Die Projektdatenbank mit allen Projekten gewährt Einblicke in die konkrete Tätigkeit der Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (DEZA) und des Staatssekretariats für Wirtschaft (SECO). Sie können die Projekte nach Thema, Land und Projektverantwortung filtern.
In 2015, a natural disaster served as a wake-up call for Pamir Energy (PE) and dramatically demonstrated the need to increase the company's resilience. In parallel, PE needs to improve energy efficiency (EE) in order to meet growing demand. The project therefore aims to strengthen PE's capacity in two focal areas: a) increase resilience in a region highly prone to natural hazards and b) increase EE as cost effective way to meet growing energy demand.
Our contribution into The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX) seeks to foster investments in local currencies to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in developing countries that are sensitive to currency fluctuations. TCX's core investors currently include the governments of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
The Financial Inclusion for Growth Project (FIG) seeks to improve access to credit, payments and savings for individuals and businesses through formal (financial) institutions in a responsible manner. The FIG is implemented by the International Finance Corporation.
To foster sustainable and inclusive growth in the tourism sector in Kyrgyzstan, SECO aims at strenghtening the winter tourism value-chain in selected localities of Kyrgyzstan. This pilot phase addresses challenges by developing and enhancing necessary skills for service providers and by creating a favourable business environment.
The project continues SECO's engagement in the waste water sector in BiH and responds to the challenges of the sector in the Republika Srpska (RS) like enforcement of legal framework, water pollution, coordination between public bodies and skills of the professional staff to manage, operate and maintain the wastewater systems.
The aim of the South Africa YES program is to support the Youth Employment Service, a business led collaboration with the government of South Africa and civil society to address one of the country's main problems: unemployment. YES will support 12 months work experiences for unemployed poor (18-34) over the next three years.
Air conditioning in buildings is one of the main sources of energy consumption in Colombia. One way of making the production of air condictioning cleaner and more efficient is to build Energy Districts. SECO supports Colombia in promoting Energy Districts as an interesting option to improve energy efficiency in cities and lower GHG emissions.
Sustainable investments in municipal infrastructure struggle to keep pace with the fast urbanization in Asia. One main reason is the lack of sound urban projects, attractive to financiers. Cities Development Initiative Asia therefore supports medium sized cities to prepare infrastructure projects and link them to finance.
With the growth of the global economy and the digitalization of today's businesses and society, electrical and electronic equipment has become more affordable and in combination with short usage times of the devices Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE or e-waste) has become the fastest growing waste stream worldwide.
The program aims at accelerating the market uptake of organic farming in Eastern Europe, Albania, Serbia, and Ukraine, by engaging in a partnership with the Swiss organic sourcing industry for the development of organic exports from the beneficiary countries and by fostering sustainable growth of the organic sector in line with IFOAM's vision 3.0.
The IUWASH PLUS Program aims at increasing access to water supply and sanitation services in urban areas in Indonesia. SECOs contribution will support this by improving the operational and financial performance of selected water utilities through reduced Non-Revenue Water and higher Energy Efficiency.
The project supports subnational public financial management (PFM) reforms in specific thematic areas. Based on the good results achieved so far, the second phase envisages a scaling-up of activities to a larger number of municipalities.