Who we are

The German Health Practice Collection (GHPC) is an initiative of the Division of Education, Health and Population Policy of the German Ministry of Financial Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and of its four implementing organisations, KfW Entwicklungsbank, German Technical Cooperation GmbH (GTZ), German Development Service (DED) and Capacity Building International (InWEnt). It aims to to share, at international level, promising practices developed in German-supported health programmes worldwide.

How we work

Organisations implementing health programmes supported by German Development Cooperation (GDC), whether they are government or non-government organisations, can propose methods and approaches they developed for documentation in the German Health Practice Collection.

Applicants have to fill in and submit this proposal form.

All proposals are assessed by an editorial board of health experts from the head offices of the German development organisations and from German-supported health programmes in partner countries.

The editorial board ranks the proposals and selects those that meet the majority of the Collection’s selection criteria (see 'Successful Programmes') and that help raise the profile of German Development Cooperation in health.

The GHPC Secretariat will then send a professional writer to the site of the selected programme. The writers support the partner organisations and the German experts in documenting the methods that they have developed. Documentations always encompass a written publication and photos. They often include useful materials for downloading. And, increasingly, they also include video and audio clips.

Once the draft version of the text for publication is complete, at least two independent international peer reviewers with renowned expertise in the particular field must approve these methods as ‘state of the art’ before they are published as part of the German Health Practice Collection.

Our ‘products’

Each of our reports is published in English as well as in the main language of the region from which it stems (mostly French and Russian). For each report, a long (approx. 30 pages) and a short version (4 pages) are available as .pdf-files for downloading under Successful Programmes sub-menues. The short versions can also be read online.
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On authorships

In our publications, we credit partner and German experts as authors who contributed substantially to the development of the described method or approach; and contributed to its documentation. The professional writers are credited as writers. Others who played a role in the development of the approach will be credited in the acknowledgements.

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