Projekte

Protection and risk prevention for children and youth affected by armed conflict and/or forced recruitment, and improvement of livelihoods of targeted communities in Tierralta (Córdoba) and Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca)

01.12.2014 - 30.11.2016

The five decades running armed conflict in Colombia continues to cause humanitarian needs such as internal displacement, landmine contamination, access constraints, use and recruitment of children and youth, gender based violence, and gaps in the provision of protection to vulnerable groups, especially indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities. In addition, in rural and urban areas of the departments of Valle del Cauca and Córdoba, the access to safe water and sanitation services is limited, and communities face a deterioration of agricultural livelihoods, which increase the vulnerability of the population.

UNOCHA - Emergency Response Fund for the oPt 2014-2015

01.12.2014 - 31.12.2015

SDC financial contribution to the pooled Emergency Response Fund (ERF) managed by UNOCHA in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) enables humanitarian actors to quickly respond to acute and unforeseen emergencies affecting the Palestinian population, mainly in Gaza and in Area C of the West Bank. This intervention supports Palestinians living in the oPt in asserting their rights and gain­ing improved access to quality basic services including relief assistance.

Swiss Capacitiy-Building Facility for Income and Employment Generation (SCBF)

01.12.2014 - 31.12.2022

Support to the Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Strengthening Prosecutors in the Criminal Justice System

01.12.2014 - 31.12.2019

BiH initiated important legislative and policy reforms in the justice sector in the view to strengthen the rule of law, as important step towards European integration. These reforms are still ongoing. The project provides support to BiH's authorities in shaping the prosecutorial system, in improving criminal investigations, in establishing tools for executing prosecutorial functions more efficiently, effectively and transparently, and in fostering the public's trust into the work of the prosecutors' offices.

Long-term farming system comparisons in the tropics

01.12.2014 - 31.12.2018

Agriculture based on high external inputs resulted in productivity increases but has high negative external costs. Alternative systems such as organic agriculture exist but information on their economic, environmental and social performance is scarce. This long-term system comparison led by the Swiss-based Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL) provides scientific evidence on the productivity and profitability of organic agriculture compared to conventional agriculture in four production systems of the tropics.

SYR UNDP Livelihood Restoration

15.11.2014 - 31.08.2015

Humanitarian and livelihoods needs have increased twelve fold since the beginning of the crisis in Syria with 12.2 million people now in need of humanitarian assistance; all affected in their livelihoods and are experiencing deteriorating living conditions. The proposed project for the Restoration of Livelihoods of Syrian Affected population aims at strengthening the resilience of the crisis affected communities and people by ensuring (i) the restoration of livelihoods to stimulate local recovery and (ii) the rehabilitation of basic services and infrastructure while mainstreaming resilience-based planning into all activities ensuring a conflict sensitive programming focused on targeting the most vulnerable groups and the hard to reach areas.

SYR FAO Emergency food security and livelihood assistance

15.11.2014 - 31.03.2016

The prolonged crisis in Syria is severely hampering the fundament of food security, in terms of access, availability, utilization and stabilization. It is assumed that the situation will continue to deteriorate in the affected Governorates, Aleppo, AI Hassakeh, AI Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, Hama, Horns, ldleb and Rural Damascus, especially for the neediest strata of the affected populations composed of women and children who would not be able to meet their basic needs of food and nutrition security requirement if no external emergency support is provided. The project focuses on the provision of key agriculture inputs (cereal and vegetable seeds, poultry) and farming skills to vulnerable households (HH) to empower them to produce their own food and meet the basic food and nutrition requirements of their families.

Supporting Romanian NGOs for direct assistance of victims of human trafficking

14.11.2014 - 30.06.2017

The objective is to support victims of human trafficking through direct assistance services provided by non-governmental organisations in Romania. A financial redistribution system will be established to finance victims assistance services provided by NGOs.

Liberia: crise Ebola – achat et envoi de matériel de protection

14.11.2014 - 31.12.2014

The current Ebola outbreak across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has surpassed all other outbreaks in terms of cases, deaths and geographic spread. The Multilateral organizations and the Governments’ bodies have beefed up their responses in the affected countries in their respective fields. Human and financial resources needs have increased and the Ministry of health and Social Welfare of Liberia has requested supports in in-kind medical materials and consumables.

GWP Global Water Partnership

01.11.2014 - 31.12.2016

Strengthening Social Accountability and Oversight in Health and Agriculture

01.11.2014 - 30.06.2019

This project aims to contribute to the equitable, effective and accountable allocation and use of public resources for health and agriculture in SADC countries by addressing social accountability in a systemic approach in strengthening the roles of relevant parliamentary committees, civil society organizations, smallholder farmer organisations and the media. The first phase of the project will focus on Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.

Youth Friendly Health Services in Moldova

01.11.2014 - 31.10.2018

In Moldova, young people face various health challenges which are currently not adequately addressed by health services. To improve this situation, Youth Friendly Health Services started as pilots in 2005 and are being scaled-up by the Ministry of Health since 2011, with the support of SDC. The project is focused on improving the quality and enhancing the comprehensiveness of the services, as well as on the community support for young people to adopt a healthier lifestyle and seek assistance from health services.