Their mission is to continue being one of the world's leading and most experienced promotional banks, apply their expertise and strength to sustainably improve the economic, social and ecological conditions of people's lives. Its KfW Entwicklungsbank works on behalf of the German Government, helping to achieve the goals set for German Development Cooperation: to reduce poverty, protect the climate, ensure peace and make globalisation fair to help especially those people living in poor parts of the world to benefit. They finance water supply projects, sewage disposal and waste management projects, environmentally friendly transport concepts. In the financial sector they assist with building up micro finance institutions and offer advice to partner countries on bringing already developed financial markets into the international capital markets.