Collaboration with companies

Together with Swisscontact, you create impact both locally and globally. We develop solutions that merge your values and business objectives, leading to sustainable projects and partnerships. Your expertise steers economic development directly to the people. We will accompany you from concept creation to measuring impact, providing guidance even when you are facing individual challenges.

What we offer

There are a variety of ways to collaborate. As a company, you can support existing projects or co-develop tailored, sustainable solutions together with our experts. We will support you through your challenges such as skills shortages. We will help you to improve supply chains through traceability, certification, and compliance. In this way, we will help to secure livelihoods while strengthening CSR goals, reputation, and innovation capacity.

Thanks to our strong network, we are a bridge-builder for public-private partnerships.

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Custom Project

Together, we will analyse your business challenge and design a sustainable partnership project. Your company goals are front and centre, and we will find synergies with our core development objectives.

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CO-FINANCE an existing project

Get involved in one of our specific core areas and support an existing project. You benefit from broad-based collaboration with multiple partners and advance an issue important to your company.

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Public-private partnerships

Together, we shape future-proof partnerships between the public sector and private industry. From concept to implementation, we can coordinate collaboration with development agencies and ensure that your engagement contributes effectively to sustainable development outcomes.

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We provide holistic support – from strategic review to implementing impact-driven programs. Through in-depth analyses, practical research, and tailored training, we foster systemic change and strengthen sustainable partnerships.

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Omar Kassab
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Your benefits and our success factors

  1. Business-oriented development approach: private initiatives drive innovation and economic advancement. We focus on scalable solutions that benefit all stakeholders.
  2. Strong local presence: our local teams and their deep knowledge of local conditions ensure sustainable impact. Local professionals support actors and organizations on the ground to take on long-term responsibility.
  3. Addressing the root causes: we rely on thorough root-cause analysis and tailored approaches to achieve real, sustainable change. The standard solutions simply don’t work.
  4. Traceable results: systematic impact assessment delivers transparent results. Our projects bring measurable, positive change worldwide.
  5. Long-term partnerships: we create and maintain partnerships with local governments at the national and community level, private sector actors, civil society organizations, and other relevant stakeholders – built on deep experience and proven impact.

Further references and partnerships

Every partnership is unique, and together we will discover the potential of your involvement. You will create sustainable solutions wherever they are most urgently needed. Projects are aligned with your company’s goals and merged with our focus areas, creating added value for all parties. What does this mean in practice? Our successful partnerships show the way:

2022 - 2029
Kenya
Initial vocational education and training
Vocational education in Kenya with Hilti Foundation
Together with our partner Hilti Foundation and in close cooperation with leading local businesses and vocational schools, we are creating a new training initiative in Kenya. This project equips young people with professional skills that are demanded in the construction sector.
2023 - 2026
Bangladesh
Initial vocational education and training
Qualified healthcare in rural Bangladesh with Novartis
Offering a two-year course, this project trains young Bangladeshi adults as healthcare professionals, especially women from rural districts. The training applies innovative methods such as blended learning and virtual reality. This enhances local healthcare and opens new career opportunities for youth.
2023 - 2029
Indonesia
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable land use in Indonesia
This project promotes climate-resilient economic development in the Leuser Ecosystem and Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve in North Sumatra with global palm oil producers and buyers. The goal is to slow down deforestation while increasing incomes through sustainable cultivation of palm oil and cocoa. The project is supported by MARS, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, and Unilever.
2023 - 2026
Honduras
Sustainable agriculture
Strengthening female coffee producers in Honduras with Nestlé
This project strengthens human rights and economic independence of women in Honduras’ coffee sector. Young women coffee growers receive on-site and online training in women’s empowerment and prevention of child labour. Together with Nestlé, the existing Jóvenes Caficultores knowledge platform is expanded with additional training modules.
"The current vocational education system in Kenya is disconnected from the needs of the private sector. Schools are under-resourced –lacking qualified teachers, using outdated curricula, and missing facilities and equipment. The Hilti Foundation and Swisscontact share a vision to change this by giving the young generation excellent practical education so they can find sustainable jobs and develop prospects for their future. A key requirement for dual, apprenticeship vocational training is for the private sector to invest and play a vital role in the future education system. Together with our partner Swisscontact, we convinced Kenya’s leading electrical and plumbing firms to invest in practical education for their future workforce. 24 Kenyan companies have hired 100 apprentices, who began their apprenticeship in 2022."
Werner Wallner, Managing Director of the Hilti Foundation