InWEnt – Capacity Building International

InWEnt is a non-profit organisation with worldwide operations dedicated to human resource development, advanced training, and dialogue. Its capacity building programmes are directed at experts and executives from politics, administration, the business community, and civil society. InWEnt is an implementing agency of the German Government - 60 percent of all programmes are implemented at the request of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

In addition, InWEnt conducts programmes for other German federal ministries and international organisations. InWEnt is also working in cooperation with the German business sector in public private partnership projects that can be designed to incorporate economic, social, and environmental goals.

The programmes for people from developing, transition and industrialised countries are tailored to meet the specific needs of our partners. We offer practice-oriented advanced education and training, dialogue sessions, and e-learning courses. For this purpose InWEnt has created an e-learning platform called the Global Campus 21 (http://www.gc21.inwent.org). In partnership with various German organisations the Alumniportal Deutschland (http://www.alumniportal-deutschland.org) has recently been launched. It offers everyone who has worked or studied in Germany an opportunity to network. After the training programmes, our participants continue their dialogue with each other and with InWEnt via active alumni networks.

By offering exchange programmes and arranging scholarship programmes, InWEnt also provides young people from Germany with the opportunity to gain professional experience abroad.

InWEnt gGmbH is headquartered in Bonn. In addition, InWEnt maintains fourteen Regional Centres throughout the German Länder, providing convenient points of contact for all regions. InWEnt is represented in South Africa through its SADC Regional Office in Pretoria. Other foreign operations are in Beijing, Cairo, Hanoi, Kiev, Lima, Managua, Manila, Moscow, New Delhi, São Paulo, and Dar es Salaam.

In South Africa, InWEnt supports the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy (PALAMA) to develop from a training provider to the training facilitator for public administration in South Africa. InWEnt is assisting PALAMA to develop a joint capacity building programme especially in the e-learning field as of 2009/2010 tailor-made to meet PALAMA’s future challenges.

InWEnt is cooperating with DED and GTZ in the Civil Society Support Program (CSSP). In 2009 NGO trainers will be trained in Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape. Under the guidance of DPLG, InWEnt developed a Local Economic Development (LED) training programme directed at LED practitioners and municipal officials in South Africa.

InWEnt is providing support to SMEs with the development of HIV/Aids workplace programmes (in cooperation with DED). Further training and e-learning programmes address the prevention of the epidemic and its impacts on the education and the health sector.

Within a public-private-partnership programme InWEnt is supporting the development of a small-scale bio-fuel pilot plant, the implementation of a bio-fuel competence centre as well as networking between participants. InWEnt contributes with capacity building, further training and dialogue measures.

The programme Managing Global Governance (www.gc21.de/mgg) is a 5-6 month exchange and learning opportunity in Germany and Europe for participants from Brazil, China, Egypt, Mexico, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Germany/Europe. The programme encourages networking and joint learning processes among highly qualified young professionals of government ministries, independent think tanks and research institutions.

Since no country can cope with the complexity of need for action and policy by itself facing global challenges of governance, climate change and financial stability, InWEnt offers programmes of international and cross-sectoral dialogue, exchange and mutual learning between the emerging powers Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa (plus in one case Indonesia and Egypt) and Germany/Europe.