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BCC

Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building for ​Central Banks

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Latest news and activities
BCC 9th Annual Conference, on
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Digital payments and currencies

Workshop 22 Sept 2021
Policy conference 23-24 September 2021
Virtual format

"Le Musée de la Monnaie de la Banque Centrale de Tunisie passe à l’ère digitale avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de Suisse"

"...Le programme BCC profite à environ 50 cadres de la BCT..."
01.03.2021

What we do

BCC supports central banks in emerging countries to be more effective, through tailored capacity building. The BCC programme, funded by SECO and implemented by The Graduate Institute, Geneva aims to support partner central banks in emerging countries in building the analytical and technical expertise to conduct effective monetary policy, promote stable and efficient financial sector, and be more operationally sustainable. Our support is tailored to the central bank’s specific needs. BCC supports central banks in SECO priority countries and is currently working with the central banks of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Morocco, Peru,  Tunisia, and Ukraine. 

Our activities

The programme supports the central banks to make better decision through better staff capacity, tools, and processes. It does so by providing capacity building support in the form of:
Technical Assistance
BCC provides partner central banks with experts to deliver a combination of theoretical courses with practical support to build sustainable capacity
Peer to Peer
BCC encourages partner central banks to learn from each other’s experiences. This is facilitated through technical workshops in partner countries, short visits, and remote collaboration
​​Conferences
Annually, BCC organizes an international conference
​in Geneva
Research Support
 BCC provides research support either in person at IHEID, with the researcher visiting IHEID for a semester (visiting programme) or through remote research-coaching by a professor (coaching programme)

Our areas of support

BCC aims to help central banks by working with them across 2-3 priority areas among the following 6 areas:
1. ​Monetary policy analysis and implementation
Constructing different scenarios to analyse policy effects and inform monetary policy decision-making; this includes managing the money base in the country and foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank
2. Macro-economic accounting and statistics​
Conducting surveys and compiling data to inform policy
3. Financial stability
​Monitoring the financial sector to avert or mitigate risks (when it falls under the mandate of the central bank)
​​​4. Financial sector development
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Strengthening the financial sector, by promoting lending, strengthening payment systems, etc.​
5. ​Operational risk management​
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Ensuring the central bank’s business-continuity in case of external crises such as natural disasters, attacks, etc.
6. ​Human resource management
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Strengthening professional profiles, recruitment and promotion systems within the central bank

BCC in the media

NBU and SECO launch technical cooperation program..."
​30 November 2019 - Ukraine
Central Bank of Azerbaijan signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs..."
​3 June 2019 - Azerbaijan
​Bank of Albania and the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) sign a Memorandum of Understanding..."
1 March 2019 - Albania
BCT - Gouvernement suisse: lancement de la deuxieme phase du programme BCC.."
​9 May 2019 - Tunisia
Strengthening of Central Bank Capacities continues With Support of the Swiss Government..."
​13 February 2019 - Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Firma de Memorando de Entendimiento entre Banco de la República y Gobierno de Suiza ..."
4 April 2019 - Colombia
Central Bank of BiH presented preliminary Findings of the Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building Program..."
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4 July 2018 - Bosnia and Herzegovina 
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Testimonials

"I truly recommend the BCC online course to anyone involved in managing relations with IFIs. It covers a diversity of topics, tremendously useful in the interactions with this kind of institutions.  From a good survey on the type of IFIs, their functions and main characteristics, to a realistic negotiation exercise in which different types of strategies should be employed. The online nature of the course allows a great level of flexibility.  I really enjoyed to be part of the first cohort of this online course I would like to encourage to others involved in the area of international affairs to be part of future versions of this course."
Andrés Murcia. Director of International Affairs Unit. Central Bank of Colombia. 

Our team has supported central banks in emerging economies since 2013

PAPERS PUBLISHED SINCE 2013
BCC is currently in its Phase 2
from 2018 to 2022
BCC Countries currently being supported
Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and
​Herzegovina, Colombia, Morocco, Peru, Tunisia, and Ukraine