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Promoting off-farm employment and income in the Great Lakes Region through climate responsive construction material production High demographic growth in the Great Lakes increases the competition for scarce natural resources and boosts the demand for affordable housing. The project aims at triggering local economic development, improving working conditions and increasing off-farm employment through climate responsive building material production. Results of the first phase allow for a technology transfer adjusted to local needs and scaling up of the brick production value chains in the region.
SYR UNICEF WASH No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Youth Friendly Health Services in Moldova Switzerland has supported Moldova in developing its youth friendly health services (YFHSs) and scaling them up to cover the entire country. The improved access to quality healthcare led to better health outcomes in adolescents, such as decreased alcohol use and incidence of sexually transmitted infections. The two-year exit phase of this project will focus on ensuring the sustainability of YFHSs and transferring the responsibility for matching the supply and demand for such services to relevant national and local institutions.
Empowering Media in Tanzania - EMT Information provided by media contributes to improve government accountability and people’s livelihoods by providing relevant information to citizens. Yet, the media sector faces challenges including a restrictive legal environment, low professional standards and lack of economic viability. This is a contribution towards addressing those key challenges through partnering with UNESCO, Tanzania Media Foundation and the Media Council of Tanzania.
OPT WHO Gaza Trauma Care No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Women support No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Promoting Sustainable Mountain Development for Global Change (SMD4GC) Mountains are key contexts for sustainable development due to the provision of indispensable goods and services. Still, they are among the most disadvantaged regions in the world. As a mountain country, Switzerland has an intrinsic interest and a proven track record in Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD). With the new SMD4GC programme, SDC will continue its support to SMD to increase the resilience of the mountain population, which is increasingly vulnerable due to the ongoing global changes.
Contribution to OSCE Academy No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Institutional Support to Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities SDC is providing an institutional contribution to the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM) to lead policy dialogue, advocacy and represent interests of local governments (LGs) before the central government in policy and law making. SCTM will promote decentralisation in Serbia together with the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self Government, and support its member LGs to implement adopted laws and pursue reforms, ultimately bringing benefits to all citizens, men and women, in all sectors governed by LG.
Swiss Global Compact Partnership No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Swiss Bluetec Bridge: Swiss start-ups benefit disadvantaged populations In addition to the sustainable management of resources and good governance, water-related challenges open up a wide field for technological innovation, particularly in the application of nanotechnologies for water treatment, especially ones which are energy-efficient. The challenge for Swiss Bluetec Bridge is to put these cutting-edge 'Swiss' technologies at the service of the poor and ensure that they are sustainably managed. To do this the project must seek to bridge the gap between public support for start-ups and private investment.
Opening credit rural development No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
SSD:Caritas B, Food Security/livelihood No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
OPT,Children with disabilities Isl.&Pal. No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Community empowerment in the Gaza Strip SDC partnership with the Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA) enables the provision of quality services in vulnerable and marginalized areas of the Gaza Strip. CFTA’s work aims at strengthening the capacities of the Palestinian civil society in the Gaza Strip through integrated programs for children, youth, and women – in particular non formal education, psychosocial support, artistic skills development, rights awareness and fighting against domestic violence - and support to CBOs organizations and networks. CFTA is also a platform for youth and women to become active members of their communities.
Global Blue Peace: Le Pôle Eau de Genève pour l’eau, la paix et la sécurité Le Pôle Eau de Genève – Geneva Water Hub (GWH) regroupe les capacités centrales pour l’hydrodiplomatie au sein de la Genève internationale. En s’appuyant sur ses trois composantes (savoir & éducation, think tank, réseau), le GWH agit comme Secrétariat du Panel Global de Haut Niveau pour l’Eau et la Paix (7F-09770.01) et de son groupe d’amis. L’objectif de cette seconde phase est de poursuivre les réalisations du GWH pour l’hydrodiplomatie ainsi que de procéder à son institutionnalisation.
