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Community-Led Coastal Management in the Gulf of Mottama In the rapid transition to a market economy and more democratic systems, control over Myanmar’s land, forest and fisheries is contested by citizens, government and the commercial private sector. In the productive and globally significant Gulf of Mottama, this program supports the development of local institutions for sustainable resource management with an emphasis on equitable access to fisheries and improved livelihoods of the rural poor.
Contribution au Réseau Ouest et Centre Le contexte ouest et centre africain est confronté à diverses faiblesses sur le plan de l’éducation de base et la formation professionnelle. A travers la production de recherches de qualité, le ROCARE est en mesure de formuler des recommandations opérationnelles. La diffusion des résultats de recherches auprès des décideurs et des praticiens du secteur est assurée par le Réseau qui restitue ses réflexions dans le cadre de forums. L’utilisation effective des recherches pour la formulation des politiques d’éducation/formation reste un défi. Le ROCARE est actif dans 16 pays dont les 4 pays DAO, les Bucos exploiteront les études et pourront solliciter le ROCARE sur des thèmes spécifiques
Programa AGUASAN - Honduras Das aktuelle Programm läuft seit 1998:, Investitionen werden im Bereich der Versorgung mit Trinkwasser und Siedlungshygiene getätigt. Hauptziel der neuen Phase ist es, einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Gesundheit und zur Reduktion der Armut zu leisten. Geplant ist konkret, innerhalb der beiden Schwerpunktregionen Infrastruktur für mindestens 20'000 Personen zu erstellen. Von den Begleitmassnahmen – Ausbildungsprogramme und Sensibilisierungskampagnen – profitieren zusätzliche 25'000 Personen: durch eine Verbesserung der Wasserqualität (mittels fachgerechter Chlorierung), grössere Kontinuität der Versorgung (durch professionalisierten Unterhalt und Betrieb) und verbesserte Hygiene (Verhaltensänderungen im Haushalt). Insgesamt wird also für mindestens 45’000 Menschen der Zugang zu Trinkwasserdienstleistungen und Siedlungshygiene verbessert.
“Sustainable Transformation of Egypt’s Aquaculture Market System” - STREAMS No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
RDC: Handicap Int. Accès Humanitaire No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Global Co-operative Movement for Health No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles among Young Men and Women Persisting macho stereotypes are a serious societal problem in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many young men display violent attitudes towards women, and these same young men are also inclined to neglect their own health. The SDC is changing attitudes and encouraging healthy lifestyles among young people by supporting a series of educational initiatives.
LEB Legal Agenda Gender Justice No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
NRC - Ensuring Legal Protec Syr Ref No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Thin lines that change lives In Nepal, trail bridges are vital for rural mobility. Almost 80 of them were severely damaged or destroyed during the earthquakes of 2015, jeopardizing access to education, health services and local markets for thousands of inhabitants in the mountainous regions. The SDC joined the reconstruction efforts, basing its intervention on the long-standing expertise it has in the country.
Gestion des eaux de ruissellement dans le Sahel tchadien 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.
Bangladesh:IOM Appeal on Rohingya crisis No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
ZIM RLF Supplementary feeding programme No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
OHCHR Program Contribution oPt No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Vocational Skills Development (VSD) The second phase of the project focuses on consolidating the results achieved thus far in the development of the short-term skills development and career guidance services. Moreover it will upgrade the schools’ capacities in provision of long-term vocational trainings in the selected most demanded occupations. Interventions in six Western aimags, Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, South-Gobi and Choir will enhance the employability of around 180’000 young and adult women and men.
COL/VE:CISP Asistencia Human. frontera No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Improving social protection for Roma in Albania Albania’s social safety net has to be strengthened so as to address conditions perpetuating poverty and vulnerability among marginalized communities. The current social protection policy focuses mainly on providing financial aid. The Support to Roma Social Inclusion Project, which is implemented by United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), supports a social care reform that addresses the needs of the socially most disadvantaged population.
Sajha Sawal-Towards Federalism No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
DRC Réponse protection No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Providing for Health P4H Providing for Health P4H is a global network of multi- and bilateral development partners and banks who are working on social health protection. The network was founded in 2008 at the G8 in Heiligendamm by France and Germany and comprises currently the following partner: WHO, ILO, WB, AFDB, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain and the United States of America. The network is supporting currently 23 countries in their creation and extension of social health protection systems.
