GERMAN TECHNICAL COOPERATION
WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL



INTRODUCTION

GTZ-Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Techni-sche Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, German Technical Cooperation, with its Head Office in Eschborn, Germany, was established in 1974. The company is owned by the German Federal Government and its mandate is to undertake specialist planning and implementation of technical cooperation measures with partner countries.

GTZ is a service organization with the legal status of a private limited company (GmbH) under German law, the Federal Republic of Germany being the sole shareholder. In line with its Articles Association, the GTZ undertakes commissions from the German Federal Government, partner country governments and also from international financing institutions and clients involved in cooperation for development.

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OBJECTIVE

German Technical Cooperation serves the prime goal of improving people's livelihood basis and stabilizing the earth's natural carrying capacity. GTZ's corporate mission is to assist economics and people in mobilizing knowledge and skills, in strengthening people's self-help capacities, and establishing the general economic and social conditions they need to create an environment conducive to progress. The core aim of support is to help raise people's own capacity for initiative and self-help.

ORGANIZATION

The activities implemented to support the partner's projects combine sectoral expertise available in Germany and other countries abroad and in the region with traditional local know-how and experience, to obtain an optimal solution to country and region-specific problems. More than 170 in-house sector specialists in over 40 specific sector areas join with about 1600 field staff expatriates, some 5000 locally employed staff and numerous local consultants and consultancy companies in about 135 countries to form a high-performance pool of professionals and management staff with global experience. This ensures that project assistance is appropriate to the social and economic frame-work in the given country.

PARTNERS

GTZ sees itself as one link in a chain of partnership, made up of clients and funding organizations, project-country implementing organizations, other cooperating institutions, and suppliers. These partners often have different interests. GTZ is committed to making

the interests transparent and combining them into a viable compromise in each case. Commonly defined goals and full participation of all affected and involved people and institutions are major elements for success.

GTZ is closely cooperating with the Credit Bank for Reconstruction (KfW) in Frankfurt/Main, who is commissioned by the German Federal Government to plan and implement projects of financial cooperation (loans and grants). The German Development Service (DED) is another important cooperation partner of GTZ.

OPERATION

In Nepal GTZ can look back on more than twenty years experience in planning and executing Technical Cooperation projects and programs on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, jointly with Nepalese partners. Measures have been implemented in numerous sectors in the past including agriculture, livestock, forestry, energy, industry, infrastructure, health, education, and apprenticeship training.

Given the high rate of poverty, the magnitude of economic, social, and ecological problems facing Nepal now, the main agenda of German Technical Cooperation with His Majesty's Government is poverty alleviation, thereby focusing joint efforts on:

The various projects and programs, ongoing and under preparation, are listed in the sectoral overview as shown in the chart behind. Major emphasis and criteria of support is given to:

Detailed information about the various projects can be received from the GTZ-Office or the GTZ project support units. For financial cooperation, FRG is commissioning KfW. There is close cooperation between KfW and GTZ in the Town Development Fund. In the field of Primary Health Care, a joint appraisal of KfW and GTZ is planned regarding possible collaboration.

GTZ-OFFICE IN NEPAL

The GTZ-Office in Nepal is assigned by the GTZ-Head office to function as liaison to the German Embassy, to the various Nepalese partner institutions, and to the international bilateral and multilateral donor community. It is supporting the preparation of new projects, assists the ongoing projects in financial, administrative and logistic matters, manages the implementation of projects (German contribution) without GTZ-team leader and facilitates the networking amongst the GTZ-supported projects in Nepal. In order to keep the inputs for the projects economical and to promote the project outputs and objectives to become viable, the GTZ-Office is fostering one of the major objectives of technical cooperation that local resources and know-how are used by the project management to the best extent. Further details on GTZ can be received from the GTZ-Office in Nepal.

ADDRESSES OF GTZ OFFICE AND PROJECT OFFICES

GTZ-Office, P.O. Box 1457
Kathmandu, Nepal. Ph: 523228, 29, 30, 31
Fax: 521982. E-mail: gtz@pas.Mos.Com.np

Churia Forestry Development Project
Lahan. Ph: 033-60412

Food for Work
Pulchowk. Ph: 521419

NGO Fund
Pulchowk. Ph: 535693

Primary Health Care Project
Teku. Ph: 230304

Promotion of Livestock Breeding Project
Harihar Bhawan. Ph: 525478, 79

Regional Rural Development Program
Pulchowk. Ph: 526454

Small Business Promotion Project
Tripureswor. Ph: 240469, 240239

Small Farmer's Development Project
Pulchowk. Ph: 526455

Snow Glacier Hydrology Project
Ph: 226374

Small Hydropower Master Plan Project GTZ-Office

Seed Production Marketing Project GTZ-Office

Urban Development Through Local Efforts
New Baneswor. Ph: 48237

GTZ Head-Office
Director: Roland Wittur
Deputy Director: Renate Sherpa
Program Officer: Manfred Bach
Procurement Officer: Mirka Shresthova

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