InWEnt Intensive Training Course in Germany

InWEnt

InWEnt - Capacity Building International, Germany

InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany, stands for the development of human resources and organisations within the framework of development cooperation. InWEnt offers courses that cater to skilled and managerial staff as well as decision makers from business, politics, administrations and civil societies worldwide.

With the education, exchange and dialog programmes for approximately 55,000 persons per year, InWEnt constitutes the largest joint initiative of the German Federal Government, the Länder (German federal states) and the business community. The centre in Bonn and 30 other locations in Germany and abroad employ roughly 850 staff.

The organisation commands a total annual budget of approximately €130 million. The Federal Government is main shareholder and represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which is also the main financial contributor. Approximately 40 percent of the budget is from further commissioning bodies, in particular the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Foreign Office (AA), the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, and, increasingly, the European Union (EU) as well as various further multilateral organisations. Main cooperation partners are the KfW Bankengruppe (KfW banking group), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Technical Cooperation) and private business foundations.

InWEnt was created in 2002 through the merger of Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft e.V. (CDG) and the German Foundation for International Development (DSE). In keeping with the tradition of the predecessor organisations, both Länder (German federal states) and German business are shareholders and thus ensure that InWEnt is firmly anchored in society.

Within its business fields, InWEnt amalgamates the decades of expertise and regional experience contributed by CDG and DSE. The methodological repertoire is structured along broad lines, making it possible to customise modules to fit the specific requirements of customers and tasks and provide appropriate solutions. The employment of new media permits the development and implementation of innovative knowledge management methods, the launching of international virtual learning communities and the promotion of multiplier systems.

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