Helvetas at a glance 2014 EN

Haiti

Ethiopia

Tanzania

Madagascar

Sri Lanka

Vietnam

MyanmarBhutan

KyrgyzstanArmenia

GeorgiaMacedonia Kosovo

Tadjikistan

Laos

BeninNicaragua

Bolivia

HondurasGuatemala Mali

India

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Afghanistan

Albania

Nepal

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Burkina Faso

Mozambique

Niger

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As one of the major development organisations in Switzerland, HELVETAS Swiss Intercoopera-tion is engaged in 33 of the world’s poorest countries to bring about sustainable improve-ments in the living conditions of disadvantaged people.

Photos: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Serge R.T. Boya, Jens Engeli, Aline Gsell, Sandra Kuenzle, Michele Limina, Isabella Medici, Simon B. Opladen, Flurina Rothenberger, Meinrad Schade, Kurt Schneider, Stefan Stolle, Daniel Valenghi, Pia Zanetti. Printed by Druckerei Kyburz AG.

About HELVETAS Swiss IntercooperationHELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is a development organisation anchored in Switzerland. Our vision is a just world in which all men and women determine the course of their lives in dignity and security, using environmental resources in a sustainable manner. As a politically and denomination-ally neutral association, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is supported by around 100,000 members and sponsors, as well as 12 regional groups of volunteers. Our team comprises more than 1210 local and 55 international employees (mainly Swiss) engaged in 33 partner countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. A total of 143 men and women work at the Berne and Zurich offices as well as at the Lausanne and Balerna branch of-fices. They co-ordinate development projects, offer advisory services to governmental and non-governmental organisations, and raise awareness about issues faced by people in developing countries and possible solutions.

Major funders of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation are the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the State Secretariat for the Economy SECO, the Liechtenstein Development Service, the British Department for International Development (DFID), EuropeAid and private donors.

How HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation worksThe objective of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is to help create a fairer world in which the basic needs of all men and women are satisfied and human rights are protected. In order to achieve this goal, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation works at five levels:

Projects. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation develops, supports and implements concrete actions thorugh its projects in the field. These projects are implemented with strong local ownership and participation that guarantee their sustainability. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation supports its partners to build their own capacities to deliver good development outcomes through the work that they do and also trains local authorities to fulfill their responsibilities to ensure continuity of the work.

Advisory Services. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation offers a multidisciplinary team of develop-ment experts. These experts advise private, civil society, government and multilateral organisations regarding their development projects. They train specialists and foster expertise, contributing their skills and knowledge to international networks.

Information and awareness raising. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation informs the Swiss public about its own work and raises awareness concerning global injustice and the necessity to stand up for the needs of the world’s poorest, either through political participation or donations.

Fair Trade. In its projects and together with the private sector partners, HELVETAS Swiss Inter-cooperation promotes Fair Trade of products such as cocoa, rice and cotton. Its own FairShop sells organic and ethical goods from developing countries.

Development politics. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation takes a public stance on develop-ment issues within Switzerland and internationally, through its statements, participation in global networks, such as Alliance2015, petitions and as a member of Alliance Sud, the political lobbying body of the major Swiss aid agencies.

The organisational chart of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation can be found on www.helvetas.org

Together for a better worldFarming families making careful use of natural resources and benefiting from new market oppor-tunities. Young people attending schools and vocational course that equip e them for a better life. Small and medium-sized companies that are rooted in their social context. All of these lay the foundations for development. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation helps improve people’s livelihoods in 33 partner countries. Our strategy 2013 to17 places a clear emphasis on removing the barri-ers to development. While maintaining our commitment to providing access to water, we shall further focus on vocational training and fair markets. We promote preventive measures that help marginalised and vulnerable people to be better prepared for cyclones, floods and droughts, and to mitigate the effects of climate change. In tandem with concrete actions at , the grassroots level, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation advocates for policies and actions for poverty erradication. We strengthen the civil society, and support public actors who share our vision, to actively con-tribute to their country’s development.