Gaza Youth Employment (UNDP) No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Strengthening Nursing in Bosnia and Herzegovina Although BiH invests significant resources in its health system, the population’s health is continuously deteriorating. As international evidence shows, nurses can tangibly improve the population’s health status at limited costs. In order to unleash the potential of BiH’s nursing workforce, the project will work in three different areas: improving the regulatory framework for nursing, reforming the formal education of nurses, and engaging nurses in the performance of health promotion and disease prevention activities.
LIBYA DRC Protection+Assist.for Migrants No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Appui aux media des Grands Lacs Les médias des pays des Grands Lacs (Rwanda, Burundi. RDC) jouent un rôle clé dans la consolidation de la paix, dans le renforcement de la citoyenneté et dans la construction de la démocratie. Les médias sont confrontés à des difficultés d’ordre professionnel, économique, politique et juridique. Ce programme contribuera à la consolidation de la liberté d’expression et au droit à l’information, tout en renforçant les compétences et la pluralité des médias.
AM Local Self Governance No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Strengthening the Right to Adequate Food, FIAN International With 815 million undernourished people in 2017, the right to food as laid in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still not realized. For the past thirty years, FIAN International has raised awareness about people’s right to food worldwide and expanded spaces for civil society to hold governments more accountable. This project will promote effective participation of rights holders in food security and nutrition policies and governance mechanisms and be complemented by SDC support to the mandate of the UN Special rapporteur on the right to food.
Sino-Swiss Low Carbon Cities (SSLCC) Program The project will contribute to the efforts made by Chinese Metropolitan Areas to reduce the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) intensity of their development through innovation and good practices from Switzerland. GHG sets in motion potentially irreversible effects including the rise of sea levels, drought or ice melting that put particular pressure on poor segments of societies worldwide. Nowadays, about 75% of GHG are emitted in urban housing, living and income generating activities. China is accountable for about 25% of the global GHG emissions.
Strengthening the Fin. Incl. of Migrants No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
WFP, Multi-Bi H-AFR, FAC&CASH (ab 2017) Through the usage of food aid in the form of dairy products, Swiss Humanitarian Aid contributes to the prevention and treatment of malnutrition, undernourishment, and disease. The SDC’s Humanitarian Aid administers the credit granted by parliament for a yearly amount of some CHF 20 million destined for the purchase of dairy products and their use for the benefit of the needy. Its task is to ensure a sustainable, targeted, and closely monitored food aid.
Donor Committee for Enterprise Development No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Land Governance Mekong Region No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
FORMIFormation Insertion des jeunes au Tchad Au Tchad, le système de l’enseignement technique et de la formation professionnelle (ETFP) ne répond ni à la demande du monde du travail, ni à la demande sociale. En s’appuyant sur des dynamiques existantes, notamment privées, la DDC contribuera durant cette phase de planification à la diversification d’une offre de formation de proximité adaptée aux contextes et répondant efficacement aux besoins de développement personnel des jeunes et des femmes en particulier et aux besoins d’une économie locale.
Programme Eau Kasserine - PEK Improvement of public water supply and management in the governorate of Kasserine, with secondary goals in the creation of local employment and revenues as well as public awareness on water issues.
Budget Support to the Health Sector in Kyrgyzstan SDC has provided support to the health care reforms in Kyrgyzstan since early 2000. Despite several political disturbances, the Kyrgyz Government has made good progress in reforming the health sector and has achieved universal coverage for basic health services. There is however still scope to further improve quality of health services to reach health outcomes (MDGs) during the next reform period (2012-2016). SDC will thus support reforms through a Sector Wide Approach under strong leadership of the Ministry of Health.
UNDP Secondment DPG Secretariat No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
REPSSI Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Junior Professional Officer Programme The aim of the programme is to increase Switzerland's presence within the UN development and humanitarian system. Moreover, this measure also meets the more general aim of strengthening the influence and quality of Switzerland's political dialogue with the target agencies. The Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Programme will eventually serve to intensify that dialogue and increase Switzerland's capacity to monitor the work of agencies at their headquarters and in the field through direct contact with the participants in the programme.
