as well as technical and vocational training.
In addition, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supports Pakistan with refugee aid and in coping with natural disasters, most recently following the floods in 2010. These are known as development-oriented emergency and transitional aid measures. Equally, activities aimed at addressing the root causes of the crisis that led to military operations, are being implemented through substantive contributions to the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) and bilateral projects in the Malakand Division.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is involved in institution-building, deploying experts and knowledge transfer on behalf of BMZ. Financial cooperation is carried out by the KfW Entwicklungsbank. Furthermore, German Government funding is accorded to faith-based organisations, political foundations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which make important contributions to promoting democracy and human rights, developing rule of law and providing emergency relief, among other things.
Impacts of 50 years of Pakistan-German Development Cooperation at a glance:
Development cooperation between Pakistan and Germany in the priority area of energy began back in the 1960s.
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Pakistan-German cooperation in the field of education aims to improve the institutional environment in the education sector and to increase the quality of education in the long term.
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Germany has been supporting Pakistan since the 1980s in building capacities in the health system.
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In recent years the Pakistan government has introduced reforms to strengthen democratic structures, the focus being on administrative and tax reforms.
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German Financial Cooperation (KfW)
The KfW is the development bank of the Federal Republic of Germany and its and Federal states.
To reduce poverty, protect the climate, ensure peace and organise globalisation in such a way that those living in the world's poorer regions will benefit, too - by the year 2015 the international community wants to be a few steps closer to reaching these goals.
In practice, this means: food security and basic education for all, healthy economic growth that does not occur at the expense of the environment, reliable energy supply that helps preserve the climate, and financial services that are available to all and enable people to escape from poverty. As a development bank, KfW works on behalf of the German Government towards attaining these goals.
KfW in Pakistan
German Investment and Development Company (DEG)
DEG, member of KfW Bankengruppe (KfW banking group), finances investments of private companies in developing and transition countries. As one of Europe's largest development finance institutions, it promotes private business structures to contribute to sustainable economic growth and improved living conditions. DEG is currently financing six projects in Pakistan with a total of € 22.4 million. Its involvement covers areas as diverse as the construction of power plants, the establishment of a container terminal, textile production, building materials, hotel business, and the financing of a development bank.
DEG
The Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM)
CIM is the human resources placement organisation for German Development Cooperation which places managers and technical experts in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern and South Eastern Europe, and supports them with services and with subsidies to top up their local salaries.
CIM partners are competent, independent employers within our partner countries’ civil services, private sectors and civil societies which can request CIM to place Integrated Experts within an institution or enterprise in a partner country. CIM experts are "integrated" in that they are legally and professionally answerable to a local partner employer, with whom they enter into a contract of employment in line with local terms and conditions.
Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM)
German political foundations
Five political foundations are active in the field of development cooperation as well:
