To follow the introductions and lectures of the course 2018 please read here the presentations (unfortunately only in German)… Read & Download studies
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Investitionsrisikogarantie durch den Bund
Verschiedene Szenarien zur Unterstützung und Anreizschaffung für privatwirtschaftliche Investitionen in fragile Länder Unter Beachtung der Fragestellung aus der Motion von Nationalrat Béglé ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit (1) die aktuelle Versicherungssituation für politische Risiken im Bereich von Investitionsgarantien auf nationaler und internationaler und im öffentlichen als auch privaten Sektor aufzuzeigen; (2) infolge der daraus resultierenden […]
Vocational Skills Development – Best practices and breakthrough innovations
Abstract This paper presents seven different social enterprises located in Southern and Eastern Africa, India and Latin America. All chosen projects distinguish themselves through an innovative business approach and provide vocational skills development services to people from a disadvantaged background. An in-depth analysis of every project’s business model allows the identification of several success elements, […]
Impact Potential of Incubators for Employment and Income Creation
An analysis of the potential of incubators as a part of the development strategy of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in the SENAP region with a special focus on Tunisia, Tanzania, Zambia and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Summary “Incubators and their cousins, accelerators, provide hands-on training and mentoring, and often a physical space, […]
Water Stewardship
Water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and indispensable for human health and well-being. The concept of “Water Stewardship” emphasizes collective accountability and bottom-up collective action by water users towards a sustainable and responsible management of water resources…. Read & Download studies
Sustainable Water Supply Under Adverse Conditions
This paper aims at analyzing what the private sector can contribute to overcome the large flows of refugees. Regarding this objective, the paper focuses on the sustainable water supply in Lebanon…. Read & Download studies
Sustainability 4.0 and Impact Readiness
How to promote true Sustainability and Impact Readiness? Through partnerships with the private sector it is possible to bundle public and private resources, expertise and know-how…. Read & Download studies
Lighthouse projects as a source of innovation
Achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) will require joint efforts between public and private sector. This analysis looks at two major programs of SDC that can be models for cooperation with the private sector… Read & Download studies
Blended Finance
In order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, $2.5 trillion of additional financing is needed every year. By reviewing the most prominent instruments of blended finance, demonstrating their potential as well as addressing the associated risks, this paper provides a guideline for donors and recipients…. Read & Download studies
Product development partnerships
Product development partnerships (PDPs) have become an important tool in addressing the problem of market failure within the area of drug development for poverty-related neglected diseases (PRNDs)…. Read & Download studies
Social and Economic Integration of Refugees in the Region of their Origin
This paper aims to answer the following question: How can the great amount of refugees residing in the region of their origin be socially and economically better integrated without causing resentment and fear within the local population? The case of Jordan…. Read & Download studies
Vocational Skills Development
This paper develops a quality and inclusive system for Vocational Skills Development (VSD). Therefore, it analyses current policies of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and differentiates between aid for the poor and aid for innovation…. Read & Download studies
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) Potential for Development Cooperation?
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) programs have proven to be an effective tool to fight poverty with an approach based on monetary incentives rewarding certain behaviour. This paper looks at how different CCT programs in Latin America work, and how they fare in terms of evaluation…. Read & Download studies
Appropriate legal structures for social enterprises
This research paper addresses the question what legal forms overcome the specific challenges of a Social Enterprise the most? The research design is organized in an empirical manner and analyses five specific legal frameworks worldwide according to nine criteria that were developed corresponding the latest research and literature…. Read & Download studies
Scaling up social businesses
This paper attempts to give advice for the scaling up of social enterprises. The project is twofold: At first a theoretical overview of growth is introduced; then the focus shifts to concrete challenges for growth of social businesses…. Read & Download studies
Berufsbildung: Case Study Employment Fund Nepal
Berufsbildung gilt als Antwort für viele Probleme: Reduktion von Armut, Konflikten und Arbeitslosigkeit, Steigerung Selbstwertgefühl, Empowerment, etc. Der Employment Fund in Nepal gilt als besonders innovatives Beispiel…. Read & Download studies
Wirkungsmessung im Bereich Financial Education
Noch immer haben viele Millionen Menschen weltweit keinen Zugang zu Finanzdienstleistungen. Bessere Kenntnis über Begriffe und Produkte wie Kredit, Sparen, Zinsen, Versicherungen können Armut reduzieren, Kundenschutz verbessern, aber eben auch den Verkauf von kundenorientierten neuen Finanzdienstleistungen, wie Versicherungen und mobilen Zahlungsverkehr, erleichtern…. Read & Download studies
Micro-Franchising: A viable and sustainable business model for the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency?
The popularity of the micro-franchising theory among practitioners in the world of international development as a development tool is steadily increasing. Through the promotion of sustainable forms of entrepreneurship at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP), it is seen as a functioning development tool that could lift people out of poverty…. Read & Download studies
Ernährungssicherheit und Finanzspekulation
Ist die Initiative der schweizerischen JUSOs ein Beitrag, um die Ernährungssicherheit zu verbessern?
Hintergrund: Stimmt die Aussage, dass Spekulation zu Hunger führt und ist es möglich, dass man die Nahrungsmittelspekulation unterbinden kann? Wie sollte sich die DEZA zu diesem Thema positionieren? Spezielle Ausrichtung auf Lateinamerika.
