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538,912 people have completed vocational education and training across 123 projects. These people have also received support in labour market insertion or to develop opportunities for self-employment.
172,989 people have found a job or started their own business, generating a total 125.9 million Swiss francs in additional income.
7.5 million farmers and SMEs gained access to better products and services aimed at increasing their productivity and competitiveness.
This has resulted in 3.5 million farmers and SMEs generating 675.4 million Swiss francs in additional income. Additionally, 226,199 jobs were created or maintained.
More than 1.7 million farmers, SMEs, and graduates of vocational education programmes have gained access to financial services totalling more than 1.3 billion Swiss francs.
Of these individuals, 51% were women or women-led businesses.
Swisscontact promotes solutions for efficient and sustainable use of resources. As part of environmental development, we have helped reduce, capture or avoided CO₂ emissions by more than 365,402 tonnes and either recycled or reduced 41,376 tonnes of waste.
The percentage of women participating in our vocational education and training projects was 49%. More than half of the total number of people who then found jobs or started their own businesses have been women (50.8%). In our business development projects, the share of women-led agricultural enterprises and non-agricultural SMEs has been steadily over a third (38.9% in 2024).