Melchior LengsfeldExecutive Director of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

As of July 2014

Source of funds 2013 (Total CHF 134,1millions)

1 Income from fundraising 21,3 % 2 Programme contribution from SDC 8,0 % 3 Mandates SDC 47,1 % 4 Project funding from organisations 18,1 % 5 Revenue from advisory services 2,4 % 6 Revenue from Fair Trade 2,5 % 7 Other earnings 0,6 %

Use of funds 2013 (Total CHF 133,8 millions)

1 Africa 24,5 % 2 Asia 32,9 % 3 Latin America/Caribbean 14,4 % 4 Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia 8,7 % 5 Programme coordination and support 1,3 % 6 Expenses on advisory services 3,8 % 7 Expenses on projects in Switzerland 4,2 % 8 Expenses on Fair Trade 2,5 % 9 Head office 3,4 % 10 Fundraising 4,3 %

HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

Weinbergstrasse 22a, PO Box, CH-8021 Zurich Tel. +41 (0)44 368 65 00, Fax +41 (0)44 368 65 80 Maulbeerstrasse 10, PO Box 6724, CH-3001 Berne, Tel. +41 (0)31 385 10 10, Fax +41 (0)31 385 10 09Chemin de Balexert 7-9, CH-1219 Châtelaine, Tel. +41 (0)21 804 58 00, Fax +41 (0)21 804 58 01Via San Gottardo 67, CH-6828 Balerna, Tel. +41 (0)91 820 09 00, Fax +41 (0)91 820 09 01

[email protected], www.helvetas.org

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Ethiopia

Tanzania

Madagascar

Sri Lanka

Vietnam

MyanmarBhutan

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Tadjikistan

Laos

BeninNicaragua

Bolivia


India

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Afghanistan

Albania

Nepal

Equador

Peru

Burkina Faso

Mozambique

Niger

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Bangladesh

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Bangladesh

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Drinking water, roads and energy

Water and Infrastructure

That’s how many people gained access to clean drinking water and/or sanitation thanks to Helvetas in 2013. Another 814,000 people benefited from new or repaired roads and bridges.

In 2010, the UN declared water and sanitation as a human right. Nevertheless, billions of people in developing countries lack access to clean drinking water and sanitation facilities. The conse-quences are fatal: Every day, more than 3000 children under the age of five die from diarrhoea-re-lated illnesses. Therefore, improved water supply, the construction of latrines and accompanying hygiene education, along with advocacy work in favour of fair water policies, are part of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation’s core work. People living in rural areas often have to walk long distances to reach schools, health services and markets. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation builds roads, paths and suspension bridges to give rural people access to education, health and better income. The lack of energy supply is a major obstacle to development. Therefore, HELVETAS Swiss Inter-cooperation promotes sources of renewable energy.

“Children sometimes used to throw up when they drank from the old draw well. We have clean drinking water at the school now. The children also know how important it is to wash their hands. And we have fewer health prob-lems at our school.”

Adjaratou Boukari Bata is a teacher at the Sinendé primary school in Benin

Rural Economy

Lack of land, small and marginal holdings, poor soil fertility, inadequate access to inputs and know-how mean that 842 million people currently suffer from chronic hunger. If peasant families do produce a surplus, they have trouble selling it as markets are often far away. HELVETAS Swiss Intercoop-eration supports men and women to manage their resources better, balancing the needs of the current generation with long term sustainabilityHELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation helps farmers to establish better market linkages, both with local and international Fair Trade buyers. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation also sells Fair Trade products at its own FairShop. By creating incentives for saving and facilitating access to micro-credit, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation enables farmers and small businesses to make small investments to develop their production. By this means, agriculture becomes a force for development.

“Most of us have no land of our own. But since we started using the bed of the Mohana River in the dry sea-son, we, the landless, can sell vegetables too.”

