GIZ Côte d'Ivoire

About us

German development cooperation has been providing support to Côte d’Ivoire since 1975. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has several offices in the country. 
Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s largest cocoa producer, with an approximately 40 per cent share of the global market. The nation is also a major producer of cashew nuts, rubber and coffee.
GIZ is working on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ) and the German Federal Foreign Office to address the following topics:
-  Rural economic development
-  Biodiversity conservation
-  Environment
-  Resource governance
-  Renewable energies and energy efficiency
-  Employment and business development
-  Security sector
In the agricultural sector, several projects and partnerships with companies are promoting cocoa, cashew nut, cassava, onion and rice value chains. GIZ and its partners are also advising smallholders on efficient and environmentally sustainable production methods. GIZ’s nature conservation and biodiversity work is mainly concentrated in the Taï and Comoé national parks in the south west and north east of the country. As part of BMZ’s ‘One World – No Hunger’ Initiative, GIZ is promoting the production of cocoa without deforestation, in addition to innovation in the cocoa sector. Two other projects are helping to prevent illegal land clearance. 
 As part of the G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) and the reform partnership established in 2017 between the Ivorian and German Governments, programmes work in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency as well as promotion of small and medium sized enterprises (SME), here with the aim to create jobs.