About us

AGIAMONDO e.V. – which operated as the Association for Development Cooperation (AGEH) until 2019 – is the German Catholic personnel service for international cooperation.

We are one of nine institutions in Germany recognised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) that deploys development workers in accordance with the German Development Aid Workers Act (EhfG).

We recruit qualified development workers for church and non-state development cooperation projects. In the Civil Peace Service, we also develop peacebuilding programmes together with partner organisations in countries affected by conflict. The Voluntary International Services (fid) office advises support organisations on establishing and expanding their international voluntary services and lobbies for them politically. 

Our understanding of personnel cooperation

Development and change call for new ideas. The most effective way to generate these is through interaction and exchange – and with a common desire to achieve social progress.

Working together gives rise to new ideas and innovative problem-solving approaches of a kind that would not exist without personnel cooperation: mutually supportive, cooperative development for all. Our work is founded on this basic conviction: personnel cooperation in all directions and all over the world, in a spirit of equality and mutual appreciation.

As the personnel agency of the German Catholics for international cooperation, we are committed above all to Christian values. The primary focus for us is on charity and preserving creation. Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter points us in the direction that we need to go and sets great store by the power of community and the need for dialogue.

From a development service towards a service to the world

Development cooperation is not a one-way street running from North to South. Whether developing and emerging countries in the South or industrial countries in the North, all countries are developing countries. That means that we all need to develop. After all, it is only by developing solutions together that we can tackle the urgent problems of our world: poverty and hunger, injustice and violence, climate change and the destruction of our natural resources.