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Security Overcoming Conflict, Fragility and Violence ISSUE 03/13 The GIZ Magazine Security Overcoming conflict, fragility and violence OTHER toPICS: Creating transparency: Road building in Costa Rica Casting nets: Mauritania capitalises on its abundance of fish. INHALTCONTENTS SECURITY: Conflict, crime, fragile political stability – lack of security has TRAINING: Using experts to boost many causes. 30 the economy in Laos IN THE SPOTLIGHT OPINION 8 Transparency is a must 26 Reality is at home Costa Rica is upgrading its road network TV journalist Hans-Ulrich Gack talks ); ); T F thanks to a major loan. GIZ is providing about security challenges in Afghanistan. LE the country with advice on handling OP (3 T loans. MO COMMITMENT I HOMAS 30 A seamless transition ); T IN FOCUS Laos is training experts in order to RIGHT 12 Security ensure that its economy is integrated OP with other countries in the region. (2 T Overcoming conflict, fragility ontag COMPANY PROFILE and violence M 34 Gold from the sea ASCHA ); S The Deutsche Gesellschaft für In focus: Security above all else – Mauritania evokes images of desert T F LE Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) sustainable development requires a rather than sea. Yet the country has GmbH offers sustainable and secure framework. abundant fishing grounds, which should OP ) (2 T effective solutions for political, Interview: ‘Networked security’ in now be managed sustainably. MAM RIGHT I economic and social change operation in Afghanistan (3 USSAIN processes. GIZ is a federal enter- Overview: Examples of GIZ’s work 38 A shared responsibility H IR prise that employs more than Facts and figures: International security Emerging economy Mexico funds BB HORMAEHLEN HA 16,000 staff members and operates development projects in other countries T : GIZ/S in over 130 countries worldwide. in the region and pursues new approaches ARSTEN hotos GIZ/K to cooperation with Germany. P www.giz.de/en 2 akzente 03/2013 EDITORIAL DEAR READER, People in countries like Germany can generally be confi- dent about guaranteeing security for their own daily needs. We take our cars to be inspected, install smoke detectors in our homes, put security locks on our doors and take out fire insurance. A properly functioning civil society, trustworthy law enforcement officers and an -in dependent judiciary take care of everything else. But for those living in regions of the world plagued by conflict and violence, things can be very different: the threats are too close to home and too omnipresent for people there to feel secure. In circumstances such as these, citizens first have to completely rebuild confidence in the state, its institutions and its security forces. The familiar cycles of conflict resolution through violence have to be bro- ken. This is the focus of this issue’s editorial article, which sets out to describe the underlying framework and offer real insights into the situation in Afghanistan and in the Democratic FISHERIES: Mauritania is Republic of the Congo. 34 exploiting its abundance of fish. Costa Rica is improving its road network, thanks to substantial guaranteed loans from the Inter-American Development Bank. This credit is conditional upon a transparent distribu- tion of funding and participation of the local population in planning and decision-making processes. But that is certainly no easy task, given the fragmentation and scope of the whole BACKGROUND undertaking. The Government of Costa Rica commissioned GIZ to provide advisory 42 Minimising risk servic es. akzente visited the country’s Ministry of Transport and spoke to those who are set Security and risk management at GIZ ); ); to ben efit from the new transport links. T F LE OP Other articles take us to Laos, which must meet the demands of an integrated ASEAN eco- (3 T INTRODUCING MO nomic area by 2015, to Mauritania, where the abundance of fish is attracting the interest of I 46 Yann Le Beux, business foreign trawlers and simultaneously generating income for the local population, and to the HOMAS ); T start-up advisor emerging economy of Mexico, which is gradually making a successful transition from a one- RIGHT time recipient of development aid to donor country. OP (2 T OTHER SECTIONS I hope you find this issue both interesting and informative. ontag In brief: news from around the world 4 M 28 Through the lens: not just a game ASCHA ); S 44 Info: recommended reading, films T F LE and events OP 47 Authors and photographers featured in ) Dorothee Hutter (2 T MAM this issue, Preview Director of Corporate Communications RIGHT I (3 USSAIN H IR BB HORMAEHLEN HA T : GIZ/S ARSTEN hotos GIZ/K P akzente 03/2013 3 IN BRIEF Agreement with the Islamic Development Bank the Arab world, in sub-Saharan Africa and in Central Asia, and to develop joint strategic approaches. With an annual turnover of USD 9 billion, the supranational bank awards loans, as well as grants to finance infrastructure and aid projects. It is funded by 56 of the Or- ganisation of Islamic Cooperation’s member states. The