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Office address
GTZ Office El Salvador
Country Director Mr Dr Christof Küchemann Postal address Agencia de la GTZ en San Salvador Ave. La Capilla No. 254, Col. San Benito Apartado Postal No. 755 San Salvador El Salvador Tel: +503 243-7734 Fax: +503 243-0410 Email: gtz-el-salvador@gtz.de 
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GTZ in El Salvador
The GTZ has cooperated with its partners in El Salvador for more than 40 years. Even during the Despite the end of the armed conflict, the peace process cannot be regarded as consolidated. The causes of the war have not yet been addressed. Some of these factors, including income inequality, the severe shortage of social services and high structural unemployment, have even become worse. In the medium to long term, GTZ intends to strengthen the democratisation process by addressing the causes of the war and its consequences in the following priority areas:
The strategic orientation of these priority areas was defined by the Germany Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in corresponding priority area strategy papers. Current projects in the health sector will either be phased out in the medium term or, after modifying their objectives, integrated into components of other existing programmes. All promotion measures endeavour to involve the affected population in the planning and implementation process, and to achieve a better integration of the interests of women and young people and of environmental protection. GTZ provides advice at various levels: to the Government on changing the political and legal framework; to nationwide or regional public and private institutions on fulfilling their functions in a professional manner; and to target groups on strengthening their self-help potential and political negotiation capacities. The integration of Central American states is gaining significance. For a small, resource-poor country such as El Salvador, closer economic and political cooperation in the region offers important future perspectives. An ever more important criterion is the promotion of cooperation between the partner country’s institutions and bilateral and multilateral donors.
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