A Planning Workshop was held for recipients of the SEEP Network global grants for Urban Value Chain Development from 27 April to 1 May. Mercy Corps, Swisscontact, PUPUK and Micra are the consortium members implementing the value chain work in the Tofu and Tempe sectors of greater Jakarta. Mary McVay, Aly Miehlbradt and Sonali Chowdhury from SEEP Washington provided inputs. The workshop also had participants from similar programmes in Kenya and India.
Ms. Beatrice Maser Mallor, Ambassador and Delegate of the Swiss Government for Trade Agreements – State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) – visited Swisscontact on 6 May 2009. She was accompanied by Mr. Jurg Schnieder from Seco and Ms. Sonja Huerlimann from the Swiss Embassy. Discussions focused on future activities in the context of SECO having Indonesia as a priority country for cooperation.
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 […]