Income
With its holistic approach, Caritas Switzerland helps people to escape from poverty and strengthen their resilience. To achieve this, Caritas Switzerland sets two priorities: Market system development, and employment and capabilities.
Participation in markets can help poor people like smallholder families, small entrepreneurs and vulnerable workers to increase their income through increased sales, cost reduction and better working conditions. At the same time, successful integration into market systems depends not only on the capacities of the producers or other actors, but also on many additional factors and rules that shape and influence the market system. Caritas Switzerland complements market analyses with socio-economic analyses and environmental and climate surveys to ensure socially, ecologically and economically meaningful and sustainable practices.
Since the ability to work offers the greatest potential for people in poverty to improve their situation, decent employment opportunities
are of key importance in combating poverty. With the focus on employment and capabilities, Caritas Switzerland concentrates on the development of professional skills. The vulnerable part of the population who do not have a vocational qualification or cannot find suitable employment, in particular young people, women, minorities or the rural population in general, is thus enabled to (re)enter the world of work and helped to successfully compete in the labour market. Skills that are in demand in the labour market are strengthened in vocational training and further training programmes, enhancing jobseekers’ chances of employment.
Haiti is in a deep political, economic and humanitarian crisis. In 2021, this intensified with the assassination of President Moïse, the earthquake of 14 August 2021 and tropical storm Grace. The south was particularly hard hit by this.
Haiti is in a deep political, economic and humanitarian crisis. In 2021, this intensified with the assassination of President Moïse, the earthquake of 14 August 2021 and tropical storm Grace. The south was particularly hard hit by this.
Women, young people (especially in rural areas) as well as minorities such as the Roma are among the most disadvantaged and impoverished groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These groups are particularly hard hit by high unemployment and pronounced levels of social and economic exclusion. Youth unemployment is more than twice as high as in the EU...
Women, young people (especially in rural areas) as well as minorities such as the Roma are among the most disadvantaged and impoverished groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These groups are particularly hard hit by high unemployment and pronounced lev...
The food situation In Haiti is generally precarious. The poorest country in the Western hemisphere cannot provide food security for half its population. 80% of the population live below the poverty threshold, three quarters of them in rural areas. Undernourishment and malnutrition are widespread...
The food situation In Haiti is generally precarious. The poorest country in the Western hemisphere cannot provide food security for half its population. 80% of the population live below the poverty threshold, three quarters of them in rural areas. U...
The handbook Essence of Learning - Learning support in crises contexts can be found on the page regarding Humanitarian Aid.
