Our Projects
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Northern Agriculture and Forestry Training College
Laos | Building and Settlement
The development goal is to build up the NAFC, as a centre of excellence, acknowledged by public and private partners in sustainable upland farming systems in the northern provinces of Laos. The project objective is: the NAFC offers an attractive study and working environment for students and teachers (taking into account gender and ethnic groups).
Backstopping and Programme Support to the Community-Based Governance and Social Services Component of the UNDP/GEF project Climate Change Mitigation in Ukraine through Energy Efficiency in Municipal District Heating
Ukraine | Enviromental Management and IWRM
The aim of the backstopping and programme support provided by Skat in the pilot project of Rivne was to assist UNDP in the development, initiation and implementation of a community-based approach in energy efficiency through social mobilisation – an approach that involves capacity building measures as well as various legal, institutional and management aspects.
Technical advice to Solaqua Foundation
Nepal | Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Skat provides strategic, technical and methodological advice to Solaqua Foundation in regard to its institutional strategy and portfolio development, evaluation and monitoring of field projects, implementation methodologies, indicators, etc.
Rehabilitation of earthquake affected schools
Nepal | Building and Settlement
A destructive earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. Caritas Switzerland is rehabilitating 34 schools in 6 VDCs in Sindhupalchok district, Nepal, to provide students and teachers with earthquake-safe and child- and teacher-friendly learning environments.
Resettlement and Livelihood Restoration of Waste Pickers of Bishkek Landfill Site
Kyrgyzstan | Waste Management
The project aims at creating improved employability in the formal or informal sector for those who will be displaced from improving the dumpsite to a sanitary landfill.
Recycling Value Chain in Metro Manila
Phillippines | Waste Management
Market value chain research for developing and enhancing recycling of plastic, paper and glass. We also provided design inputs for Barangays on construction material recovery facilities.
Informal Plastic Recycling Value Chains in Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines
Indonesia | Waste Management
As part of a large study of plastics in marine litter, Skat carried out an in-depth research on informal sector recycling status and potentials in the three mentioned countries.
Technical Support Agency for Developing a Solid and Liquid Waste Management Model for Rural Sanitation in Rajasthan
India | Waste Management
Technical Support Agency for Developing a Solid and Liquid Waste Management Model for Rural Sanitation in Rajasthan. Supporting the state and district governments in implementing the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), a national program of the Government of India to increase access to rural sanitation.
Masterplan District Hospital Bumthang
Bhutan | Building and Settlement
The main objective of developing a Master Plan for the next 5-10 years was to ensure that all the activities that are required for the 40-bedded hospital are ideally perceived from both the Royal government’s perspective, the realities on ground and the prospective donors perspectives.
Backstopping Mandate to the “Inter-Ministerial Water Council of Kosovo”
Kosovo | Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
To advance the country’s water sector reform, the Government of Kosovo established in 2008 the Water Task Force (WTF): an inter-ministerial decision-making body shaping the sector’s policy & strategy frame-work and related action plans, as well as coordinating the domestic and external sector actors. The Swiss Government supported the WTF by funding through SECO long-term consultants, short-term experts and a backstopping mandate to Skat since 2009.
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