Top Highlights 2019
New Cluster for Inclusive Economic Development (IED)
In March, we announced that Focal Point e+i and the Competence Center for Engagement with the Private Sector (CEP) are moving closer, now building the cluster for Inclusive Economic Development (IED).
Read the announcement
Global F2F impact@scale
In May, we organised the Global F2F impact@scale. With over 170 participants from more than 40 countries the event was a great platform to share experiences and get inspired!
Event page
Online discussions
In the months after the F2F event, the discussions were further deepend by our network members during so called flashes of inspirations on our online discussion groups (DGroups).
Learn how to join our network to be part of the discussion.
EPS Highlights 2019
Launch of EPS shareweb
At begining of 2019, the Competence Center for Engagement with the Private Sector (CEP) launced its own EPS shareweb.
Introduction of the EPS100 workshop
To equip SDC employees with the right tools and concrete expertise about engagement with the private sector, the CEP introduced the multi-day workshop EPS100.
Implementation of the Format Finder
The CEP supports you by portraying the most common formats an EPS project can take and guides you to find the right one for your project. The format finder is a source of inspiration how to structure you EPS project.
PSD Highlights 2019
Thematical Working Aid on Leave no one behind
Leave no one behind (LNOB) is the central pledge of the 2030 Agenda, recognizing the need to combat poverty and inequalities. SDC has elaborated a thematical working aid for e+i, additional to the SDC guidance on leaving no one behind, which is a normative document for all SDC staff.
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Updated tool: Monitoring and Measuring Results in Private Sector Development
The paper helps SDC program managers to enable implementing partners to design, apply, and benefit from a monitoring and results measurement system that enables learning and reporting credible results and that complies with the DCED Standard for Results Measurement.
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VSD Highlights 2019
Additional Guidance for VSD projects
Based on manyfold feedback, the we revised the Typology of VSD interventions. The paper aims to support SDC operations in defining the orientation of their VSD interventions, in selecting the right partners, and thus in managing their projects and project portfolios in line with the relevant strategies and standards.
Based on this VSD Typology the Working Aid on Common Outcome Indicators (COI) for VSD projects have been revised, too. The COI are intended to make it easier for programmes to measure and report on their results in a credible way and on that basis support the steering and promote learning across SDC.
Updated and translated VSD introduction
We've updated our introduction for VET practitioners in development cooperation who want to better understand and analyse how VET systems function and how their different elements interrelate. Precisely, we've added a second part which focuses on the topics VET and the labour market, VET and the education system and VET and other relevant policy areas.
In addition, a French version was also published.
English version
Version française
ICT 4 VET Webinar
To support interested practitioners and policy makers launching or improving technolog enhanced learing offers, the VSD Team of the Focal Point e+i - partly in cooperation with the Focal Point Education - commissioned the Swiss Educational Innovation Network to hold a webinar series.
FSD Highlights 2019
Guidance sheet on Women’s Financial Inclusion
Back in November 2017 the e+i and the Gender network decided to capitalize their experience on women’s financial inclusion. Out of this process a guidance sheet has been published. It outlines key issues regarding women’s financial inclusion (WFI) and how these can be integrated in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of cooperation strategies and project interventions.