SI,WASH Emergency Response Rohingya No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
SuizAgua América Latina - El Agua nos Une Water management being one of the main challenges of the 21st century, the generation of knowledge to make decisions and collaboration between different sectors, are the axis of the present and future well-being of humanity. The initiative “El Agua Nos Une” articulates the work of public institutions, business associations and research organisations. It aims at: i) scaling corporate water stewardship in Colombia, ii) strengthening knowledge on water uses, particularly in the agricultural sector, iii) contributing to the national water quality and quantity monitoring program, iv) developing an investment scheme in ecosystem services, and, v) facilitating a community of practice on water footprint and corporate water management in Latin America
Strengthening Social Accountability and Oversight in Health and Agriculture This project aims to contribute to the equitable, effective and accountable allocation and use of public resources for health and agriculture in SADC countries by addressing social accountability in a systemic approach in strengthening the roles of relevant parliamentary committees, civil society organizations, smallholder farmer organisations and the media. The first phase of the project will focus on Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.
Water Integrity: Contribution to the Water Integrity Network and to the Country Programmes Lack of water integrity and high levels of corruption preclude quality governance of the water sector, the efficient achievement of safe water and adequate sanitation for all. Following a human-based approach, this programme aims to increase water integrity by supporting advocacy work at the global level, as well as country programmes which aim to increase transparency, accountability and participation at the national, regional and local levels.
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Fergana Valley The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) was engaged in the Fergana valley both in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan with the Regional Rural Water Supply and Sanitation project since 2007. Due to difficulties in implementing regional projects in Central Asia, SDC decided in 2012 to develop two separate country projects with a regional view. The overall objective of the project is to improve the rural population’s health and livelihood with sustainable safe drinking water and sanitation facilities as well as with the development of training for better household hygienic behavior.
Contribution to RCC programmes No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Sociedad Cultura y Memoria No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Lugano Summer School - Support for health professionals and managers from Low- and Middle-Income Countries with a SOC health focus Empowering the workforce at all levels and within each of the building blocks of the health system through training is mandatory for improving health system performance. Therefore the goal of the of the Lugano Summer School is to strengthen and sustain the capacity of health professionals in selected low and middle income countries to manage, develop and promote health services and health systems at conceptual, strategic, and operational levels.
Support to Recovery and Reconstruction in Nepal Programme (SRRNP) Three major earthquakes left over 8’500 people dead, 3 mio homeless and affected one third of the population in Nepal. Switzerland’s contribution to the recovery and reconstruction efforts will ensure the equitable distribution of services and provisions especially from a gender and social inclusion perspective through, the provision of direct recovery and reconstruction support to the affected people, capacity building of the local government and other service delivery agencies.
AFR70, Formation Professionnelle No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Menstrual Health Management (single ph.) No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
TUN, ELECT, Elections libres et crédible No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
OCHA, Grand Bargain Project No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Programme d’Appui aux Filières Agropastorales de Sikasso – PAFA La DDC soutient le Conseil Régional de Sikasso et les partenaires privés locaux dans l’amélioration des conditions cadres pour le développement des filières pomme de terre et lait. Les appuis apportés contribueront à une meilleure organisation des différents segments de ces filières, de la production au marché et à la valorisation locale des produits au profit des petits producteurs et transformateurs. A terme, plus de 360'000 personnes assureront leur sécurité alimentaire et réduiront leur pauvreté.
Kenya, Swisscontact, Skills Devp Refugee No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Advancement of priority topic SGBV in HH No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Empowering and Decentralizing Local Government Institutions to Manage Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Supply Service Delivery in Hard-to-Reach Areas The Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Fund (HYSAWA) will focus on enhancing capacities of local government institutions and communities to plan and manage hygiene, sanitation and water supply service delivery in an effective, accountable, transparent and inclusive manner for men, women and disadvantaged persons. Citizens will benefit from improved public services which are better targeted at those people who need them the most.
Strengthening citizen rights and participation in Nicaragua SDC and other like-minded donors are engaged in enhancing the democratic and public policy processes in Nicaragua. A strong civil society is essential to the quality and sustainability of this effort. The current political context drastically reduces public policy dialogues spaces. The proposed programme will promote citizen participation, strengthen capacities among Civil Society Organizations and foster informed policy dialogue.
