Improving medical metrological infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that health systems in most Latin America and the Caribbean are not well prepared for such a crisis. One of the most important bottlenecks to date are the lack of respiratory equipment, intensive care units, sufficient and sure oxygen supply and enough qualified medical personnel for handling this equipment. The…

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ColombiaMide – Better quality for cocoa and avocados in Columbia

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Columbia face many challenges to be competitive in local and international markets. One criterion is particularly crucial: the quality of products, as this is the basis of productivity. As a journalist from the Columbian daily newspaper El Espectador recently wrote, “Quality is like vitamin C for companies”. The ColombiaMide project…

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PTB’s triangular cooperation projects score in evaluations

The evaluation report Triangular cooperation in German development cooperation has been published. In this report, special mention is made of PTB’s five successful cooperation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.   It was not without good reason that triangular cooperation projects have been increasingly moving into the focus in International Cooperation since 2011. The…

Pilot Project for Introducing Energy Management Systems in Mexican SMEs

The bilateral project »Quality Infrastructure for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency in Mexico« is being realized by the Technical Cooperation Department since 2013 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as a part of the German-Mexican development program »Sustainable Energy in Mexico«. During the course of this project, we successfully…