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Contents

Focus

Fast and Effective Help

Rural Milk Processing with Biogas

Local Cheese Production in Tanzania

United Front to Combat Housing Shortage

Composting as a Municipal Responsibility

Natural Drying of Grapes for Raisin Production

Special report

Tools for Development?

Report

Institutional Development in Environment

Beyond UNCED

UNCED: What Was Agreed

Reflection

An Expected Disappointment

Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies

Visiting Card

Questions & answers

AT activities

Development scene

Bookbox

Courses & meetings

GATE publications

Deutsches Zentrum fur Entwicklungstechnologien

GATE is not only the name of this quarterly. It also stands for German Appropriate Technology Exchange, founded in 1978 as a special division (Division 4020) of the government-owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Agency for Technical Cooperation).

Tasks

GATE is a centre For the dissemination and promotion of appropriate technologies for developing countries. GATE defines "appropriate technologies" as those which appear particularly apposite in the light of economic, social and cultural criteria. They should contribute to socio-economic development whilst ensuring optima] utilization of resources and minimal detriment to the environment. Depending on the case a hand a traditional, intermediate or highly-developed technology can be the "appropriate" one.

Activities

GATE focusses its work on the following areas:

• Technology Dissemination: Collecting and disseminating information on technologies appropriate to the needs of the developing countries; ascertaining the technological requirements of Third World countries; support in the form of personnel, material and equipment to promote the development and adaption of technologies for developing countries.

• Environmental Protection: The growing importance of ecology and environmental protection requires better coordination and harmonization of projects. In order to tackle these tasks more effectively, a coordination centre was set up within GATE in 1985.

Service

GATE offers a free information service on appropriate technologies for all public and privet development institutions in countries dealing with the development, adaption application and introduction of technologies.

Deutsches Zentrum für Entwicklungstechnologien

German Appropriate Technology Exchange

Centro Aleman pare Tecnologias Apropiadas

Centre allemand d'tinter-technologie appropriée

Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1

D-6236 Eschborn

Federal Republic of

Germany