Proyectos

BACKUP Health Technical support for Global Fund country partners

01.12.2019 - 30.11.2023

Switzerland supports The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria with 64 million CHF for three years (2020-2022). As the Fund is a global financing mechanism without country presence that provides grants to recipient countries. The BACKUP Health initiative strives to strengthen governments and other national stakeholders in such way that they embed Global Fund grant proposals in broader health sector priorities.

Conserving Forests through sustainable forest-based Enterprise Support in Tanzania

01.12.2019 - 31.12.2023

The CoForEST project contributes to the reduction of deforestation by incentivizing rural communities to retain their natural forests. This exit phase aims to expand a successful and sustainable community-based forest management model that generates significant livelihood benefits for both women and men. Linkages with initiatives supported by the Global Program on Climate Change seek to influence policies and financial mechanisms.

Contribution to the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Safe to Learn Initiative

01.12.2019 - 30.06.2022

At least a billion children are exposed to violence yearly. Recognizing its devastating impact, world leaders committed in 2015 to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. This resulted in the launch of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. It aims to contribute to a “world in which every child grows up free from violence”. A key pillar is the Partnership’s Safe to Learn Initiative that aims to end violence in and through education. Through this support Switzerland contributes to both the SDG 16 on Peace and SDG 4 on Education.

GEMR - Global Education Monitoring Report

01.12.2019 - 31.12.2022

Depuis 2002, la communauté internationale confie au Rapport mondial de suivi sur l’éducation le mandat de rendre compte des avancées en matière d’éducation en vue de la réalisation de l’Objectif pour le Dévelopement Durable 4 relatif à l’éducation. Ses analyses rigoureuses et recommendations stratégiques permettent d’animer et d’alimenter de manière fiable et pertinente les débats concernant les politiques éducatives et d’influencer leurs orientations, en soutien au dialogue politique suisse.

Dynamic electronic decision trees for managing childhood illness (DYNAMIC)

15.11.2019 - 31.12.2024

Every year, more than five million children die before the age of five due to preventable or treatable causes, most of them in developing countries. New technologies combined with rapid tests can improve diagnosis and management of sick children and reduce health costs. This collaborative research project makes use of Switzerland’s knowledge in digital technologies to improve the health of children and reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in low resource settings.

Research and Technology for sustainable development in the global South (SDC contribution to ETH4D of ETH Zurich and Tech4Dev of EPFL)

15.11.2019 - 30.09.2024

Many countries struggling with extreme poverty have expending economies, creating new opportunities for innovative approaches to address societal and environmental challenges. SDC supports the new initiatives of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH4D, ETH Zurich and Tech4Impact, EPFL), which encourage Swiss researchers to work together with research and implementing partners from the global South in developing research-based solutions to global challenges.

Programme d’Appui à la Qualité de l’Education (PAQUE)

15.11.2019 - 30.06.2024

L’éducation au Bénin souffre d’un manque de qualité : enseignants en nombre insuffisant et pas bien formés, matériel scolaire et encadrement pédagogique insuffisants. La Suisse s’est fortement engagée pour la formulation du nouveau Plan sectoriel de l’éducation 2018-2030. Forte de son expertise en matière d’éducation et sur la base des résultats clés obtenus à travers les autres programmes du portefeuille éducation, sa contribution au PAQUE vise à améliorer la qualité de l’éducation au. Bénin

CISP: Protección integral y asistencia humanitaria para población fronteriza, desplazada, repatriada y migrante con afectación múltiple en Venezuela, Colombia y Ecuador

15.11.2019 - 31.01.2021

COSUDE apoya al Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli (CISP) en sus esfuerzos por mejorar las condiciones de vida de los migrantes, retornados, refugiados y las comunidades de acogida vulnerables, viviendo principalmente en las fronteras colombo-venezolana y colombo-ecuatoriana. La intervención busca ampliar la asistencia humanitaria y se enfoca en los ámbitos de protección, salud, salud mental, nutrición, agua y saneamiento y acceso a la educación. El proyecto está alineado con el Plan de Respuesta Humanitaria de Venezuela, el Plan Regional de Respuesta para Refugiados y Migrantes (capítulos Ecuador y Colombia) y las prioridades de los gobiernos.

Wyss Center Bern (WCB) – Shaping Sustainable Futures for Nature and People

15.11.2019 - 31.01.2024

The Wyss Center Bern Initiative is a new research and innovation set-up that should help address today’s complex global challenges related to nature conservation and human development. The initiative aims to develop new approaches to narrow the gap between research and practice and identify promising solutions to sustainable development challenges on several continents. The initiative also strengthens Switzerland’s profile on research for sustainable development.

CRC: Integración de población migrante y de acogida en Cali

01.11.2019 - 31.01.2021

COSUDE apoyará a la Cruz Roja Colombiana (Cruz Roja Colombiana, CRC) para contribuir a la la integración cultural y socioeconómica de los migrantes venezolanos, los retornados colombianos y las comunidades de acogida vulnerables en Cali. Este proyecto trabajará en torno al nexo entre responder a las necesidades humanitarias y crear condiciones para la estabilización socioeconómica de población vulnerable. Tendrá lugar en un contexto de riesgos de protección, especialmente para mujeres, jóvenes y niños asociados con economías ilegales y actores armados.

El proyecto se ajustó para responder a las consecuencias del Covid-19 en la subsistencia económica de las personas focalizadas en Cali y de otras poblaciones vulnerables en Cauca, Guainía, Vichada.

“Mental Health for Universal Health Coverage” (MH4UHC)

01.11.2019 - 31.10.2024

In low resource settings, less than 20% of people with mental disorders have access to mental health services. Building on best practices and experience from Swiss supported programs at country level, the Special Initiative for Mental Health aims to increase access to care for people with mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Priority areas are advocacy for investments in mental health, evidence-based policy formulation, and integration of mental health services at primary healthcare level.

WFP Protection, Accountability to Affected Population, and Inclusion Policy Development

01.11.2019 - 31.03.2021

Implementing the aspiration set out in the WFP Strategic Plan (2017-2021) for a people-centred, needs-driven approach that is guided by a strong commitment to the humanitarian principles calls for strengthening the integration of Protection and AAP throughout WFP’s operations. Therefore, WFP has started implementing a new Protection, AAP and Inclusion strategy, with the aim to inform the development of a new Protection Policy by early 2021.This project intends to further support this ambitious endeavour.