Thematic Capitalisations
As part of the capitalisation of SDC's programme experience in Latin America, knowledge products have been developed in cooperation with the country offices and networks in the areas of economy and education, gender, disaster risk reduction and culture.
Economy and Education
Capitalisation Exercise on Technical and Vocational Training Systems in Latin America: Brief
The Brief of SDC’s knowledge-sharing initiative about its Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) projects in Latin America is now available. This report presents findings on the impact and sustainability of TVET interventions at the systemic level using examples from Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and overall lessons learned from the capitalisation process in Latin America.
How to Attract Private Investment for Social Impact and Social Entrepreneurship
The report analyses two of SDC’s flagship private sector engagement programmes: Promoting Social Entrepreneurship (PES) and Social Impact Incentives for scaling high-impact Social Enterprises (SIINC). How can SDC strengthen the social entrepreneurship ecosystem and contribute at the same to poverty alleviation? How can SDC incentivise private sector investment to bring high-impact social enterprises to scale? Take a look at the experiences and lessons gained by two SDC-supported programmes in Latin America.
Gender
5 Gender topics from 6 Latin American countries: In 2023, the Latin America & Caribbean region has bridged 72.6% of its gender gap. According to the WEF Global Gender Gap Report, based on the current pace of progress, Latin America and the Caribbean will close the gap in 67 years. SDC programmes have contributed to this progress. While many challenges remain, the documented experiences provide key insights into what works, what doesn’t and why, continuing to add value and inform gender equality and women’s rights interventions of SDC, its partners and other actors, in the region and beyond. The Compendium aims to contribute to Switzerland’s commitments to Gender Equality & Women’s Rights, and SDC’s institutional expertise on a range of gender & women’s rights topics.
Disaster Risk Reduction
Culture
Arts and Culture are an Engine for Social Change
The review of SDC’s cultural programmes in Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua concludes that SDC’s investment in culture has been particularly valuable in building capacity of cultural actors and in extending Swiss Cooperation to partners and beneficiaries not otherwise reached. It shows that cultural programmes contribute to Swiss development goals, notably in gender equality, human rights, democratic norms, social cohesion and freedom of expression. They strengthen SDC’s high reputation particularly among those partners, where its engagement with culture is unusual. Cultural work has also great diversification potential for SDC and Diplomatic staff who are not primarily concerned with culture.
Key Findings of the Capitalisation of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean for SDC
Urbanisation
Development and humanitarian aid is influenced by urbanization, and SDCs interventions in turn influence and shape the urbanisation process. Urbanisation is not just a sector, a transversal topic, or a working area; it is a universal context that impacts and alters SDC’s work, shaping its nature, outcomes and impact. Poverty is increasingly an urban phenomenon and SDC in the last decade has gained important insights on how to work in urbanising settings. The report on the added value of SDC in urbanising context, the toolbox for urbanization sensitive programming and different SDC project examples contribute to further improvement of SDCS work in an urbanising world.