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.
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 consequences of decades of civil war continue to mark the society as well as the social and economic infrastructure of northern Uganda. Regions such as Acholi and West Nile are among the poorest in the country. Malnutrition – above all among children – is widespread.
The consequences of decades of civil war continue to mark the society as well as the social and economic infrastructure of northern Uganda. Regions such as Acholi and West Nile are among the poorest in the country. Malnutrition – above all among chil...
A devastating combination of drought, years of political unrest and armed conflict plunged South Sudan into a humanitarian and economic crisis. Today, more than half the population is affected by an acute food shortage. Moreover, there is a lack of sufficient access to clean water everywhere. Caritas improves livelihoods in the rural areas in the c...
A devastating combination of drought, years of political unrest and armed conflict plunged South Sudan into a humanitarian and economic crisis. Today, more than half the population is affected by an acute food shortage. Moreover, there is a lack of s...
The handbook Essence of Learning - Learning support in crises contexts can be found on the page regarding Humanitarian Aid.
