Progetti

Araket for better life in new settlements

01.01.2022 - 31.01.2027

Residents of the new settlements are the most vulnerable and are largely invisible to state support. Due to lack of legal status in their place of residence and lack of awareness, these residents have limited access to public services. Switzerland decided to support these left-behind population by raising awareness of their rights, providing access to public services, involving local governments in improving living conditions, creating economic opportunities for women and thus reducing their vulnerabilities.

Core Contribution to International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024

The International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) is an innovative, independent, multilateral financing vehicle to mobilise additional resources at scale in support of the resilience, development and independence of public interest media in low- and middle-income countries, where they often face existential threat with grave implications for democracy and development. SDC’s support will leverage Switzerland’s engagement for freedom of expression and democracy.

Core Contribution to Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) 2022-2024

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024

By supporting Ground Truth Solutions, Switzerland aims to enable humanitarian actors to systematically consider feedback of affected populations. Adapting humanitarian interventions based on such feedback contributes to making programming more relevant and adapted to the needs on the ground. This, in turn, contributes to the larger goal of better, more efficient, more effective and more accountable humanitarian aid. Ground Truth Solutions provides the methodology and the necessary expertise to drive this agenda forward.

Social Performance Task Force (SPTF)

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2025

Savings, loans, insurance and digital finance are key enablers for low-income households to improve their livelihoods and for micro-entrepreneurs to run their businesses. The SPTF promotes client-centric and responsibly offered financial services through the application of the Universal Standards for Social and Environmental Performance Management. This will contribute to serve 60% of adults (70% women) in low-income countries not having access yet to financial services.

Contribution to UNAIDS the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 2022-2024

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024

Despite significant progress, HIV/AIDS continues to be a public health, human rights and development challenge. Geneva-based UNAIDS leads a multisectoral and multistakeholder response to HIV/AIDS through the provision of strategic information, analyses and political advocacy. UNAIDS contributes to prevent and reduce new HIV infections, AIDS-related deaths and related stigma and discrimination and as such, significantly contributes to end the epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 worldwide.

Contributiont o the Crisis Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

01.01.2022 - 30.04.2026

The United Nations and national Governments in fragile and conflict affected settings need advanced context analysis expertise in order to inform and devise sustainable peacebuilding policies and programmes. This is the mission of the Peace Development Advisors deployed in a joint effort of UNDP and the UN’s Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA). By supportingt his expert pool, Switzerland enhances the work of the multilateral system in the most difficult contexts.

Yearly Contribution to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 2022

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022

Programme Éducation de Qualité, Inclusive, Protectrice et Equitable - EQUIPE

01.01.2022 - 30.09.2028

Au Burkina Faso, plus de 3 millions d’enfants de 6 à 16 ans sont exclus de l’école du fait de la crise sécuritaire et des faiblesses structurelles du système éducatif. Pour y faire face, la Suisse soutient le renforcement de l’accès, de la qualité et de la gouvernance de l’éducation, afin d’assurer une éducation inclusive, équitable et protectrice. Cet appui vise à donner aux jeunes de meilleures perspectives d’insertion socioprofessionnelle et à leur offrir des alternatives à la migration irrégulière et à l’adhésion aux groupes extrémistes violents.

Remotecoders: IT talents from the MENA Region

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2025

Remotecoders offers a solution to the geographic mismatch between ICT talents in North Africa and ICT jobs in Europe. Local vulnerable youth, women, refugees and migrants in North African countries are recruited, trained and connected to remote ICT work opportunities in Europe and local jobs. With this contribution, SDC is addressing the challenges of job creation, digitalization, migration and protection of vulnerable groups by testing an innovative partnership (Private Sector Engagement).

Core contribution to the UNV Special Voluntary Fund 2022-2024

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024

The United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Programme promotes volunteerism as a means to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Swiss contribution to the Special Voluntary Fund (SVF) enables UNV to support member states and the UN system to harness the power of volunteerism through the mobilization of national and international volunteers and the integration of volunteerism into national and global policies.  

International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Core contribution 2022 - 2024

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024

CGIAR’ is a global research for development partnership for a food secure future in the fields of agriculture, nutrition, environment and their adaptation to climate change and the enhancement of ecosystem resilience. With its new strategy, governance and research portfolio, the CGIAR has a singular role in providing international and global public goods through high-quality agricultural research, partnership, and leadership in the areas of poverty and hunger reduction.  Switzerland is a founding member of the CGIAR and many Swiss scientific institutions are involved in common research programs. 

Formation continue en Genre et Developpement en Afrique francophone

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2026

Le Projet contribue par des cours de formation continue de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement (IHEID) a une meilleure expertise et intégration de la problématique de l’inégalités des sexes dans les politiques et programmes de développement dans les pays francophones d'Afrique (Ouest et Grands Lacs) ainsi qu’un meilleur ancrage dans les institutions locales. Le projet est aligné avec l’engagement de la Suisse pour l’égalité entre les sexes.