Contributions de programme aux ONG suisses The SDC negotiates programme contributions as part of institutional partnerships. For the assessment and negotiation of programme contributions, which is based on the NGO's overall programme, the organisation is required to have a long-standing track record and have successfully undergone the admission procedure. Programme contributions are an investment in the competences and capacities of the NGOs and in the relevance of their programmes.
BO 108 Gestión Ambiental Municipal No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Niger Gouvernance No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Public Investment in Energy Efficiency Public Investment in Energy Efficiency (PIE) is a SDC and GIZ co-financed pilot project running from January 2014 to December 2016 (Phase-1). PIE will demonstrate how newly decentralized public funds can be utilized for much-needed investments in energy efficiency of public buildings in two remote western provinces of Mongolia. The project will empower the local population to actively participate in planning and budgeting of priority investments, which will result in improved well being and living standards for rural citizens.
GE Vocational Education and Training No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
OPT: Safe Spaces Gaza No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Integrated Water Resource Management in the Barind tract A novelty for Bangladesh, this project will bring the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management to the sub-district and community level. Poverty in the Barind tracts is higher than national average and water scarcity uncovers economic, ecological and equity issues. Elected local governments will be capacitated to regulate water use and increase availability of water for the benefit of about a million people in the target region.
Crédit global pour petites actions Activités de communication et de sensibilisation destinées à informer le public dans le pays donneur sur les efforts de coopération pour le développement et à rendre la population plus consciente des besoins et problèmes du développement.
Victim Assistance Projects Humanitarian Aid No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
OPT: Gaza Youth Employment No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Postharvest management in Ethiopia No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
SOM-Inclusive and Accountable Governance No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
MarketMakers Poor economic performance in the recent years has led to insufficient job creation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Young women and men have been hardest hit by the economic crisis and are also over-proportionally affected by the precarious working conditions, including low wages and lack of social insurance. MarketMakers aims at stimulating the creation of new employment opportunities and demand-driven professional skills training for young people in three selected economic sectors (e.g. ICT).
Platforms for Agricultural Research for Development An improved participation of all agricultural stakeholders in research, innovation and development discussions is crucial for finding solutions to feed the 9 billion people in 2050. Therefore, two networks are supported to facilitate exchange of information and experience among agricultural stakeholders. One network addresses the youth in agricultural development worldwide with already 7200 members, and the other one Swiss actors in agricultural research for development.
Contribution to OSCE Academy After 25 years of gaining independence, the states of Central Asia are still facing the challenge of state-building, economic, political and social transformation. The region needs qualified specialists who can participate actively in the creation of a regional network of competence for comprehensive cooperation. In this context, the OSCE Academy acts as a valuable agent for improving the region‘s social and political climate through its higher education, training and research programs.
Contribuzione CAS Cooperazione e Sviluppo, SUSPI, Lugano The “Federazione delle ONG della Svizzera italiana” (FOSIT) alone unites more than 60 NGO based in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland and active in development and cooperation. The CAS in Cooperation and Development fills a gap for qualitative and certified advanced learning in Italian language in this domain.
Protection & Scolarisation inclusive Lac No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Development Effectiveness Activities and Focal Point Development Effectiveness (DE) Switzerland has committed to the principles of Aid Effectiveness (AE) in Paris (2005), Accra (2008) and 2011 in Busan. The main focus will be improving Transparency, Aid predictability and Use of Country Systems and addressing the priority issues Results&Mutual Accountability, Fragility/New Deal, Climate Change Finance and Public-Private Cooperation in coherence with the Federal Council Dispatch 2013-2016. The focal point AE supports the implementation process within SDC in coordination with SECO/WE as well as with other national and international partners.
Formación Técnica Profesional No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Integral water management Since 2007 Bolivia is implementing a national Watershed-policy, which is based on a 20-years-project work of Swiss EZA in this area and which aims for an integral water management. Together with other providers Switzerland supports the implementation of the 2nd phase of the national plan for Watershed-management on national level and in the 4 Andean departments. This way, the resilience of 62.500 families will be improved directly and of 300.000 indirectly in the next 4 ½ years.
