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
2017
These are the group works done by the master students participating in the course «Practical Project on Development Cooperation» in 2017.
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
Boost Africa Initiative
This paper takes a closer look at the Boost Africa Initiative, a joint project by the AfDB and the EIB, that wants to boost entrepreneurship in Africa through a three-pillared blended finance approach…. Read & Download studies
Die Herausforderungen des Kakaosektors
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der vom Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft erarbeiteten Schweizer Plattform für einen nachhaltigen Kakao. Dabei werden in einem ersten Schritt die bestehenden Problematiken und Missstände im Zusammenhang mit der Kakaoproduktion aufgezeigt sowie bereits existierenden Projekte und Initiativen zur Verbesserung der Situation betrachtet…. Read & Download studies