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Helvetas Perú
Provides partial funding and technical assistance in value chains, mainly cacao, with cooperatives and buyers, including traceability for deforestation-free exports.
How can Helvetas Perú help your biobusiness?
- What it offers
technical assistanceco-financing with buyers
- At what stage
- I'm already operating
- Who it serves
- Associations and cooperatives · Formal companies
- Products
- Cacao
- Where it works
- International reach: More than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern EuropeIn Peru, with documented projects or investments in: San Martín, Piura
How do you access Helvetas Perú?
- Can you apply directly?
- Yes, it serves biobusinesses directly.
- Do you need a business that already operates?
- Yes
- How hard is it to access?
- Demanding access
- Do you pay or co-fund?
- Partly free or with matching contribution
- Is it repaid?
- Not repaid
- Where does the money come from?
- Blended
Reference timelines. The public competitions reviewed take between 3 and 10 months from opening to results (our calculation with 2026 call documents).
Mapping classification: Works through projects and not through an open call: in the San Martín cacao project buyer companies cover costs and Swiss cooperation contributes CHF 1.4 million, hence the mixed origin and partial funding.
Who does Helvetas Perú overlap with?
Organizations in the map working on the same products in the same departments. It is not a declared relationship: it is an overlap in the data, useful to look for synergies.
Sources and references
Dated public data behind this profile. What is published does not reflect everything an organization does.
In San Martín it runs the Sustainable Cacao Landscapes project: Lindt & Sprüngli, Halba and Choba Choba cover costs and Swiss cooperation contributes CHF 1.4 million. Swissinfo: How a project in Peru supports sustainable cocoa and serves Swiss interests
With Open Food Chain it leads MiCacao, a traceability project funded by GIZ's I4AgFund, which launched the first 100% traceable chocolate bar aligned with the EU deforestation regulation, with cacao from San Martín and Piura. Agraria.pe: El cacao peruano marca un hito con la primera barra de chocolate 100% trazable
The Sustainable Cacao Landscapes project, funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) with support from Swissco, runs from 2024 to 2027 in the provinces of Huallaga, Mariscal Cáceres and Tocache, in San Martín, and works with seven producer cooperatives. Helvetas Perú: Paisajes Sostenibles de Cacao en la Región San Martín (ficha del proyecto)