Historic impact apitalisation of SDC’s bilateral cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean
The project provides a historical background of SDCs bilateral development cooperation in each country and region by recording what has been done and reporting on the main results achieved. It examines SDCs contribution to poverty reduction and other relevant country development outcomes, such as the reduction of inequalities, and captures the effectiveness and, in particular, the impact and sustainability of the development approaches and methodologies applied by SDC and its partners over the decades. It also describes how Swiss bilateral cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean has evolved over time in terms of sectors, instruments, approaches and modalities, thus providing a brief overview of the evolution of cooperation and how it has adapted to the changing conditions and contexts in Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1960s. It also identifies relevant lessons that will be, on the one hand available to partner governments and national and international partners who may take over some of SDCs projects, programs or approaches (phasing over), or who simply remain engaged in Latin America and the Caribbean. On the other hand, it aims to distill sectoral and institutional lessons that remain relevant for SDC today and in the future in other regions. In addition, it will generate material for communicating SDCs historical results, in order to tell the public and political leaders in Switzerland and LAC the story of Switzerlands bilateral development cooperation with LAC from a non-evaluative perspective.
