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Successfully integrating young adults into the working world (C4EE)

The overall goal of C4EE (Coaching for employment and entrepreneurship) is to integrate 1 900 young people (45% women) with marginalised or migrating backgrounds into the...

High-quality healthcare services in rural areas ASTHA

In Bangladesh, around 47 million people still live below the poverty line. In the future, too, the significant lack of high-quality and affordable healthcare services as well...

Sarathi – Progress through Financial Inclusion

The Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry of Bangladesh is among the largest sectors within the country’s economy, employing around 4.5 million workers and with a predominantly...

Bénin: Improving quality of life for smallholder farmer families by fostering market dynamics

The objective of this project is to strengthen value chains in select sectors by applying an Inclusive Markets approach, thereby improving quality of life and increasing...

Local Economic Development - PADC

Swisscontact's local economic development project creates jobs and income and contributes to poverty reduction in seven rural communities in Burkina Faso.

The challenges...

Mekong Inclusive Growth and Innovation Programme (MIGIP)

Laos and Cambodia still number among the world’s least developed countries.  A third of the population lives below the poverty level. Against this background, tourism has...

Colombia: Safe, healthy, and sustainable construction in poor neighbourhoods (Construya)

Three quarters of all Colombians reside in cities, many in densely populated and illegally constructed poor neighbourhoods. Many residents have built their homes on their own...

New market opportunities for smallholder farmers in the coffee and cocoa sectors "Emprende"

A large percentage of the Ecuadoran rural population lives in poverty and comprises mostly smallholder farmers. Their coffee and cocoa harvests are often very low. Soil...

Improving small-scale beekeepers‘ access to global markets (FOCAPIS)

Today's global mar­ket de­mand on honey is 518 000 tons, es­pe­cially the Eu­ro­pean Union is an im­por­tant dri­ver for honey pro­duc­tion in Cen­tral Amer­ica. The...

Nuevas Oportunidades: Productive Reintegration of Returning Migrants

The project seeks the productive reintegration of returning migrants through the introduction of certification of competences in El Salvador and eventually in the whole...

Secure income for young people thanks to market-oriented vocational training

Disadvantaged young adults will be able to successfully enter professional life through solid, high-quality training. In this way they will generate income for themselves and...

Inclusive Finance Programme (IFP)

Although the 2018 IMF Financial Access Survey confirms a positive trend in access to financial products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa, many people are still excluded...

Economically strong regions through sustainable tourism

The objective of the project is to introduce new models for promoting localities that involve the social, environmental, and economic needs of local populations while...

Skills to Build «S2B»

Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. The country is in a complex economic and political crisis and is known to suffer from one of the weakest educational...

Practical vocational training helps young people enter professional life (YEP)

Since the end of the war in 2006 Nepal is going through a challenging peace-making and civil reconstruction process. The severe earthquake of 2015 threw the country back...

Peru: Promotion of Safe, Sound and Sustainable Construction Practices in Vulnerable Urban Areas (Construya)

Today, over 16 million people live in settlements that are highly exposed to natural disasters in one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Most houses in these...

Inclusive Markets for Uganda - Economically successful beekeepers and cocoa farmers

Despite steady economic growth over the last 20 years, Uganda remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Currently, 33% of the population lives on less than...

Local Skills Development for Youth (LSDY)

According to Uganda’s Development Plan for 2015-2016, more than half of the country’s population is unemployed. In the project region alone (approx. 10% of Uganda), we assume...