Within the framework of personnel cooperation (PC), basic training and further training are provided for local experts and managerial personnel of developing countries. This training largely takes place in Germany. By the end of 1996, about 209,000 participants from developing countries had benefited from such programs; roughly 24,000 were engaged in training in 1996. The object of this personnel cooperation is to give people from developing countries suitable opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills on their own responsibility. Thus they are helped to start up in business or are employed on development cooperation projects. At the end of 1996, about 4,000 local experts were already working alongside about 1,300 German experts on technical cooperation projects financed by Germany. Of the 1,800 or so working on financial cooperation projects, approximately 900 were experts from developing countries.