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These are our projects

The project is at the centre of our work. Every project is different. Yet we always have one goal: to offer our customers an exceptionally good service. On our website, you can find some examples of our projects. (For a complete list of references, please visit the website in German.)

  • Angebot: Erhebungen und Befragungen, Literaturanalysen
  • Angebot2: -
  • Angebot3: -
  • Projekte: Umwelt

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development's Business Environment Working Group (BEWG) commissioned BSS to conduct a study to gain a better understanding of the ways business environment reforms can ameliorate labour productivity; and to identify new and emerging (best) practices and policies in this field.

  • Clients: Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
  • Methods: Literature review, data and project document analysis, interviews, case studies
  • Time period: September 2016 to February 2017
  • Services and products: Evaluation report, briefing note

Our research finds that labour productivity, a key component of development, is influenced by a range of factors, the most important ones being training, innovation, employee engagement, incentives as well as health and safety within in the workplace. Furthermore, the analysis of project documentation selected by the BEWG members as "good practice" revealed, on the one hand, that tailored interventions, solid partnerships with key market actors and applying market system development approaches are among the success factors in donors' endeavours to improve labour productivity. On the other, insufficient access to beneficiaries, low trust levels among market players and the difficulty of up scaling and influencing policymaking are identified as constraints.

 

Mid-term evaluation of the Addis Tax Initiative

The Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) is an international tax initiative that aims at contributing to the financing of the 17 goals of the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The initiative was launched in 2015. 

Emission Reductions and CDM Projects in India

Commissioned by the UNIDO and SECO and in cooperation with local partners, BSS created a clean development mechanism (CDM) baseline and monitoring methodology for the manufacturing of benzoic acid derivatives and spent acid recovery in India.

Research for Development

With project financing of the SNSF and SDC and within the scope of the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d- programme), BSS is providing backstopping support to the University of Teacher Education Zurich in the implementation of an international research project.

Advisory support on the integration of work-based learning models in Albania's VET system

The United Nations Development Programme in Albania commissioned BSS to provide advisory support for its Skills Development for Employment (SD4E) Programme, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Coordination.

External evaluation of the Skills for Jobs Project Bosnia and Herzegovina 

The evaluation aims to support the strategic orientation as well as assess the progress and performance of the second phase of the SDC's Skills for Jobs Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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