Swisscontact

Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation

Samuel Bon
CEO and Executive Director

Swisscontact was established in 1959 as an

independent operating foundation.
Annual Revenue: $70M

North American Donors:

USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Ford Foundation, Peru Opportunity Fund
Chevron, PepsiCo
The MasterCard Foundation

Mission
Swisscontact promotes economic, social and
ecological development.
We achieve our mission by creating opportunities
for people seeking to improve their living
conditions and livelihoods through their own
initiatives and integrating them into local
commercial life.

32 Countries

Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Colombia
Bolivia
Ecuador
Peru

Tunisia
Morocco

Macedonia
Serbia, Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo
Nepal

Bangladesh
Mali Niger
Burkina Faso
Tanzania
Bnin
Kenya
Rwanda
Uganda
Mozambique
South Africa

Myanmar
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Indonesia

920
105

Employees
Projects

Swisscontacts Private Sector Development:

Four complementary intervention areas

Skills Development

SME Promotion

Financial Services

Resource efficiency

Enabling labor market

access and creating the
basis for employment and
income generation

Supporting local
entrepreneurship to
strengthen its
competitiveness

Facilitating access to local

financial services such as
credit, savings, leasing,
and insurance products

Promoting efficient
resource use, as well as
clean air and sustainable
waste management
practices

22.09.2015

Financial Inclusion

Regulatory framework
Technologies and
infrastructure
Financial products and
services
Financial literacy

22.09.2015

Financial Services: Innovation + proof of concept

Microleasing
Supported development of Juhudi Kilimo (Kenya)
Launched six-country replication in East Africa and Latin America

Mavuno Groups
Supporting capacity of 1000+ savings groups, primarily women,
in East Africa

Financing cocoa farmers

Developing unique credit products to support cocoa producers
in Indonesia

Remittances
Early leader in expanding financial inclusion through the
remittances platform
22.09.2015

We create opportunities
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