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24-843: KCH may refer to: Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi Kennedy Center Honors King's College Hospital in London Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order of the House of Hanover Knowledge Channel , Philippine educational TV channel Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw, Indiana, United States Kuching International Airport , in Malaysia Kwai Chung Hospital ,

48-581: A 49% share in sequa gGmbH, the implementing partner of the German business community, in line with the company's objective to foster private sector development and cooperate closely with business chambers and associations abroad. Moreover, GIZ is a member of the European Network of Implementing Development Agencies (EUNIDA), which was co-founded by GTZ in 2000. GIZ's considers capacity development to be its core discipline. GIZ has been involved in

72-588: A former Social Democrat local politician, was previously one of three managing directors. Prior to him, the inaugural chairperson was Tanja Gönner , a former state-level minister of the Christian Democrats , who left politics during protests against the Stuttgart 21 train station project. She came to GIZ without prior experience in international development. She left GIZ in November 2022 to lead

96-534: A psychiatric hospital in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KCH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KCH&oldid=1247396599 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

120-592: Is Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Other commissioners include European Union institutions, the United Nations , the private sector , and governments of other countries. In its projects GIZ works with partners in national governments, actors from the private sector, civil society and research institutions. Additionally, in cooperation with the German Federal Employment Agency, GIZ operates

144-816: Is a global voluntary standard which integrates key criteria of sustainability and resilience into infrastructure development and upgrade. SuRe® is developed by GIB Foundation and Natixis as part of a multi-stakeholder process and will be compliant with ISEAL guidelines. Finally, GIZ also hosts the Eschborn Dialogue, a two-day event for international experts on a given topic in international cooperation (e.g. "World in motion: mobility, migration, digital change" in 2014 or "Raw materials and resources: growth, values, competition" in 2013). The Eschborn Dialogue has been organized each year since 1988. In 2021, German troops ended their presence in Afghanistan. Since then,

168-484: Is a large referral hospital that serves as the referral hospital for the Central Region of Malawi. It is the referral hospital for about 5 million people. As of May 2020, it had about 60 doctors and about 300 nurses. As of 2019, the hospital admitted as many as 25,000 children annually. That is an average of about 70 children daily. In April 2012, the late Bingu wa Mutharika (24 February 1934 – 5 April 2012),

192-666: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kamuzu Central Hospital The hospital is located in an area of the city of Lilongwe called Area 33 (also Nangwagwa ), south of the Lingazi Namilomba Forest Reserve and the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre ; adjacent to Kamuzu College of Nursing . The geographical coordinates of the hospital are:13°58'37.0"S, 33°47'11.0"E (Latitude:-13.976944; Longitude:33.786389). Kamuzu Central Hospital

216-747: Is the main German development agency . It is headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn and provides services in the field of international development cooperation and international education work. The organization's self-declared goal is to deliver effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions. According to the OECD , Germany’s total ODA (USD 35 billion, preliminary data) increased in 2022 due to an increase in in-donor refugee costs and increased contributions to international organisations. It represented 0.83% of gross national income (GNI). GIZ's main commissioning party

240-609: The European Union , UN agencies , other international institutions such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFFATM), and foreign governments. The cooperation with private enterprises is an emerging field, promoted under the name of sustainable development. The GIZ is set up with International Services (IS) and the Public Private Partnership (PPP) in this area. In 2012,

264-610: The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). At the national level, GIZ, however, is also commissioned by other government departments, e.g. the Federal Foreign Office , the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU), or the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), as well as by German states and municipalities. At the international level, GIZ cooperates with

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288-586: The German Hospital Partnership MAGNET , administered through the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ). Funding continued until 2015, having started in 2008. Deutsche Gesellschaft f%C3%BCr Internationale Zusammenarbeit The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ( English : German International Cooperation Society (GIZ) ), often simply shortened to GIZ ,

312-664: The Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), an agency specialized on international cooperation activities related to global labor mobility. GIZ was established on 1 January 2011, through the merger of three German international development organizations: the Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt). The merger

336-452: The Court of Audit noted, that some of the numbers for controlling had apparently been designed especially to allow higher bonuses every year for the 3 GIZ directors. In 2019 Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel became a board member and got paid 230.000 Euros in 2022, which increased to 242.000 Euros per year in 2023, plus pension claims. In March 2024, Baraa Odeh, a Palestinian GIZ employee of 10 years,