In China, the scientific community and the government are working together to tackle climate change The SDC is applying the latest scientific methods to help China understand the effects of climate change and to design and implement adaptation measures. The
Medical Education Reforms in Kyrgyzstan Although health sector reforms have prioritised family medicine, the medical education system continues to prepare narrow specialists, leading to a shortage of family doctors mainly in rural areas. The Ministry of Health initiated the medical education reforms with focus on family doctors specialty at pregraduate level and compulsory postgraduate clinical practice in the regions. Phase II of the project will finalize the medical education reform implementation process with focus on postgraduate and continuous medical education.
Medium Term Programme of SDC Quality Assurance, section and network Quality assurance (QA) supports result orientation at SDC. Starting with a good planning process (achievable results, ownership by involved partners) the regular assessment of results while implementing helps to adapt programme activities in order to make effective contributions to partner countries’ development. Other important factors for effective contributions are thematic expertise, sound risk management or well managed partnerships. QA supports achievement of results defined in the Bill to Parliament 2013 – 2016.
Support Vulnerable Communities-Gaza No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Strenghtening independent protection and conflict analysis in support of context-appropriate humanitarian interventions No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
CMES Second Chance Education Programme To enable disadvantaged rural adolescents to pursue alternative options to improve their life and livelihood, by providing a combination of basic educational, technical and life skills, and making them appreciated members of their communities. The specific objectives of the project are as follows: (1) Basic school provoding quality education and skills training for the adolescent dropouts and non-enrolled opening up livelihood opportunities, (2) Empowerment of adolescent girls to enable them to realise their potentials economically and socially and to establish gender equity, (3) Adaptation of profitable technologies for diversified opportunities for the rural youth, (4) Dissemination of the models to others including the mainstream for wider impact through replication.
Programme d’Appui à la Formation Professionnelle (PAFP) Le marché du travail au Mali est caractérisé par une main d’œuvre peu qualifiée. Dans ce contexte, 300'000 jeunes arrivent chaque année sur ce marché sans compétences. L’offre de formation par domaine et/ou filière est en deçà des attentes du secteur productif. La formation professionnelle e 40'000 personnes dont 50% de femmes à l’horizon 2017, améliore la qualité des ouvrages et augmente la compétitivité des entreprises en contribuant à l’augmentation des revenus dans les régions prioritaires de la DDC et de la coopération danoise.
Public Private Partnership to Improved Sanitary Education in Ukraine This public-private partnership, developed in collaboration with the company Geberit, aims to improve vocational training in the field of sanitary technology in Ukraine, which will provide more employment opportunities for young plumbers. A new model will be developed to achieve this, based more on practical training and market needs, and will be tested in pilot schools before being rolled out across the country with support from the Ministry of Education.
Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development - Research Module on Social Conflicts and Fragility SDC and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) are offering a new long-term funding scheme for development-relevant research on global issues (www.r4d.ch). The main focus lies on the generation of new insights and solutions as well as on the application of research results into policy and practice through partnership projects between researchers from Switzerland and from developing countries. The overall r4d.ch program consists of five thematic modules and a module for thematically open research. The first thematic module focuses on the causes and solutions to social conflicts in the context of weak public institutions.
Transforming Tanzania's Charcoal Sector The project formalizes, up-scales and promotes a tested and functioning model of a sustainable, more energy efficient charcoal value chain. A Community Based Forest Management approach contributes to the generation of higher incomes from charcoal and other forest products and related royalties invested into community development through local governance mechanisms, benefitting 80’000 villagers. The existing model of 8 Kilosa villages is extended to 22 new villages in 3 districts through practical stakeholder training.
UNHAS Contribution No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Food security in the Great Lakes Region - Nutrition The program addresses malnutrition by piloting a coordinated multi-stakeholder approach of the four UN agencies UNICEF, WHO, WFP and FAO together with the two Governments of Rwanda and Burundi. The activities will take place in two districts of Rwanda (Nyamagabe and Rutsiro) and one province of Burundi (Ngozi) where food insecurity and poverty are at highest level. The focus is on the reduction of chronic malnutrition of children under five and pregnant and lactating mothers.
