Our model for success is a better life for everyone and purposeful tasks for our employees. For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation of development policy goals worldwide. Together with partner organisations in more than 130 countries, we are involved in a diverse range of projects. If you want to make a difference in the world and develop yourself in the process, you’ve come to the right place.

The African Union (AU), established as a unique Pan African continental body, was charged with the responsibility to coordinate and provide overall guidance for the negotiations on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). GIZ supports the AfCFTA negotiation process through technical support to the relevant AU organs. The project in support of the AfCFTA works in close collaboration with multiple partners to support the content of free trade negotiations in the areas of trade in goods and services, trade facilitation, customs cooperation as well as on the various AfCFTA protocols and related annexes. The new Technical Assistance Facility to support the AfCFTA is meant to be an efficient, reactive and flexible mechanism to answer to the needs of the AU, other partners and regional private sector organisations, working on fostering the AfCFTA and economic continental integration.