CIM profile

The Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM) is the human resources placement organisation for German Development Cooperation.

We place managers and technical experts in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern and South Eastern Europe, and we support them with services and with subsidies to top up their local salaries.

Our partners are competent, independent employers within our partner countries’ civil services, private sectors and civil societies. On their behalf, we recruit experts from European Union countries on the German labour market, and also partner-country experts who have been educated in Germany and would like to return to their home countries.

Our mission is to support our partners’ contributions to their countries’ development and the attainment of the goals set jointly by each partner country and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). We accomplish this by supplying the demand of these countries for the kind of highly-qualified professionals they could not attract under customary national employment conditions.

The management and technical experts we place are integrated into on-site structures through a local employment contract and the goals we agree together. Within a wide range of networks and partnerships that span the globe, these experts pursue the development policy goals of the German Federal Government: results-oriented, sustainable development through international cooperation.

CIM is a small and flexible organisation within the German Development Cooperation system. As a joint operation, it is supported by two strong partners, whose respective range of services it supplements: the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH – German International Cooperation – and the German Federal Employment Agency (BA).