Areas of Activity

The activity areas in which our experts are employed are as varied as the challenges they face in each region or country. For CIM, partner country demand is decisive. Only if the necessary know-how is unavailable locally will CIM search for appropriate expertise on the German labour market. 

In Asia’s rapidly expanding economies, for example, CIM supports the introduction of environmental standards, the establishment of market-oriented organisational structures, the reform and transition of administrative bureaucracies, and, increasingly, civil society organisations. The issue of the environment is high on the list of priorities: from biodiversity, to renewable energies, to disposal of hazardous waste. Ever since the drastic tsunami in 2004, CIM has been active in Indonesia and Sri Lanka in reconstruction, and also in long-term disaster prevention. 

In placing managers and technical experts, however, CIM does not focus its efforts solely on meeting partner country demand but also keeps in mind the regional and contextual priority areas of German Development Cooperation. These are strongly oriented to the Millennium Development Goals set by the international community in 2000. The primary aim of the Millennium Development Goals is to halve extreme poverty and hunger throughout the world by 2015.

Many employers play a special role in their country’s development progress, even if they do not happen to fall within the particular priority areas of German development policy. In order to meet the demand of these employers, CIM can act to a limited extent outside the development policy priority areas of German Development Cooperation.