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.
| Paese/Regione | Tema | Periodo | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
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Mondo |
Istruzione Sanità nothemedefined
Politica dell'istruzione
Nutrizione di base Assistenza sanitaria primaria |
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.
- Fondo delle Nazioni Unite per l’infanzia
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Settore in base alle categorie del Comitato di Aiuto allo sviluppo (DAC) dell'OCSE ISTRUZIONE
SALUTE
SALUTE
Sotto-Settore in base alle categorie del Comitato di Aiuto allo sviluppo (DAC) dell'OCSE Politica dell'istruzione e gestione amministrativa
Nutrizione di base
Infrastruttura per i servizi sanitari di base
Temi trasversali Diritti dell'uomo
Il progetto sostiene anche miglioramenti nell'organizzazione partner
Tipo di aiuto Contributo generale
Numero del progetto 7F03591
| Area di competenza | 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. |
| Priorità strategiche della Svizzera e dell'organizazione e loro coerenza | 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, |
| Risultati dell'impegno dell'organizzazione nella fase precedente | 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. |
| Risultati dell'impegno svizzero nella fase precedente | 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. |
| Effetti a medio termine ottenuti dall'attuale impegno dell'organizzazione |
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. |
| Effetti a medio termine ottenuti dall'attuale impegno svizzero |
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. |
| Direzione/Ufficio responsabile |
DSC |
| Partner del progetto |
Partner contrattuale Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite (ONU) |
| Budget | Fase in corso Budget Svizzera CHF 13’000’000 Budget svizzero attualmente già speso CHF 0 Budget dell'organizzazione CHF 22’865’000’000 Progetto totale dalla prima fase Budget Svizzera CHF 734’950’000 Budget inclusi partner del progetto CHF 76’000’000 |
| Posizione della Svizzera nella graduatoria dei maggiori donatori |
In 2023: 7th (government donors, core funding) |
| Donatori |
(core, 2023) |
| Coordinamento con altri progetti e attori |
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. |
| Fasi del progetto | Fase 27 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2025 (Fase in corso) Fase 26 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024 (Completed) Fase 25 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2021 (Completed) Fase 24 01.01.2018 - 31.12.2020 (Completed) Fase 22 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016 (Completed) |
