Having been the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990, Bonn is today still an important center for political and international development work. A number of federal ministries (such as the Ministry for International Cooperation and the Ministry for the Environment), are still located in the city, meaning that many key organizations working in these areas are also based there.
Perhaps most notably, a UN Campus was opened in Bonn in 2006 and was expanded in 2013 so that it now acts as seat to a total of 18 organizations of the United Nations including the UNFCCC (the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) and the UNV (the UN Volunteers program).
Organizations based in Bonn:
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
- Deutscher Tierschutzbund
- FSC International
- Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Oroverde
- Unicef
- Welthungerhilfe
- Aktion Deutschland hilft
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Entwicklungsdienste
- Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
- CARE
- Engagement Global
- Germanwatch
- HELP
- VENRO