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Swisscontact – Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation is a Swiss non-profit-organisation, which carries out projects aiming at reducing poverty in developing and transition countries by private sector development. It has been founded in 1959 as a politically and denominationally neutral organisation and has 45 employees in Switzerland and approximately 900 staff abroad. The main fields of activity are fostering skills development, small and medium enterprises, financial services and ressource efficiency. == History == The aim of all of Swisscontact's activities is to reduce poverty by private sector development.〔http://www.swisscontact.org/en/private-sector-development.html〕 Swisscontact was founded in 1959 under the name of Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation by leading figures from the Swiss business world, universities and politics. The first initiative came from Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010), who was of the opinion "that because of iths wealth and as country without a colonial past, Switzerland should play an important role in development aid".〔Franziska Diener: Die Schweizerische Stiftung für technische Entwicklungshilfe (Swisscontact) 1956 – 1971. p. 19.〕 In the 1960s, Swisscontact set up vocational training colleges in Africa, Asia and Latin America and provided further training for the instructors at these colleges. This was followed in the 1980s by the launch of schemes aimed at promoting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), after graduates from the vocational training colleges had said that there was an urgent need for expert advice when setting up businesses. It was also evident that SMEs were experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining commercial and investment credits. As a result, the organization introduced programmes favouring the creation of micro-finance institutions. After training car mechanics, Swisscontact also went on to develop integral solutions for preventing air pollution. The organization was renamed in 1972, but retained its old title as a supplement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swisscontact」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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