recently signed agreement with GIZ lists priority fields of cooperation as microfi- nancing, youth employment, vocational educa- tion, energy and water. GIZ already has extensive experience working with other Arab donors. For many years GIZ International Services has imple- mented water projects in several African coun- tries on behalf of the Saudi Fund for Develop- ment. Since 2009, BMZ has been financing a re- Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al-Madani and Tanja Gönner sign the Memorandum of Understanding. gional programme to recruit Arab donors to co-finance ongoing German projects and pro- COOPERATION The President of the Islamic De- opens the way for combined financing and di- grammes. This approach has already proved suc- velopment Bank, Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al- rect commissions to GIZ. The agreement un- cessful with projects to combat violence to- Madani, and Tanja Gönner, Chair of the GIZ derlines the wish of both organisations to en- wards women in Yemen and to improve access Management Board, signed a Memorandum of gage in a deeper professional exchange of infor- to financial products for young people in Egypt Understanding in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which mation on social and economic development in and Morocco. Minister Aigner opens training centre ETHIOPIA In May, German Federal Minister Ilse Ababa, where GIZ is providing advanced train- ) 9,000 Aigner opened an agricultural training centre ing for agricultural experts on behalf of the Ger- M near Asella, 170 kilometres south-east of Addis man Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and (5 BOTTO GIZ and the pharmaceutical company Consumer Protection (BMELV). Agriculture is Z Merck have been cooperating for the last ); GI the most important sector in Ethiopia’s econ- M three years on a project to dispose of lab- omy. Modern agricultural technology is the ex- oratory waste in Indonesia, Thailand and ception rather than the rule however. There is a the Philippines in an environmentally general lack of business administration skills, friendly manner. (4 BOTTO STIFANOS and productivity is low. Consequently, classes at E ON the centre cover crop rotation, crop protection, R Overall, 9,000 people have been trained, ); ME irrigation and the sustainable use of resources, P 230 tonnes of chemicals disposed of (4 TO appropriately, and a bottle cleaning as well as general business training, business R facility for 150 companies has been management and marketing for example. Those built at the industrial park in Jakarta. present at the opening ceremony in addition to The project is part of the BMZ’s Minister Aigner included GIZ Managing Di- develoPPP.de programme. rector Cornelia Richter and representatives of Ilse Aigner in Ethiopia German agricultural machinery companies. ROLAND ZIELBAUE PHOTOS: 4 akzente 03/2013 > NEW PROJECTS > BANGLADESH Building hospitals Fire SafeTY ALLiance LIBYA The private investor Peaktrade A growing number of companies have Holdings Ltd. Benghazi has commis- signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety sioned GIZ International Services to in Bangladesh. build, equip and manage a hospital. The contract will run until 2019. Construc- tion was interrupted by the Libyan Following the collapse of a building that housed a garment factory in Bangladesh on revolution. With increasing demand for 24 April 2013, a disaster that resulted in the loss of well over 1,000 lives, a growing the combined construction and man- number of companies have signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. agement of hospitals, GIZ International This is a key step towards the adoption of a sector-wide approach to improving fire and Services is able to draw on previous building safety in the textiles industry in Bangladesh. experience in Ethiopia. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ is to help survivors of the disaster, many of whom were left seriously injured Statistical advice and traumatised, by providing both medical assistance and introducing plans to secure individual livelihoods. AFGHANISTAN With funding from the World Bank, GIZ has been advising Since 2005, GIZ has supported over 2,000 enterprises and a total of 1.5 million employees ­Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Or- on behalf of BMZ and the European Union in Bangladesh. In 2011 and 2012 alone, ganization on capacity building and 350 garment factories significantly improved their social and environmental standards, and organisational development. Statis- 170 factories are now certified to at least one international labour standard. tical information in Afghanistan was previously incomplete and unreliable, and collecting official data has proved a challenge. But GIZ is now work- ing with its ­Afghan partners to en- sure that processes run efficiently and Africa at the heart of re:publica to establish a dialogue between those who publish statistics and those who BERLIN With over 5,000 participants, use them.
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