Helping young German professionals to join international development organizations: opportunities, shortcomings and reform needs

Abstract: "German public servants are not appropriately represented in many international organizations. With these organizations increasingly using internal promotion to fill their management posts, the Federal German Government should do more to help young professionals and change from a reactive to a proactive, strategically oriented personnel policy for Germans in international organizations. At the same time, the general conditions for returning professionals should be improved. Germany has enough high-quality undergraduate and post-graduate courses and internships to prepare young professionals for work in the development field, but they are not sufficiently geared to occupational integration. Many young professionals fail to take adequate account in their career planning of the need, given the very limited number of permanent posts in international organizations, so to structure their training that they also have job prospects in other institutions at home and abroad. The training pro

Object Details

• Alternative title: Förderung deutscher Nachwuchskräfte für internationale entwicklungspolitische Organisationen: Chancen, Defizite und Reformbedarf
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 4 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Briefing Paper ; Bd. 3/2003

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2003
• Creator: Claus, Burghard
• Contributor: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik gGmbH

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-194534
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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