Rising Together - Building Resilient & Inclusive Communities through Women & Youth Empowerment
15.11.2024
- 14.11.2026
The project aims to address widespread Gender-Based violence against women and girls in both Rohingya refugee and host communities, as well as the need for skill development among youth, in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char. In partnership with UNFPA, Switzerland aims to improve protection services and provide training opportunities, thereby reinforcing its commitment to gender equality and social inclusion.
Emergency Appeal- Floods -2024
06.09.2024
- 31.10.2025
Through this International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies appeal, the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society will address the needs of the flood affected communities by providing support for shelter, food security, livelihoods, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene in targeted regions within Bangladesh.
MICS: Building national statistical capacity for SDG data collection, analysis and reporting in Bangladesh
01.07.2024
- 31.12.2025
This project aims to gather crucial data on children's and women's well-being through the 'Multi Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS)' to contribute in policy design. Additionally, it aims to enhance national statistical capacity to collect internationally comparable estimates of key indicators for monitoring SDGs and national priorities. The project will continue Switzerland's long-standing tradition of supporting data and statistical capacity in developing countries.
Strengthened and Informative Migration Systems (SIMS) Phase II
01.04.2024
- 31.03.2029
Switzerland is interested in ensuring that international migration is regular, secure, respects human dignity and the rights of migrants. The project will institutionalise well tested awareness mechanisms on the perils of irregular migration and enhance further public and private capacities to deliver services to potential migrants. The intervention contributes to Switzerland’s dialogue on safe, orderly and regular migration at national and global levels.
Scaling Social & Impact Enterprises
01.01.2024
- 31.10.2027
Capitalising on Switzerland’s position as a frontrunner in supporting the impact investing ecosystem in Bangladesh, this flagship programme continues with the agenda to incentivise impact enterprises to enhance their impact creation thereby increasing their potential to scale and intensify their positive social and environmental contribution. This will be done by bridging the unmet gaps to secure appropriate non-development financing, institutionalising impact investing and setting a blueprint for regional replication.
Access 2 Green Financing for Enterprises
01.01.2024
- 31.12.2035
Building on Switzerland’s experience with innovative access to finance avenues, this programme facilitates mobilising green finance for small and medium sized enterprises in Bangladesh. The focus is on enterprises that have a strong commitment to reducing their environmental footprint and to providing green products and services in order to address climate change and reduce environmental degradation.
WFP: Building Resiliency & Self-Reliance
15.11.2023
- 15.11.2025
The Swiss contribution to the World Food Programme’s Country Strategic Programme will foster and enhance resiliency through agricultural skilling and increased access to income, allowing for the Rohingya refugees to become more self-reliant and support their basic needs. As a contributor to a multi-donor framework, Switzerland can simultaneously leverage durable solutions advancement in the Rohingya response while ensuring service delivery for the most vulnerable in the refugee camps.
Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Programme
01.07.2023
- 31.12.2027
This programme takes forward Switzerland’s global and in-country experience in working on agricultural microinsurance by addressing critical climate risks, hazards and resulting economic shocks for farming people. The programme will sustainably increase resilience of farmers and related micro and small enterprises through climate change adaptation practices, and stimulate sustainable and inclusive growth across multiple agricultural sub-sectors.
Access to Green Financing for Enterprises
01.06.2023
- 31.10.2027
Building on Switzerland’s experience with innovative access to finance avenues, this programme facilitates mobilising green finance for small and medium sized enterprises in Bangladesh. The focus is on enterprises that have a strong commitment to reducing their environmental footprint and to providing green products and services in order to address climate change and reduce environmental degradation.
Ashshash – for men and women who have escaped trafficking
01.06.2023
- 31.05.2027
Switzerland has an interest in ensuring that international migration is regular, secure, and respects human dignity and the rights of migrants. The programme will support men and women who have escaped trafficking to reintegrate into society, raise awareness on the perils of irregular migration and improve public and private capacities to deliver services to victims of trafficking. The intervention contributes to Switzerland’s political dialogue on safe, orderly and regular migration at the global level.
Astha - Election Support Project
01.05.2023
- 30.11.2026
The democracy of Bangladesh will be strengthened through a fair, free, inclusive and non-violent election cycle, to which this project contributes by supporting the Bangladesh Election Commission, civil society organisations, media and marginalised communities including women and/or youth groups. The project builds on Switzerland’s democratic principles to foster good governance, at all levels, within electoral processes.
Bamboo Climate Action
15.03.2023
- 31.03.2026
Aligned with Switzerland’s Climate Change and Environment and Social Cohesion priorities the project builds on existing market systems expertise to establish bamboo as a nature-based solution able to address the environmental and economic vulnerabilities of host and refugee communities in a protracted crisis. Thus, bamboo aims to enhance livelihoods and risk mitigation caused by the impacts of climate change and disasters. This nexus project supports Bangladesh’s Social Forestry initiatives and works across humanitarian and development axis.
