UNICEF Core Contribution 2025
UNICEF is one of Switzerland's key partners to achieve the Swiss strategic priorities in education, health and child protection in both development and humanitarian contexts. Switzerland has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guides UNICEF’s universal mandate. As one of the UN’s largest agencies, UNICEF plays a leading role in the United Nations Development System (UNDS) Reform to more effectively deliver results for children as part of the 2030 Agenda.
| Pays/région | Thème | Période | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
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Monde entier |
Education Santé nothemedefined
Politique d'éducation
Nutrition de base Système de santé primaire |
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2025 |
CHF 13’000’000
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- equal access for all children to quality basic education and learning, and improved protection of children from violence and exploitation
- improved organisational effectiveness, with a focus on evaluation, results-oriented engagement with the private sector, gender transformative programming and financial sustainability
- implementation of the UNDS reform.
- enhanced coherence and partnerships with the World Bank and regional Development Banks.
- Switzerland advocates for increased numbers of Swiss professionals at UNICEF.
- Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance
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Secteur selon catégorisation du Comité d'aide au développement de l'OCDE EDUCATION
SANTE
SANTE
Sous-Secteur selon catégorisation du Comité d'aide au développement de l'OCDE Politique de l’éducation et gestion administrative
Nutrition de base
Soins et services de santé de base
Thème transversal Droits de l'homme
Le projet contribue à améliorer le fonctionnement de l'organisation partenaire
Type d'aide Contribution de base
Numéro de projet 7F03591
| Domaine de compétences | UNICEF, established in 1946, is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as ensuring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children. UNICEF contributes the SDGs related to end poverty, zero hunger, health and wellbeing, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, and peaceful, just and inclusive societies. UNICEF’s mandate covers humanitarian aid and development cooperation. UNICEF hosts the global Education Cannot Wait Fund, which is dedicated to education in emergencies and protractedc rises. UNICEF is one of the UN’s lead agencies in mobilizing private sector contributions to achieving the Agenda 2030. |
| Priorités stratégiques de la Suisse et de l'organisation et leur cohérence | UNICEF is one of Switzerland’s priority multilateral development organisations and a key humanitarian partner. UNICEF’s focus on health & nutrition, education, child protection, water, sanitation & climate change and social protection match Swiss strategic priorities. Switzerland leverages its own thematic expertise in education, protection and humanitarian-development nexus and geographic network to support UNICEF. UNICEF is an important partner for Switzerland in achieving the 2030 Agenda and implementingt he Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF also contributes to the implementation of SDC’s Education Strategy. UNICEF is an important partner to promote the humanitarian-development nexus, and towards achieving the UNDS Reform. As a top 10 donor Switzerland influences UNICEF’s policy and strategy development, |
| Résultats de l'engagement déployé à ce jour par l'organisation | In 2021 alone, forty-two million children received learning materials, totalling since 2016 137 million children and exceeding the target of 93 million. UNICEF is still the largest education-in-emergencies provider globally. By 2021, 48 per cent of countries had effective education systems, an increase of 13% since 2017, but below the 2021 target of 61 per cent. Since the COVID-19 crisis, education systems cannot return to the 'business-as-usual’ approaches. School closures have exacerbated the pre-existing learning crisis: simulations suggest that the rate of learning poverty - the share of 1 0-year-old children who cannot read and understand a simple text - is estimated to have increased by 13 points to 70 % in low- and middle-income countries between 2019 and 2022. Engaging adolescent girls and boys around climate change and environmental advocacy is a key area of work. |
| Résultats de l'engagement déployé à ce jour par la Suisse | Switzerland’s contributions in education, protection, institutional effectiveness and UNDS Reform are satisfactory. They include the new UNICEF Evaluation Policy and the new Education Strategy (2019-2030). The SP 2022-2025 reflects Switzerland’s priorities. Thanks to Switzerland’s intervention, UNICEF and the other 3 F+Ps2 will annually report on system-wide results achieved jointly. Switzertand contributed substantially to the revised cost-recovery policy of the 4 F+Ps. Switzerland promotes transparency and inclusiveness of Country Programme Document development process. Switzerland further advocated for a harmonized drafting process of the 4 F+Ps new SPs, resulting in largely harmonized new results frameworks. Swiss presence within UNICEF has remained stable with 26 Swiss professional staff working for UNICEF and a constant pipeline of Swiss JPOs with a 100% retention rate. |
| Effets directs de l'engagement actuel de l'organisation |
The overall ambition of UNICEF's Strategic Plan (SP) 2022-2025 is to realize the rights of every child, and is a continuation of the preceding one UNICEF’s development effectiveness will be strengthened thanks to more integrated, multisectoral approaches, gender transformative programming, innovation and digital transformation, risk informed humanitarian and development nexus programming, more effective public and private partnerships and more coherent collaboration with UN-sister agencies. Partnerships with international finance institutions, the private sector and civil society aim at leveraging resources for the SDG implementation. Organisational effectiveness will improve further through better use and implementation of evaluation findings, effective fraud risk assessment practices, concise follow up on audit recommendations, strengthened organizational culture and high levels of transparency. |
| Effets directs de l'engagement actuel de la Suisse |
Switzerland will continue to engage with UNICEF on the following priorities: In order to enhance system-wide coherence, Switzerland will closely follow the 4 F+Ps monitoring and reporting on the QCPR as well as results achieved jointly with other agencies. |
| Direction/office fédéral responsable |
DDC |
| Partenaire de projet |
Partenaire contractuel Organisme des Nations Unies (ONU) |
| Budget | Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF 13’000’000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF 0 Budget de l'Organisation CHF 22’865’000’000 Projet total depuis la première phase Budget de la Suisse CHF 734’950’000 Budget y compris partenaires de projet CHF 76’000’000 |
| Donateur d'ordre |
In 2023: 7th (government donors, core funding) |
| Donateurs |
(core, 2023) |
| Coordination avec autres projets et acteurs |
Switzerland coordinates its positions with the Western European and Others Group (WEOG), and establishes cross-regional alliances. Switzerland regularly exchanges with the Swiss National Committee for UNICEF. |
| Phases du projet | Phase 27 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2025 (Phase en cours) Phase 26 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024 (Completed) Phase 25 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2021 (Completed) Phase 24 01.01.2018 - 31.12.2020 (Completed) Phase 22 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016 (Completed) |
