In 8 minutes or less: How will new German aid reforms lead to more effective foreign assistance?

In this podcast, GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Jim Kolbe and Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz, the State Secretary for the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, discuss the recent German aid reforms. With 19,000 staff under a single entity and strategy, Germany now has the world’s largest bilateral agency. Secretary Beerfeltz discusses the factors that led to this consolidation and how will it result in more effective aid. He also explains the shift toward more bilateral development assistance in Germany. .