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HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

Intercooperation and Helvetas merged on 1 July 2011. Our new official name is HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation.

  • Posted by ftwadmin
  • Published: 01-07-2011

HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

Merger of Intercooperation and Helvetas

  • Posted by vsmette
  • Published: 12-04-2011

Merger Helvetas and Intercooperation

Visit our newly established website www.Helvetas-Intercooperation.org.

  • Posted by sroschi
  • Published: 15-02-2011

An important formal step towards the merger of Intercooperation and Helvetas

The Foundation Council of Intercooperation in its meeting held on the 20th January 2011 in Berne has approved the transaction contract with Helvetas.

  • Posted by sroschi
  • Published: 24-01-2011

New Regional Development Programme in Northern Albania

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.

  • Posted by sroschi
  • Published: 18-01-2011

Climate change adaptation in rural areas of India

Intercooperation Social Development India has been awarded two important mandates by GTZ under its programme on “Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India”.

  • Posted by sroschi
  • Published: 07-12-2010

New Backstopping Mandate to the SDC’s Decentralisation and Local Governance Network

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.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 16-11-2010

Result report of the workshop on forest governance in Oaxaca

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

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 04-11-2010

Looking back at fifteen years of forestry sector support in Kyrgyzstan

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.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 14-10-2010

Kathmandu to Jiri: A photo journey

This book consists of 19 pairs of photos that clearly show changes in landscape over time along the way from Kathmandu to Jiri.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 22-09-2010

Reducing risks of natural disasters in Bolivia

SDC has launched the third phase of its Disaster Risk Reduction Programme (DRRP) in Bolivia.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 16-09-2010

How communities manage forests

selected examples from around the world

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 13-09-2010

Disaster risk reduction activities help farmers in Bangladesh to save their rice production

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.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 19-08-2010

The world of microfinance met in Switzerland

From 28 June to 2 July 2010, the annual meeting of the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) took place in Berne, Switzerland.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 26-07-2010

Two Intercooperation experts selected as Lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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.

  • Posted by paubert
  • Published: 24-06-2010
Achieving more together

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.