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The Service Agency Communities in One World

Your partner for all issues related to municipal development cooperation

When it comes to tackling global challenges such as urbanisation, migration and climate change, municipalities have a key role to play – in Germany and worldwide. An increasing number of municipalities are getting involved in development cooperation, for example by promoting fair trade and fair procurement processes, implementing local sustainability strategies or forging international partnerships with municipalities in the Global South. We support them from the early stages right up to the implementation of complex projects.

We provide human and financial resources to support your engagement for development, and offer various platforms for professional exchange. Our services are designed for municipal decision-makers and administrators, as well as civil society groups that work together with municipalities.

Together, we implement your ideas in Germany and in your partner municipalities in the Global South – for a sustainable One World. Contact us to enquire about possible areas of activity and support programmes.
We will be happy to advise you.

Your engagement

We support your engagement for development in the following areas:

Fair trade and fair procurement:

All issues related to fair and sustainable public procurement

Municipalities for global sustainability:

Information, advice and inputs to support your processes for development and sustainability

Municipal partnerships:

Facilitating, establishing and maintaining relationships and projects with partner municipalities in the Global South

As a division of Engagement Global, the Service Agency Communities in One World is an institutionalised point of contact for municipal development cooperation. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the federal states of Baden‑Württemberg, Bremen, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, we are well-positioned in the long term, both financially and in terms of staff.

We design our strategies and programmes together with our programme advisory board and our programme commission.

Our first work programme, which the programme commission discussed and adopted at its inaugural meeting on 10 January 2002, laid the foundations that have shaped our work to this day.