Ms. Rhonda Zygocki, the Vice President Public and Government Affair from Chevron headquarters, United States, visited the Swisscontact Banda Aceh Office on 28 August 2008. She was accompanied by Nadeem Anwar Manager of Corporate Affair and a local delegation. They were briefed on Swisscontact-SPAN ongoing activities by the Country Director, Mr. Peter Bissegger and Project Manager, Mr. Manfred Borer. The delegation also visited a few beneficiaries in Banda Aceh which were supported through the SPAN Start-Up program.
Swisscontact, together with the Economic Development and Financing Facility (EDFF) have launched a new program, called Peningkatan Ekonomi Kakao Aceh (PEKA). Addressing the development of the cocoa sub-sector in the Aceh province, this program will reach out into five selected districts and 12.500 cocoa farmers throughout the province.
Prior to the program’s implementation, the MoU between […]
H.E. Mr. Heinz Edmund Walker, the new Swiss Ambassador, and Mr. Joerg Schneider representative of SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) visited Swisscontact on February 9th 2010. The Regional Director for SE Asia, Mr. Peter Bissegger gave a briefing on Swisscontact activities and achievements.
Five years after the tsunami, SPAN comes to an end in December 2009. At the occasion of the project phase-out, Swisscontact invited the Government and development partners to a seminar on ‘Business Recovery in Aceh’ that took place in Jakarta on the 17th of November 2009. The purpose of the event was to share results […]