SYR ACF Early Recovery Livelihoods No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Credit and Savings Associations No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Raising SDC profile in global forest No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Inclusive and sustainable vegetable production and marketing (VEGI) Built on the successful SDC support of the potato sector, the VEGI project intends to contribute to poverty alleviation through a growing vegetable sector in Mongolia. Supports for increased and diversified production, storage, processing, marketing, consumption and a conducive legal framework will contribute to improved livelihood of rural households and to a more diversified economy. In order to foster its poverty focus, the VEGI project promotes vegetable gardening and consumption by poor households in peri-urban areas as well.
Resources for Local Democracy At the request of the Serbian Government, SDC will support three reforms on Serbia’s path towards European integration: 1) the enforcement of a municipal finance law that awards good performance of local governments and ensures the necessary resources for democratic decisions, 2) the development of regional development policies for reducing regional disparities, including mechanisms for disaster risk prevention, and 3) high quality municipal audits aiming to achieve a rational use of public resources.
MKAJI – Maji kwa Afya ya Jamii: Upgrading Water Supply in Health Facilities of Dodoma Region Water and sanitation (WASH) is one of the most important social determinants of health. Upon request of regional authorities, SDC will upgrade water supply and sanitation systems in 100 primary health facilities in Dodoma region. This intervention will considerably reduce the high risk of infection transmission and improve quality of care in health facilities. Water management and hygiene promotion in and with communities will complement hardware investments.
Rural Markets In Bolivia, small-scale rural producers have limited access to rural markets and services. The project, to be carried out by Swisscontact and Profin (foundation for financial innovation) and other partners, aims to increase the income of 12,000 production units (at least 40% women) in the Western region by linking them to markets and services, taking advantage of favorable policies and public-private investments.
Programme d’appui à la décentralisation de l’éducation, PADE Dans un contexte d’insécurité, où plusieurs écoles sont fermées au centre et au nord du Mali, offrir une éducation de base de qualité, équitable et inclusive pour tous, est l’objectif du programme d’appui à la décentralisation de l’éducation. Avec les collectivités, les services techniques et les communautés des régions de Mopti, Tombouctou et Sikasso, cette dernière phase du programme vise à consolider les acquis des phases précédentes et permettre à plus de 700'000 enfants d’accéder à l’école.
Global Sustainable Land Management Platform for Knowledge Management and Decision Support (WOCAT) Sustainable Land Management (SLM) is essential for reducing land degradation, restoring degraded land and striving to achieve land degradation neutrality. WOCAT, the Global Sustainable Land Management Platform, is recognised by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as the primary database for SLM best practices reporting, offers robust and up-to-date knowledge, tools and methods for evidence-based decision-making to implement the most appropriate practices within a given context and to improve land resources, ecosystems and livelihoods. The phase will focus on enhancement of knowledge uptake in decision support.
HI:Estudios No Técnicos y Desminado Hum. No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.
Financial Support to the Programme of Work and Budget of the OECD Development Assistance Committee for the years 2017 - 2018 OECD DAC helps member states and their partners maximise the impact of their development co-operation. DAC focuses on reporting, analysis and promotion of financing for development, the review of development co-operation programmes, policies and practices, and the provision of good development practice to enhance the quality and effectiveness of co-operation. SDC wants to continue supporting, including financially, these important activities and reflections for the Swiss international co-operation, especially in order to implement the SDGs.
African Forests, People and Climate Change The African forestry sector holds considerable potential for mitigating and facilitating adaptation to adverse impacts of climate change that severely threaten the development of Sub-Saharan Africa. Support to the African Forest Forum ensures that policies and action base on the improved understanding about the relationship between climate change, forests and trees and that these elements will be reflected in their revised nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the climate convention.
Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies (SDG 16+) The “Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies” is a group of countries, international organizations, and other stakeholders. The Pathfinders promote more peaceful, just and inclusive societies, as stipulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is intended that the initiative will turn into a movement to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 16, which will be reviewed at the High-Level Political Forum 2019. Switzerland – as an advocate of SDG 16 – is a co-convener, a founding member and a donor to the initiative.
YR IMPACT Area of Origin No description for this activity available at this point. Description indisponible pour cette activité.