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Migration – eine entwicklungspolitische Perspektive
Eine Studie der Denkfabrik “Foraus” zeigt auf, dass mit Entwicklungshilfe keine direkte Auswirkung zur Reduzierung der Migration aus dem Süden erzielt werden kann und dies hat in der öffentlichen Debatte zu billigen Schlussfolgerungen geführt, dass die Entwicklungshilfe sogar das Migrationsproblem verschärfe…. Read & Download studies
The Transformation of Development Cooperation from Rome to Busan
Aid-effectiveness: von der Paris Declaration zu Busan: Ist die These von der lokalen “ownership” ein wirklich gangbarer Weg oder folgen die Geber einfach einem Gebot der “political correctness”? Seit der Paris Declaration sind einige Maengel an den Tag getreten…. Read & Download studies
Participatory Video as a New Method for Measuring and Generating Empowerment
This paper explores the potential of participatory video for the measurement of empowerment. It is meant to be an evaluation of the potential, but also the possible threats of using PV as a tool to measure empowerment…. Read & Download studies
Food Security: The New Vision for Agriculture
Das WEF hat mit der “New Vision for Agriculture” einen Weg zu nachhaltiger und produktiver Landwirtschaft aufgezeigt. Haben die NGOs Recht mit ihrer Kritik an dieser Vision?… Read & Download studies
Why is Bangladesh successful in it’s fight against poverty?
The present study addresses the progress made in the area of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh and analyzes the reasons for the success. In order to better capture the complexity of this process, we have developed a theoretical model. … Read & Download studies
The Indian Microfinance Crisis
Reasons for the present micro-finance crisis in India – how much of it is politics and how much is due to a real conflict of interest between going to scale and focus on poverty?… Read & Download studies
Taking the Bus Out of Poverty – Inclusive business
How realistic is the claim that the private sector can reduce poverty by involving poor people in inclusive businesses? Are large multinational corporations really able to re-invent their business models to make them inclusive and serve the poor?… Read & Download studies
Haiti after the Disaster
This weak socio-economic and political situation in Haiti has aggravated the destruction and the losses of the devastating earthquake, which stroke Haiti on the 12th January 2011 with a magnitude of 7.0. Lessons learned from evaluations, consequences and recommendations for the future of Swiss Humanitarian Aid…. Read & Download studies
Food Security – Possibilities within and beyond the WTO-Framework
How to reduce national vulnerability in the food sector – what possibilities exist within the WTO framework and beyond?… Read & Download studies
The Water Footprint – A Case Study of Water Management in Colombia
Is the „water-footprint“ a suitable instrument and can it contribute to a solution for the global water … Read & Download studies
Does development aid have to be stopped?
A calm response to Moyo’s stimulating and provoking theses Formulate an argumentation how SDC or a multilateral organization as a reaction to the stimulating and provoking theses of Dambisa Moyo. Provocative and stimulating; these are the appropriate adjectives to describe the theses presented in Dambisa Moyo’s „Dead Aid – Why Aid Is Not Working and […]
Food security – are higher food prices not an incentive for small farmers?
Rising food prices are often associated with increased hunger – are higher prices not an incentive for farmers to produce more food? What structural framework conditions (social, political) do farmers need to respond to such incentives?… Read & Download studies
Implications of the current financial and economic crisis to East and West Africa
Ist es tatsächlich so, dass Afrika wenig betroffen ist, wie einige sagen? Was kann die DEZA tun, um die negativen Effekte zu lindern?
Is it really so that Africa is less affected by the financial crisis? What can SDC do to mitigate the negative effects?
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The State as an Obstacle to Development?
Welche Rolle soll der Staat in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit spielen und wann wird er zu einem Entwicklungshemmnis? Welche Haltung sollte die DEZA ordnungspolitisch einnehmen?
Which role should the State play in development cooperation and when does the State become a constraint for development? What position should SDC take when it comes to the role of the State?… Read & Download studies
The image of the World bank
Analyse der Wahrnehmung der Internationalen Finanzinstitutionen (IFIs, namentlich der Entwicklungsbanken) in der Schweiz, besonders bei den NGOs, dem Parlament und den Medien.
In order to find out how the World Bank is perceived we carried out a series of surveys targeting different stakeholder groups. We confronted people from the streets, students, experts, media representatives and exponents of Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs)…. Read & Download studies
Entwicklungsstrategie für einen unabhängigen Kosovo
Welche Entwicklungsstrategien sind geeignet, die Überwindung der hohen Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut zu erreichen? Welche Beiträge kann die Schweiz leisten? Ist ein unabhängiger Staat die Lösung dafür?… Read & Download studies
The economy behind the wall
Was sind die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkung der politischen Situation, die zu Untätigkeit und Unvermögen führt, einer wirtschaftlichen Tätigkeit nachzugehen oder zu importieren oder zu exportieren.
What are the economic consequences of the political situation of Palestine with its “economy behind the wall” that leads to unemployment, and prevents people from undertaking meaningful economic activities and to freely export and import. The study proposes to support IT industries that can overcome the wall…. Read & Download studies