This online training course is directed at business partners (partnering companies, service providers, suppliers and recipients of financing) of GIZ. It aims to inform you about sustainability management at GIZ and about key elements of the sustainability standards we apply. In addition, the online course would like to encourage business partners of GIZ to implement sustainability standards and thus use their full sustainability potential. The course is available in German and English.

As a business partner at GIZ, you will find out about the considerable relevance of the topic of sustainability and learn about the context of the subject matter (SDGs, Global Compact, Stakeholder Claim).

• You will gain an impression of how GIZ applies the topic of sustainability – both in your projects and in the company itself.
• You will develop ideas on how you can address and apply the topic of sustainability during your work as a business partner at GIZ.
• You will deepen your sense of responsibility for sustainable action and act as a multiplier.
• You will know where to find further information and personal contacts at GIZ and the dialogue formats that GIZ offers on the topic of sustainability.

• Corporate sustainability as a success factor
• The three dimensions of corporate sustainability
• The “Social Responsibility” dimension
• The “Ecological Balance” dimension
• The “Economic Capacity” dimension
• The GIZ “Corporate Sustainability Handprint” instrument
• Personal ideas on applying sustainability during your work