Project Examples
Key to Growth and Poverty Reduction
Professional know how and longstanding experience – for sustainable development.
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How does KfW Entwicklungsbank act in order that potable water is available for slum dwellers of big cities such as Nairobi? How do heating and transportation systems become so energy efficient that they protect the climate and the environment optimally? How can the tropical rain forest be effectively protected with people depending on living off the forests’ resources? And how does a financial system have to look like that also provides access to loans for people, how want to escape poverty?
KfW Entwicklungsbank supports its partner countries in many ways in choosing a path of growth, which fosters development sustainably.
What exactly is planned and implemented in which location and sector depends on the conditions prevailing in the partner country. The guiding principle however is clear: all support should aim at improving the conditions of the poorest strata of the world population while having no negative impact on the climate and the environment.
Alone in the year 2010 KfW Entwicklungsbank – in the name of the German Federal Government – supported projects and programs in its partner countries with 4.5 billion euros. In the following project examples you can read, how KfW Entwicklungsbank applies professional know how and longstanding experience in development cooperation in order to achieve these goals.