360-563: The GIZ employed 23,614 staff members in ca. 120 countries. Close to 70 percent are local forces that are complemented by development aid workers as well as experts from the Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung that helps to integrate employees into the workforce in developing countries. The majority (80%) of employees is working outside of Germany. The GIZ operates in a variety of countries with different security situations. Staff of

384-647: The German government-owned development bank KfW , which is based in Frankfurt. While GIZ implements those projects on behalf of the BMZ that belong to "technical cooperation", i.e. capacity development, the KfW implements those BMZ projects belonging to "financial cooperation". GIZ is currently represented in the SuRe® Stakeholder Council. SuRe® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

408-845: The German industry lobby BDI. The Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)) is GIZ's sole shareholder. The organization is structured into eight corporate units (Corporate Development; Corporate Communications; Legal Affairs and Insurance; Compliance and Integrity; Auditing; Evaluation; Corporate Security; Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ)) and ten departments (Commissioning Parties and Business Development; Sectoral Development; Sector and Global Programmes; Africa; Asia, Latin America, Caribbean; Europe, Mediterranean, Central Asia; International Services; Human Resources). GIZ holds

432-586: The Taliban have taken over the country and persecuted former staff of foreign states, including former local staff of Germany. This led Germany to allow some local staff to immigrate. However, GIZ continued hiring new local staff in Afghanistan, and was criticised for this in 2022. The GIZ continued to draw criticism for its spending. The Bundesrechnungshof concluded in 2023, that the GIZ does not produce data that allow to evaluate its economic efficiency. There were no mechanisms in place to encourage cost cutting and

456-607: The company has a representation in Brussels and operates 90 offices around the world. Because GIZ is incorporated under German law as a GmbH (limited liability company), it is governed by a management board that acts on behalf of the company's shareholders and is monitored by a supervisory board. Additionally, GIZ also has a board of trustees and a Private Sector Advisory Board. GIZ's management board consists of two managing directors, namely Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (Chairperson) and Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven. Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel,

480-602: The creation of various networks, associations and portals, and may carry out or support secretariat functions for some of these for a limited period of time. Examples of such networks and associations that have had some GIZ involvement include: Other global agendas supported by GIZ include South-South cooperation , i.e. bilateral cooperation between developing countries and emerging economies, and triangular cooperation between developing countries as beneficiaries, emerging economies as "new donors" and traditional donors, e.g. Germany, as contributors of expertise. GIZ works closely with

504-562: The hospital was known as Lilongwe Central Hospital . In 2004, it rebranded to its current name. Kamuzu Central Hospital has a partnership with the University of North Carolina . The objective of the collaboration is to "identify innovative, culturally acceptable, and affordable methods to improve the health of the people of Malawi, through research, capacity building, and care". The hospital also receives support from Baylor Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). Additional support came from

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528-639: The third President of Malawi was admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital and was diagnosed with cardiac arrest . The hospital was built in 1977 by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), with money provided by the government of Denmark . Political problems cropped up before the hospital was complete. Only the first phase was finished. The departments that were left out included (a) Obstetrics & Gynecology including Antenatal care (b) Orthopedics (c) Psychiatry and (d) Tuberculosis unit. From 1977 until 2004,

552-490: Was arrested by Israeli border guards after a trip, administratively detained for three months without charge, and subjected to abusive and humiliating treatment. GIZ stated it would work "with all the means at its disposal to clarify the background.” Germany's development ministry commented: “The Federal Government is critical of the practice of administrative detention – [...] International humanitarian law sets strict limits on this practice.” GIZ mainly operates on behalf of

576-642: Was overseen by Dirk Niebel , federal development minister from 2009 to 2013. His predecessor had previously tried and failed to merge the DED with the KfW . GIZ is one of the world's largest development agencies , with a business volume in excess of €3.1 billion in 2019 as well as 22,199 employees spread over more than 120 countries. GIZ's headquarters are located in Bonn and Eschborn . It also has an office in Berlin and at 16 other locations across Germany. Outside Germany,

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