InWEnt`s Managing Director, Bernd Schleich
Tanzania`s reliable investment climate has won the hearts of InWEnt`s Board of Directors who have chosen Dar es Salaam as the venue for the first regional and interdisciplinary alumni conference.
Bernd Schleich, the InWEnt`s Managing Director, a capacity building international firm based in Germany revealed this at a press conference he organised in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday.
He said the long standing relationship that exists between Germany and Tanzania added the advantage for them to bring such a regional meeting to the country.
The three-day first regional and interdisciplinary alumni conference in Africa focusing on the topic "Partnership for a Sustainable Development" opened in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday.
It is being attended by about 250 alumni of InWEnt drawn from 26 African countries.
Schleich said his organisation has played and will continue playing a key role in efforts to contribute to sustainable development in Africa.
"Global sustainable development is the main conceptual approach and guideline for InWEnt's activities. This concept embraces the capacity for economic performance, social justice, ecological sustainability and political responsibility," he said.
He added that InWEnt works together with people in key positions, assisting them in shaping change processes in their own countries.
He said their capacity building programmes are directed at experts and executives from politics, administration, business community and civil society.
InWEnt qualifies people who pass on their knowledge, thereby working towards long-term, structural change, the MD stressed.
According to him, InWEnt is part of the German development cooperation system managed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
He said their programmes and projects constitute an integral but at the same time specific part of German development cooperation with Africa within the core sectors identified by the cooperation and partner institutions.
He said the instruments, namely, advanced professional training, dialogue, network building as well as personnel development advice, complement the bilateral technical and financial cooperation in order to achieve an efficient division of labour with all partners involved.
He said since 2004 German development cooperation has been subjected to reorientation process regarding its cooperation with Africa - or, more precisely, sub-Saharan Africa.
For example, he said the federal president of Germany launched the ``Partnership with Africa`` initiative to discuss with reform-minded African leaders the relationship between the countries of Africa and the industrialised nations.
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