Economic Development and Resilience

VET fair in Chisinau
VET fair in Chisinau © GIZ Moldova

Supported projects foster economic development and resilience by enhancing skills and promoting employment and income opportunities. Switzerland collaborates with ministries and private sector representatives to promote the framework conditions and skills relevant to the labour market and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Further areas of engagement include improving access to finance and helping smallholder farmers and SMEs cope with the consequences of the war inagainst Ukraine. Special emphasis is placed on the economic empowerment of women and the integration of refugees from Ukraine into the Moldovan labour market.

Unemployment and underemployment remain the most serious development problems facing partner countries of the SDC. Only if people have access to productive, reasonably paid employment that enables them to earn an income, can global poverty be sustainably reduced and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) be achieved.

The SDC's worldwide engagement