Rupa Chaudhary uses a dry riverbed in the western lowlands of Nepal to grow vegetables

That’s the number of farmers who received agricultural advice and training in 2013 thanks to Helvetas. 351,000 people have been trained in value chain activities.

Nutrition, Fair Trade and business

Environment and Climate Change

Global climate change is threatening people’s livelihoods. Fertile soils, forests and water resourc-es are in decline. People in the South are the worst affected, even though they are least respon-sible for these changes. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation helps people to protect themselves from environmental risks and to develop appropriate cropping systems, and promotes the sustain-able use and conservation of soils, forests and water resources. HELVETAS Swiss Intercoopera-tion works with the people to develop measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation campaigns for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the industri-alised countries and emerging economies that are mainly responsible for climate change. HELVE-TAS Swiss Intercooperation critically monitors Swiss climate policy and its experts are involved in writing the UN’s IPCC report.

“Nowadays we often have to wait for rain for a long time, and when it finally arrives, it sheets it down. We need seed immediately then, so we have to store it in the village.”

Gilberto Tethere facilitated the construction of granaries in the village of Manrasse, Mozambique

That’s the number of women and men who improved their adaptive capacities to cli-mate change thanks to Helvetas. In 2013 391,000 hectares of land were protected or managed sustainably.

Soils, forests and water

Skills Development and Education

School, jobs and income

“My parents used only to grow maize and beans for their own needs. After I com- pleted a Helvetas training course in agri-culture, I started pro-ducing tomatoes on our piece of land. Business is running well, so now I want to double the cropping area.”

Wilson Adolfo Cun Ordon sells tomatoes in Rio Blanco, Guatemala

Governance and Peace

When people are assured that the fruits of their efforts are protected from random encroachment, they will strive to improve their living conditions with energy and creativity. That’s why HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation works towards a society in which all people have equal opportunities, can express their opinions freely and participate in democratic decision-making processes. Individuals and civil society are empowered to claim their fundamental rights. HELVETAS Swiss Intercoop-eration also helps authorities to fulfil their responsibilities and create spaces for citizens to engage with the state and claim their rights, e.g. through participative planning, reliable provision of ser-vices and transparent taxation. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation is committed to peaceful con-flict resolution. With cultural projects, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation encourages dialogue between cultures through its projects and also promotes political awareness.

“The women and girls in my village are still at a disadvantage. For example, they are often married off early and can’t go to school. In the workshop Iattended, it was all about equal rights for men and women – and that gave me courage. Now I would like to study and become a teacher.”

Ban Mui Kieu, student in Thai Hoc, Vietnam, notices positive changes in her village

That’s the number of people who attended a course or event about decentralised structures, democracy or local administra-tion in 2013 thanks to Helvetas. 1,892 par-tici-pative development plans were drawn up at the village, district or provincial level.

Community, human rights and culture

Low school enrolment rates and high rates of illitarecy are typical in most developing countries. Should young people manage to complete their schooling, they are faced with a labour market offering no job opportunities. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation provides young adults from rural areas with customised vocational training in agriculture or in manual and technical professions. Expert advice and access to micro-credit help them to establish small businesses and promote an entrepreneurial attitude. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation also campaigns for better basic edu-cation and funds teacher training and the development of relevant teaching materials. Special at-tention is paid to education and skill building among girls and women.

That’s the number pupils who partici-pated in basic education in 2013 thanks to Helvetas. 72,000 young people at-tended a vocational training in 2013.


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Haiti

Ethiopia

Tanzania

Madagascar

Sri Lanka

Vietnam

MyanmarBhutan

KyrgyzstanArmenia


Tadjikistan

Laos

BeninNicaragua

Bolivia


India

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Afghanistan

Albania

Nepal

Equador

Peru

Burkina Faso

Mozambique

Niger

Bosnia-Herzegovina

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As of July 2014









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