THE German Development Service (DED) is to extend a 2.5-million euro package for various development initiatives in Ghana next year.
The package represents a 25-per cent increase in development assistance offered by the DED to Ghana in 2009.
The Managing Director of the DED, Mr Jurgen Wilhelm, who announced the package at a press conference on the bi-annual inter-African conference in Accra on Tuesday, said the DED would focus its activities on challenges arising from climate change.
“It is time to seek solutions to problems emerging out of the global climate change adapted to every country’s situation,” he said.
He said currently, DED co-operation with Ghana was in the rehabilitation of dams and said that was being undertaken in co-operation with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Mr Wilhelm said the DED would promote and support professional training systems and small-size enterprises and also support the production and marketing of agricultural and forestry products.
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the DED, Dr Uwe Runge, underlined the fact that the new German Government recognised that it was indispensable and that there were no cut-backs on the efforts of development co-operation.
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