Mozambique

Since 2013, Swisscontact has built a track record across sustainable agriculture (Hortisempre 2013–2021, FAR 2017–2020) and vocational skills development (Skills to Build 2017–2026), and more recently in the circular economy through the Norway‑funded Matola waste management solutions. The current portfolio concentrates on three themes: vocational training and labour‑market insertion, circular economy and waste management, and climate‑smart agriculture, all delivered through an Inclusive Systems Development approach that works with, rather than around, national institutions and local markets.

Through Skills to Build Phase III (2025–2026), Swisscontact partners with more than ten training centres, the national TVET authority ANEP and around 75 private companies across Maputo and Manica to operationalise Competency‑Based Training, expand internships, facilitate Recognition of Prior Learning for informal workers, and pilot SME workshop growth support for small firms to absorb young talent, targeting 3,000 youth in Phase III. In parallel, Swisscontact Mozambique aims to expand its work with the Municipality of Matola, the Norwegian Embassy and local waste entrepreneurs is turning solid waste management into a source of jobs and cleaner urban services, mapping the value chain and testing decentralised composting, recycling and organic waste solutions.

Swisscontact Mozambique works through Mozambican TVET institutions, private companies and workshops, municipalities, civil‑society partners, together with donors such as SDC, the Norwegian Embassy and private Swiss foundations. The intended outcome is systemic: a national skills system that delivers employable youth, a private sector that co‑invests in training and hires them, and municipalities better able to translate local economic potential into real jobs and incomes.