In early February 2021, Hans Kissling travelled virtually to Uganda. After four months, he successfully completed his first SEC remote consultancy assignment with an agricultural company. Together, client and expert set up an automated warehouse management system. The SEC client is active in Uganda’s largest economic sector, agriculture. The agricultural company “MARA Agribusiness” sells agricultural […]

Thanks to the remote consultancy of our SEC expert Christoph Ramseier, the Grand Cowboys Steak House in Santa Lucía Milpas Altas, Guatemala, was able to take off running after the corona lockdown and preserve the jobs of 30 employees. This was a result of new business strategies and better monitoring of processes and costs. In […]

The collaboration between Krusha and Swisscontact startet in 2015. They received support from the Senior Expert Contact (SEC) twice: for food technology and marketing, which helped them to significantly improve the shelf-life of the product in the market, and from the design and marketing aspect. Read more

The experience in the last few months has shown that companies can “survive” in difficult times if they are able to flexibly and creatively choose new paths for themselves. One restaurant that has done precisely this is Casa Santa Lucia in Managua, which has set up a takeaway delivery service. SEC expert and former head […]

Coffee is one of the most important export products of the East African state of Uganda. The coffee producer “Kalaa Mugosi Women Empowerment Ltd” not only produces coffee but is also committed to supporting disadvantaged women and girls in rural areas of the country. In January 2020, hence shortly before the world was caught by […]