SwissContact is a foundation focused on international development cooperation. It has been present in Albania since 1993 with projects in vocational training, labour market integration and economic development.
SwissContact has launched the C4EE Project, whose overall goal is to integrate young people (45-50% women) from marginalized groups or migrate to the sustainable labour market through appropriate training to access jobs . By teaching them basic skills, participants in training cycles will be equipped with the skills to make a living and be active participants in society. SwissContact is trying to support new and existing entrepreneurs (also trainees) by connecting them with Microfinance Institutions to fund their self-employment activities. The funding project will start in 2020 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.
Agro & Social Fund and Swisscontact collaboration objectives:
- Develop one or more products tailored to the marginalized categories and increase financial inclusion for this group.
- To enable small entrepreneurs (including young people trained) from different sectors to apply for loans.
- Increase the overall turnover of successful small enterprises leading to increased revenue and changing small entrepreneur’s livelihoods and job creation.
- Create a market platform to bring the private sector and young entrepreneurs together.
- Through the cooperation that SwisContact has with the Labor Offices in most cities of Albania, and the relations that it is creating with Agro & Social Fund, it will be possible to present the interested groups with funding sources and products created especially for them.
- Target group / potential clients.
- New businesses.
- Existing businesses that want to expand their business and create new jobs and improve living conditions.
