The German Organisation for Technical Cooperation promotes decentralised public and private structures and assists the population in securing a livelihood. In a series of regional Round Tables, it is devoting itself in cooperation with the Goethe Institute to the question of the influence cultural factors bear on development, how development cooperation can itself influence the culture of partner countries, and whether or not a cultural or systemic change that is instigated from outside is even desirable in the first place.

Once a year it has organised a major annual exhibition of contemporary art, including paintings, drawings, prints, photography and sculpture. All the works on display are by artists living in countries where GTZ operates.

In the region Maghreb and Middle East the German Organisation for Technical Cooperation is activ in several countries, there, for example, it supervises the following projects:

Poetry and modern communication in Mauretanien.

In the region Europe, Caucasus and Central Asie the German Organisation for Technical Cooperation is activ in several countries, there, for example, it supervises the following projects:

Mainstreaming human rights in Afghanistan,

Looking for clues to a cultural home in Russia.

In the region Latin America and Caribbean the German Organisation for Technical Cooperation is activ in several countries, there, for example, it supervises the following projects:

Indigenous Intercultural University in Latin America,

Educational reform – teacher training in intercultural bilingual education and intercultural bilingual education in five Andes nations.