The rate of destruction of tropical forests remains alarmingly high, and requires donors and international development agencies to develop stronger policies in order to effectively support the efforts of countries endowed with tropical forests to promote their sustainable management. To promote an understanding of what SECO and Intercooperation can do in their partnership, they are presenting their policies and strategies, in which they set the objectives and describe how to implement them.

Economic Development Cooperation: Model principles of the SECO department "development and transition" (PDF 936 KB, Deutsch, Français, English)

Policies SECO on tropical forests (PDF 198 KB, only in German)

Policies Intercooperation (PDF 34 KB)