In the light of climate change, GTZ otherwise known as the international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development, lately emphasized their projects on issues dealing with sustainable management of natural resources. The results on four projects of GTZ were presented on Tropentag 2nd day of conference. One project highlighted is presented by Dr. Markus Buerli, SDC Programme Officer for Mongolia, which focused on a project on pasture ecosystem management; with a topic preserving the Green Gold of Mongolia. The main approach of the Green Gold project which started in 2004 was to facilitate the formation of Pasture User Groups (PUGs) which – lately – comprises of 10,000 herders, in order to support these groups in attaining legal recognition, empowerment of the communities, collective actions as well as to develop pasture management plans. In Mongolia, where people struggle to survive the long and hard winter, and an addition to that a case of the dry summer as well, had caused the death of about 8.5 million of livestock, thus eliminating the livelihoods of many families, as Dr. Markus Buerli said. Although help and support for these groups is abundant, Markus claims that constraints is at the national level is unavoidable and therefore they focused mainly on the local level, in which they received support and the permission to proceed the project. As a result, the project is now seeking further political will from the government of Mongolia, where they plan to have 40 districts to be projected in the near future. At the meantime, Markus is hoping to see some decline in the numbers of pasteur groups for the future of Mongolia. Later on, Gudrun Schwilch from the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) talked about sustainable land management (SLM) through WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies) which is an established global network of Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) specialists. WOCAT aim is to prevent and reduce land degradation by working at two levels. On a local level, WOCAT is sharing technologies & approaches, while on the global level it provides degradation and conservation map. As Gudrun explains, the use of WOCAT tools can stimulate evaluation resulting into two aspects of (1) self-evaluation of own experiences and (2) learn from comparing with other experiences, in which according to her is not sufficient enough for selection of best practices. Therefore three further methodologies are provided by WOCAT in order to cope into this situation. As key elements, three elements follow: selection of options from WOCAT database, scoring and decision with software, and embedded into stakeholder workshop. A closing presentation was given by the Human Resources Department of GTZ on their requirements for employing technical advisors to work in projects dealing with cultural challenges. GTZ is an international cooperation for sustainable development. Belonging to the government of Germany, GTZ also works on behalf of international organizations, other governments, foundations and companies with worldwide operations.