Proyectos

JOR Medair Multi-sectorial Emergency Assistance to Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians

01.11.2015 - 31.10.2016

Closely 629,000 Syrian refugees are registered in Jordan. Many households are struggling to meet their basic needs. 84% of Syrians are hosted outside refugee camps, 86% of which are living under the poverty line. The project aims at: a) meeting the immediate basic needs of Syrian refugees, b) expanding employment and livelihood opportunities, and strengthening coping capacities of vulnerable Jordanians who have been impacted by the crisis. This project will focus on multi-purpose cash assistance, livelihoods, health and legal support.

Gestion des eaux de ruissellement dans le Tchad sahélien

01.11.2015 - 30.11.2018

Le Tchad sahélien est caractérisé par une dégradation continue ainsi qu’une gestion non durable des ressources naturelles. Grâce aux seuils d’épandage, à la réhabilitation et à l’aménagement de plusieurs vallées, la DDC améliore la gestion de l’eau, réduit la désertification des bas-fonds et contribue à la sécurité alimentaire d’un million d’habitants. Les effets attendus des ouvrages construits permettront une extension des surfaces cultivables et la gestion équitable par les organisations des bénéficiaires.

OCHA - Support to Yemen's Humanitarian Pooled Fund

01.11.2015 - 31.10.2016

The Yemen Humanitarian Pooled Fund (YHPF) replaced the Emergency Response Fund (ERF) in February 2015. The YHPF aims to promote a strategic and coordinated response towards the highest humanitarian priorities of the Humanitarian Response Plan (standard allocation) or due to acute emergency needs (reserve allocation). It provides funding for projects of national and international NGOs, UN agencies as well as IOM and Red Cross/Red Crescent organizations.

Building Skills for Unemployed and Underemployed Labour (B-SkillFUL)

01.11.2015 - 29.02.2020

50,000 poor and disadvantaged men and women will improve their skills and out of them at least 70% will be gainfully employed. The resulting increase in their incomes will contribute to their better well-being and overall poverty alleviation. The employment conditions of workers in the informal sector will be improved through partnerships between the Informal Sector Industry Skills Council, enterprises and training service providers.

Somalia Resilience Programme (SomReP), Somalia

01.11.2015 - 30.11.2016

In the fragile and conflict affected context of Somalia, SDC contribution to the Somalia Resilience Programme Consortium (SomReP) enables pastoral, agro-pastoral and peri-urban poor to increase their ability to prepare for, adapt to and live through shocks (e.g. drought) without eroding their productivity or assets. While focusing on capacity building, livelihood diversification and the elaboration of community-based early warning systems, this initiative is complementary to ongoing resilience and emergency relief oriented interventions.

Strengthening Oversight Function and Transparency of the Parliament

01.11.2015 - 15.01.2020

To benefit Citizens whom they represent, parliamentarians have an important stake in law making including accurate consultation mechanisms. Equally important is their oversight function over the executive's expenditures. Also, the representation of Citizens as per their political power and regional affiliation reflects important features of an effective parliament. The intervention will address identified shortcomings both in the National Assembly as well as in local assemblies of Serbia, thus enhancing their democratic legitimation.

Support to Integrate Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) in WFP

01.11.2015 - 31.12.2016

Switzerland aims at supporting WFP’s capacity to integrate Protection, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and Gender in its programmes. The support is relevant because WFP is currently in the process of combining these dimensions, which is in line with Switzerland’s understanding of an efficient and effective humanitarian programming.

South Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) Contribution 2015

16.10.2015 - 31.12.2015

The various humanitarian interventions in South Sudan require an excellent donor coordination and justifiable prioritization procedure. The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) South Sudan, established in 2012, does not only provide timely and substantial financial provisions for humanitarian projects, it also brings together several important stakeholders involved in the humanitarian response in South Sudan. Contributing to the CHF means to strengthen this mechanism and enable financial support to the most critical interventions, but it also ensures the inclusion of SDC in decision making processes and facilitates a coordinated and strengthened advocacy within the international community.

Malteser: Strenghtening Disaster Resilient Communities and Local Risk Management to Minimize Loss and Damage in Rakhine State

09.10.2015 - 31.12.2017

The project links disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. It will seek to strengthen the resilience of communities to disasters through the development of adaptation plans, trainings and afforestation/reforestation of mangroves. The construction/rehabilitation of disaster resistant infrastructures will make evacuation points more accessible. And finally, the capacities of local authorities responsible for the coordination of the response in case of emergency will be strengthened.

LEB Direct Action - contribution to improved access to water and sanitation services in Bekaa Valley

01.10.2015 - 31.12.2020

The delivery of Water and Sanitation services by the Bekaa Water Establishment (BWE) has been partly disrupted since the massive arrival of refugees from Syria, due to a high demand on an establishment whose structure and daily operation procedures are inefficient. SDC intends to support the much needed development of the BWE to improve the quality of its services to all, Lebanese host communities as well as refugee populations.

Nigeria UNHAS: access to northeast through provision of humanitarian flights

01.10.2015 - 31.12.2015

As UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations scale up their activities for an effective response, there is difficulty to access the crisis-affected areas due to road insecurity and long waiting at checkpoints, often subject to insurgent attacks. This operation is established to ensure humanitarian access to north-east Nigeria through the provision of safe and reliable air transport services as well as to provide capacity for evacuation of humanitarian staff when required.

LEB- UNDP -Improving Living Conditions in Palestinian Gatherings

01.10.2015 - 30.09.2018

In Lebanon, 455'000 Palestine refugees are officially registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Some 250'000 of them live in 12 official camps; others live in and around cities and towns, often in areas called gatherings. There are 42 such gatherings in Lebanon where over 140'000 Palestine refugees live (as well as poor Lebanese and Palestine refugees from Syria). Through this project, SDC aims at contributing to improved living conditions in these gatherings by providing basic urban services.