Bolivia

Projects

Professional technical training Bolivia

The focus of the project places special emphasis on job integration for young people between ages 15 and 24 in the labor market, by focusing on skills development through professional technical training in Technical Technological Institutes and Alternative Education Centers, within the framework of the current public education policy.Only 73% of...

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Markets for Recycling: Waste Management in the Transportation Sector

Population growth coupled with increasing consumerism are factors that have negative impacts on the environment, such as the increased generation of non-recycled solid waste and the growing contamination of bodies of water, soil and air. A linear economy, based on exploiting, making and discarding, wastes natural resources and generates great...

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Senior Expert Contact

Promoting entrepreneurship through expertise - Imparting technical skills through volunteer work Through their services, Senior Expert Contact (SEC) experts provide hands-on, direct support to companies and institutions in their efforts to grow.
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Inclusive Markets in Bolivia

The main objective of the program is "to improve the living conditions of the target population by helping them reduce their poverty situation". The purpose is "to increase the opportunities, capacities and income of the target population".The Inclusive Markets project is implemented in Bolivia with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and...

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Zero Waste Project

The Project seeks to reduce the final disposal of solid waste in sanitary landfills, promoting small, medium and large entrepreneurs to recycle various materials, and use organic waste to produce compost, in order to migrate to a more efficient and environment-friendly circular economy.Bolivia is an urban country. Of its 11.3 million inhabitants,...

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18.03.2023

Strengthening Green Businesses in Bolivia to promote a Circular Economy

Working with public and private partners, Swisscontact supports several initiatives to promote Green Businesses and strengthens awareness of adequate waste disposal in Bolivia.

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23.02.2023

Drones in the Bolivian Altiplano: a technological solution for farmers and the environment

Due to poor soil quality, pests and crop diseases, farmers in the high plateau in western Bolivia resort to using plant chemicals that are harmful to the environment as well as the health of producers and consumers. To address this issue, Swisscontact partnered with the private sector to introduce spray drones that use organic pesticides.

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16.11.2022

Conscious Food from Bolivia - Family Farming products at the Malmö Fair in Sweden

The Centre for the Promotion of Exports to the Swedish Market (OTGS) and the Swedish and Swiss Cooperation in Bolivia, through Inclusive Markets, support their entry into the Scandinavian region. United through the concept: Andean Valley, Coronilla, Green Forest and Sindan Organic participate in the most important Nordic Organic Food Fair in Europe, offering their products in three areas: live cooking, where a chef prepares and describes the ingredients, the business meeting and tasting area, and the product and packaging exhibition area.

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Country Director Swisscontact in Bolivia

Sara Pauli

Swisscontact in Bolivia

Swisscontact started working in Bolivia in 1988. Since then, it has implemented various programs and projects that promote inclusive development – economic, social and environmental – offering economically and socially disadvantaged people the opportunity to improve their lives using their own initiative.

Our work focuses on rural development projects, professional technical training, environment and climate change mitigation, which are concentrated in four main areas: Vocational Education and Skills Development, Insertion in the Labour Market, Sustainable Agriculture, Commerce and Green Cities.

Through our systemic approach and our role as facilitators, we work with a wide network of local stakeholders both in the public and private sector as well as with the academic sector.

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Latin America Regional Report 2021

In 2021, Swisscontact Latin America continued to strengthen synergies with the private and public sectors with the aim of achieving more equal, inclusive and resilient societies that are able to meet the challenges and difficulties facing the region.

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The Journey and Key Achievements of Aire Limpio

The Aire Limpio (Clean Air) Project contributed to the protection of Bolivia’s population, as well as the environment against the effects of air pollution. The results: CO2 emissions have decreased by 370,000 tonnes, and 12 Bolivian cities have designed sustainable mobility plans and are currently implementing them. Aside from this, a national air quality measurement network has been installed. The Aire Limpio project was an SDC project and implemented by Swisscontact from 2003 until 2017.

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