Engagement Global

Engagement Global gGmbH – Service for Development Initiatives (German: Engagement Global GmbH – Service für Entwicklungs Initativen), or Englo, is a German public company. In Germany, Englo is the central state funder for development work in Germany itself. The legal form is a gGmbH, or non-profit GmbH, based in Bonn. The company, founded in 2012, works on behalf of the federal government and reports to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Engagement Global gGmbH – Service for Development Initiatives
AbbreviationEnglo
Formation1 January 2013 (2013-01-01)
TypeFederal Enterprise
Legal statusgGmbH
PurposeInternational Education Work
Location
Chair of the Management Board
Jens Kreuter (theologican)
Staff
690
Websitewww.englo.de/en

History

The development minister at the time, Dirk Niebel (FDP),[1] dissolved three state organizations: "International Training and Development gGmbH" (InWEnt), the "German Development Service gGmbH (DED)" and the "Advice Center for Non-Governmental Organizations (bengo)". Parts of these organizations became the public company Engagement Global on January 1, 2012.

Programs

Englo incorporates all state-financed development initiatives that are not under the umbrella of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ):[2][3]

  • Action group program (AGP), which funds small projects of delvelopment education
  • ASA-Programm, which awards annual scholarships to young adults
  • Program: education meets development (Bildung trifft Entwicklung, BtE), presentations by senior experts in kindergardens and schools
  • Senior expert program for non violence, advisers for conflict zones (Ziviler Friedensdienst, ZFD)

References
  1. deutschlandfunk.de. "Die Revolution steht noch aus". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  2. Angebote von A bis Z: Angebote und Programme im Überblick. Website von Engagement Global, abgerufen am 18. November 2017.
  3. Beratung aus einer Hand: Engagement Global – Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen. Website des BMZ, abgerufen am 18. November 2017.
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