The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), part of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, publishes a wide range of documents on Swiss development cooperation and humanitarian aid.

What is development? The dispute over the meaning of this term is almost as old as development cooperation itself. Over the decades, the definition of development and, with it, the approaches used by development cooperation have been in a constant state of change. The new brochure ABC of Development Policy describes this process and explains important keywords.

Publication: March 2011
Number of pages: 52
Languages: de/fr/it/en
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 Message on International Cooperation 2013–2016 (pdf, 1490 Kb) (fr)

Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 332
Languages: de/fr/it
Price: free

 Message on International Cooperation 2013–2016: Key points in brief (pdf, 1979 Kb)

Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 24
Languages: de/fr/it/en
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