The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is enlisting the help of multinationals to tackle the age-old challenges of war, hunger and catastrophes…SDC director Martin Dahinden…[says] ["]We live in a globalised world which is changing rapidly. New challenges are also coming to us in development cooperation that can only be solved with new partnerships…[including with the] the private sector…[W]e work together with…firms such as Novartis, Nestlé…Multinationals usually have skills…that we wouldn’t otherwise have. For example in insurance…There has traditionally been no insurance option for developing countries in this area. We have entered into a partnership with Zurich Financial Services relating to this.["]