Mali ACF/Solida. nutrit°/WASH GAO-TBCT-G No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Systems for OVC&Y Programming in SADC The project strengthens the Monitoring and Evaluation system for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children and Youth (OVC&Y) among Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The project includes the training of key personnel, the inclusion of standardised OVC&Y indicators into already existing national data collection and reporting systems. Through such a system, Member States will be able to make sound evidence based decisions on issues that are relevant for OVC&Y, in particular on HIV and AIDS programming.
Programme d’appui à la valorisation des produits forestiers non ligneux Au Burkina Faso, lesproduits forestiers non ligneux[1] (PFNL) constituent une importante source alimentaire pourles populations des zones affectées par les chocs climatiques et déficitairessur le plan alimentaire. Les PFNL font partie de l’alimentation de plus de43,4% des ménages ruraux et procurent de l’emploi et des revenus. Le programme contribue à l’accroissement de la sécuritéalimentaire, nutritionnelle et des revenus des ménages ruraux et périurbains[2]par la valorisation et la gestion durable des PFNL. [1] Les PFNL s’entendentpar « tout bien d’origine biologiqueautre que le bois et la faune à l’exception des insectes, dérivé des forêts etdes arbres hors forêts, constitués de végétaux spontanés, domestiqués, et ceuxdestinés au reboisement ». (Source FAO)[2] Le périurbain estun espace rural au sens où l’essentiel des sols est attribué à des activitésagricoles, mais c’est aussi un espace urbain au sens où la majorité de lapopulation active qui y habite travaille dans une ville, en effectuant desmigrations alternantes. Le milieu périurbain connait une très forte compétitionentre usage agricole et nonagricole des ressources: terres, main-d'œuvre, etc. La production agricole estorientée principalement pour le marché du centre urbain.
Improving Food Security and Land Governance through investment standards Legal and policy frameworks for agricultural investments in developing countries need to be strengthened to direct foreign investment in agriculture and food systems towards sustainable development outcomes that benefit rural poor populations. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) will perform advisory, training and research activities targeting government negotiators in developing countries and African Parliamentarians with a view to supporting the application of the CFS-rai Principles.
Concern Worldwide: NGO Forum Support This is the fourth phase of support to the NGO-Forum in South Sudan, aiming at contributing to the effectiveness and coordination of emergency humanitarian response and development programming in South Sudan. This will be achieved through sustained and enhanced engagement with all stakeholders on issues affecting NGO operations, advocacy, capacity building and information sharing.
Integrated Monitoring of Water and Sanitation related SDG targets (GEMI) Water scarcity and declining water quality are a problem in almost all countries. More comprehensive information on their current status and trends would enable Member States to better make evidence-based development decisions for sustainable development, management and use of sanitation and water resources. The 6th Sustainable Development Goal of the 2030 Agendawill provide a unique opportunity to address the multiple and growing challenges associated with sustainable water and sanitation. This includes the need for a coherent and holistic monitoring framework with improved data acquisition and the analysis to track progress.
WFP Global Meetings No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Global Water Security & San. Partnership No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Regional Program: Scientific Cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland (SCOPES), Institutional Partnerships and Research Der Schweizerische Nationalfonds setzt das seit 1990 laufende Projekt SCOPES mit Partnern aus Osteuropa und der GUS um. Im Rahmen dieser Zusammenarbeit werden Forschungsinstitutionen aus Partnerländern in ihren Aufgaben unterstützt. Als weiteres Element führen Forschungsteams aus Osteuropa und der Schweiz in gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekten Grundlagenforschung durch. Deren internationale Vernetzung trägt wesentlich dazu bei, qualitativ hochwertige Forschungsresultate nutzbar zu machen.
RCA: Mentor Santé communautaire No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
COL:CCCM Reduc. impacto MAP en Algeciras No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Technical training and Skills Development Project There is a growing political and social awareness and recognition that technical training is key to poverty reduction in Bolivia. Since 2006, SDC is working in this area with important results in training quality, relevance and extension of coverage in rural areas. This phase aims at consolidating results in rural areas, expanding work in urban areas, supporting high quality training of trainers and supporting the Ministry of Education in the implementation of its public policy.
Information & Documentation No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.