Core Contribution to Helvetas, 2025-2028
Helvetas is an independent Swiss NGO supported by over 1 00’000 members and private donors. It is active in 35 countries with over 300 projects and about 1'400 staff. Helvetas’ International Programme addresses a range of working areas from Water, Food and Climate, to Jobs and Income, as well as Inclusion and Cohesion. Helvetas is active in the Global South and in Eastern Europe. It is an important actor of the Swiss International Cooperation.
| Land/Region | Thema | Periode | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
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Weltweit |
Landwirtschaft und Ernährungssicherheit Wasser Inclusive economic Development Gouvernanz
Ernährungssicherungspolitik
Wassersektorpolitik Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen Demokratische Partizipation und Zivilbevölkerung |
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2026 |
CHF 14’320’000
|
- HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
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Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD WASSERVERSORGUNG & SIEDLUNGSHYGIENE
OTHER MULTISECTOR
REGIERUNG UND ZIVILGESELLSCHAFT
OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
REGIERUNG UND ZIVILGESELLSCHAFT
OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
Sub-Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD Politik und Verwaltung im Wasserbereich
Ernährungssicherungspolitik
Demokratische Partizipation und Zivilbevölkerung
Politik und Verwaltung im Beschäftigungsbereich
Demokratische Partizipation und Zivilbevölkerung
Politik und Verwaltung im Beschäftigungsbereich
Querschnittsthemen Projekt fördert die Biodiversität.
Menschenrechte
Projekt unterstützt auch Verbesserungen in der Partnerorganisation
Unterstützungsform Kernbeitrag
Projektnummer 7F03924
| Hintergrund | The international environment is characterised by numerous multiplec rises. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the escalation in the Middle East, food insecurity, debt burden and inflation, climate change and the energy crisis are all having a direct impact on the world's population. They particularly affect the most vulnerable, mostly women and children and result in increasing humanitarian needs. Accelerated change is accompanied by increased uncertainty: The world is becoming more fragmented, unstable and unpredictabIe. Whilst the vision to reach the Sustainable Development Goals remains, challenges including the accelerating global food and nutritionc risis, shrinking civic and humanitarian space, the erosion of rule of law, intensifying armed conflicts, more frequent climate-related disasters, international migration and internal displacement, exacerbated demographics and an important gender gap hamper progress in reaching them and pose a main challenge for all actors engaged in Switzerland’s International Cooperation. Conscious of the above-described developments, the funding landscape, and the importance of cooperation across different sectors and boundaries, Helvetas wiII focus on supporting effective, multistakeholder partnerships involving civil society, government, and private sector actors. It will prioritise people-centred, human rights-based approaches, which allow to tackle global issues, while serving people locally, especially the most underserved and living with fragility. |
| Ziele | With its different local, national and regional partners, Helvetas supports poor and disadvantaged women and men to improve their living conditions in a sustainable manner. It promotes human rights, equitablea ccess to resources, services and income and engages in development policy. |
| Resultate des Engagement der Organisation der vorangehenden Phase | Helvetas directly supported almost 3 million people (50% women) to improve access to land, water, or healthy food, increase agricultural productivity, or enhance capacities for improved and climate-resilient living conditions (plus almost 6 million indirect beneficiaries) (Outcome 1). More than 720’000 people, (incl. 51% women), have benefittedf rom access to quality education, skills development, jobs, or additional income (plus 0.6 million indirect beneficiaries) (Outcome 2). Helvetas reached almost one million international migrants (incl. 45% women) and supported about 100’000 people in their advocacy work to claim their rights to basic services and to transform local conflicts (plus 6.5 million indirect beneficiaries) (Outcome 3). Furthermore, more than 4’300 local authorities, civil society organisations and networks have been strengthened. These results have been achieved by promoting and respecting national ownership and localisation and fostering access to Swiss expertise. Also, Helvetas successfully increased its volume of Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus funding from CHF 0.4 million budget to CHF 18 million. |
| Resultate des Schweizer Engagement der vorangehenden Phase |
Helvetas has introduceda series of good practices strengthening local civil society partners to become actors in their own right. The number of local partners has been relatively stable, ranging from 900 in 2021, to 1 ’150 (in 2022), to 830 in 2023. When it comes to Gender and Social Equity (GSE), between 48-50% of the primary stakeholders reached by Helvetas projects/programmes were women and girls from 2021-2023, while 51-58% were disadvantagedp ersons. Over the same period, 8 country programmes had a GSE principled project in 2021, resp. 3 in 2022, and 3 in 2023. Since 2023, Helvetas has integrated a GSE marker into its annual reporting and dËsposes of a dashboard, which tracks and visually displays GSE blind, significant, and principal projects. |
| Mittelfristige Wirkung des gegenwärtigen Engagements der Organisation |
Outcome 1 : People, including those left behind, are more water and food secure and on a pathway to climate and disaster resilience and sustainably managed natural resources and landscapes. Outcome 2: People, including those left behind as well as micro, small and medium enterprises, benefit from better education and market systems contributing towards a greener economy and sustainabIe development. Outcome 3: People, including those left behind and/or living in fragility, contribute to and benefit from more equitable, cohesive, inclusive and just societies. |
| Mittelfristige Wirkung des gegenwärtigen Engagements der Schweiz |
The role of Swiss NGOs in the implementation of the Swiss IC Strategy 2025-28 shall be strengthened through: a) sharpening the narrative on the importance of the core contribution, b) an inclusive policydialogue, c) Locally led development and potential adaptations of programmes and approaches (reforms in the larger sense). |
| Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt |
DEZA |
| Projektpartner |
Vertragspartner Schweizerische Non-Profit-Organisation |
| Budget | Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF 14’320’000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF 7’160’000 Budget der Organisation CHF 350’710’000 Projekttotal seit Anfangsphase Schweizer Beitrag CHF 336’421’226 Budget inklusive Projektpartner CHF 0 |
| Projektphasen | Phase 27 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 (Laufende Phase) Phase 26 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 (Completed) Phase 23 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2018 (Completed) Phase 21 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2014 (Completed) |
