Intercooperation and Helvetas merged on 1 July 2011. Our new official name is HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation.
Merger of Intercooperation and Helvetas
Visit our newly established website www.Helvetas-Intercooperation.org.
The Foundation Council of Intercooperation in its meeting held on the 20th January 2011 in Berne has approved the transaction contract with Helvetas.
A consortium of Intercooperation, ÖAR Regionalberatung (Austria) and co-plan (Albania) has been selected by SDC and ADA to implement a new Regional Development Programme in Northern Albania. The project is starting in January 2011 a four year phase, with a budget of 6 mio CHF.
Intercooperation Social Development India has been awarded two important mandates by GTZ under its programme on “Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India”.
Together with its partner institution, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, Intercooperation has a new backstopping mandate to SDC’s Decentralisation and Local Governance (DLGN) Network.
The workshop on forest governance, decentralisation and REDD+ in Latin America and the Caribbean is a country-led initiative in support of UNFF by the governments of Mexico and Switzerland. It took place in Oaxaca, Mexico 31 August - 3 September 2010
Despite some turbulent political times in Kyrgyzstan, the KIRFOR programme (Kyrgyz-Swiss Forestry Support Programme) has managed to foster favorable conditions for the sustainable development of the country's forest sector.
This book consists of 19 pairs of photos that clearly show changes in landscape over time along the way from Kathmandu to Jiri.
SDC has launched the third phase of its Disaster Risk Reduction Programme (DRRP) in Bolivia.
selected examples from around the world
Thanks to early rice varieties and raising of embankments, farmers could harvest most of their rice production before the land submerged due to early flash floods.
From 28 June to 2 July 2010, the annual meeting of the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) took place in Berne, Switzerland.
The IPCC is the leading body for the assessment of climate change to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Helvetas and Intercooperation entered a strategic partnership in 2008. Within the next 12 months, they will become one organisation under the name of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation.