InWEnt GmbH (former CDG) is a leading European institutions for international training and human resources development and has initiated it@ab in 2001/2002.

The overall organization's objectives are: Promoting know-how transfer between North and South, East and West, international exchange of experience, initiating developmental processes and global cooperation. As changes and development will always be man-made, people are central to all InWEnt activities.

About 300,000 people from all over the world have participated in CDG programs since its foundation in 1949.

InWent is an institution supported by both industry and state. Approximately 800 firms, organizations and individuals from commerce and industry are members. Major commissioning bodies are the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, other federal ministries and the ministries of the federal states, and the European Union. They bear most of the costs of programs, personnel, and materials amounting to roughly € 95 million per year.

German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

The BMZ develops the guidelines and the fundamental concepts on which German development policy is based. It lays down the long-term strategies for cooperation with the various actors involved, and defines the rules by which these are translated into practice. Official development assistance (ODA) embraces all technical and financial cooperation projects which are agreed on in contracts entered into with the governments of partner countries. The BMZ commissions „implementing organisations“ (such as GTZ, KfW Development Bank and InWEnt) to realise these projects.

The BMZ provided core funds to the it@ab operations.