Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector, and governments of other countries. GIZ works with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. GIZ’s main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). GIZ works with the commissioning parties and cooperation partners to generate ideas for political, social and economic change, to develop these into concrete plans and to implement them. Since GIZ is a public-benefit federal enterprise, German and European values are central to its work. Together with its partners in national governments worldwide and cooperation partners from the worlds of business, research and civil society, GIZ works flexibly to deliver effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions.
In the Skills Alliance for Ukraine, GIZ is represented with three projects:
• “Multi Donor Inititative Skills4Recovery”, which supports Ukraine in skilling labour force for reconstruction. The project operates throughout Ukraine as well as in the economic sectors that are important for Ukrainian reconstruction. The project trains teachers and managers of vocational education and training providers in dealing with vulnerable groups such as former combatants and internally displaced people. It promotes partnerships between VET training providers and companies in order to offer practice-oriented training courses. It also develops programmes on career orientation for young people, adults and vulnerable groups in the recovery-relevant economic sectors. In addition, it advises the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine on creating a conducive political and legal framework so that people can receive initial and further training. Through these measures, the project can improve the skills of the labour force and promote equal opportunities for all population groups. In this way, it makes a long-term contribution to the economic reconstruction of Ukraine.
• “Promotion of energy efficiency and implementation of the EU Energy efficiency Directive in Ukraine”, which supports Ukraine is using the framework conditions for energy efficiency more effectively, and reconstruction based on the principle of ‘build back better’. The project contributes to Ukraine’s implementation of an energy transition towards an environmentally friendly and efficient provision of energy. This will also create new jobs and open markets for energy services. Moreover, it will reduce the high energy consumption and costs of public and private buildings as well as supporting households and companies in planning, budgeting and implementing their own efficiency measures. The project advises the Ukrainian Government on the practical implementation of European Union Directives 2012/27/EU and 2010/31/EU, contributes to the development of the Ukrainian legal framework, ensures implementation of practical measures in the municipalities and mainstreaming of energy efficiency as a topic in education and training and in companies, provides training courses on energy management for employees of municipal authorities, supports the implementation of energy management and the development of municipal energy plans and
o advises destroyed or damaged companies in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions on damage assessment, technical analysis and modern, energy-efficient reconstruction. In achieving this, the project concentrates on training employees, increasing the attractiveness of engineering and technical professions, and gender mainstreaming in the energy sector.
• “Centres for Migration and Development (ZME)”: The global project “Centres for Migration and Development” (ZME) is commissioned to support partner structures to manage migration from which all sides benefit. With its advisory structures in countries of origin, the project advises and supports people interested on return and socio-economic reintegration in their country of origin as well as on possibilities for regular labour and training migration. The needs of women are given special consideration. The project is currently being implemented in 13 partner countries of German development cooperation.
As of May 2025, 2,468 people have been trained country-wide under S4R. This includes 1,139 men and 1,329 women, and covers beneficiaries from vulnerable groups.
Under FEER, 5,837 have been trained, including 684 women.