The project database provides concrete insights into the international cooperation work of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). You can filter for projects by topic, country and project owner (either the SDC or SECO).
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SIRA - Somalia Information and Resilience Building Action
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2026
Rangeland degradation, drought and other effects of climate change are further exacerbating food insecurity in Somalia. Through the present intervention the communities’ resilience is increased by enhancing climate sustainable livestock production, fodder productivity and public service delivery leading to improved household incomes. Switzerland aims to support communities’ capacities to cope with climatic shocks and as such contributes to stability and peace in Somalia.
Résilience Communautaire Transfrontière en Afrique de l’Ouest
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2026
Avec l’expansion d’actes d’extrémisme violent en Afrique de l’Ouest, l’accroissement d’actions de proximité dans les espaces transfrontaliers (abritant 80% des conflits) devient un impératif. La Suisse engagée depuis 2015 dans le développement transfrontalier au Sahel, a acquis de l’expérience dans l’apport de solutions appropriées. La présente intervention vise à renforcer cet engagement dans le couloir sahélo-côtier Burkina-Faso, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo et Bénin.
Project completed
JOR Medair: Social protection program towards improving resilience of refugees and vulnerable Jordanians
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2025
The project initiates a third phase during which Medair Jordan will continue to reach new households in Amman, Irbid and Mafraq with case management and cash for protection, including emergency cash assistance, while focusing on livelihoods solutions to improve the resilience of refugees and vulnerable Jordanians. The project will also build and strengthen the institutional capacities of local actors to provide social protection services through coordination and experience and knowledge exchange.
Project completed
Increasing access to patented medicines with the pharmaceutical sector
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2025
A patent protects medical products but may limit their access in low-resource settings. Medicines Patent Pool negotiates voluntary licenses with patent holders, including Swiss companies, that it grants to generic manufacturers to reduce prices. SDC support will enable people in low- and middle-income countries to access quality-assured, appropriate, affordable, safe, and effective medical products to fight non-communicable diseases, COVID-19, and antimicrobial resistance.
Contribution to implementation of SCTM Strategic Plan
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2026
This contribution will support the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM) to implement its cross-sectoral strategic plan, promoting decentralization, good governance and local governance reforms and assisting the implementation of the Serbian Government’s Local Government Reform Programme. SCTM will improve capacities of local governments (LG) to act efficiently, accountably, in the best interest of citizens, and defend LG interests at the central level.
Project completed
Contribution 2023 to the Peer2-Peer Support Project
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2023
SDC’s objective in supporting the Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is to bolster up Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) efforts in strengthening the collective humanitarian response in field operations. P2P is the only interagency support mechanism that exists to support HCs and HCTs in the delivery of principled, quality, timely, and predictable collective humanitarian action through peer support.
GAIN - Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2027
Climate change, Covid-19, conflicts are reversing progress on malnutrition, underlining the growing urgency to transform food systems to tackle human development and planetary needs. Switzerland supports GAIN’s activities with governments, businesses, civil society and partners to ensure consistent access to affordable, safe, nutritious and sustainable food for healthier diets, in particular for the most vulnerable, through more inclusive policies and regulations, effective markets and innovative financing.
IDEA - Contribution to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2026
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is the only inter governmental organization specialized in democracy support and thus key for realizing Switzerland’s foreign policy objective of promoting democracy. IDEA’s diverse constituency of countries from the Global South & North, its practice oriented expertise and its convening of policy dialogues at all levels, offers Switzerland an ideal dialogue platform and implementing partner on democratic governance.
Project completed
Program Contribution to Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse 2023-2024
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2024
Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse (MSF-CH) delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics & disasters and to communities excluded from health services. It focuses on medical and surgical assistance as well as on strengthening of local healthcare. MSF-CH cares for mothers & children, provides sexual, reproductive & paediatric care, responds to epidemics such as Covid-19, and treats non-communicable diseases & mental health conditions. It brings to attention neglected crises and advocates for improved medical treatments and protocols.
Appui au secteur des médias dans la région des Grands Lacs
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2026
Les médias sont des acteurs clés dans le contexte sociopolitique complexe de la région des Grands Lacs pour la consolidation de la paix. En soutenant les trois pays dans ce secteur, la Suisse souhaite contribuer à la promotion d’une pluralité démocratique fondée sur des réformes inclusives favorables à l’exercice des médias libres et indépendants, à l’accès aux informations de qualité aux populations, tenant compte des enjeux sociopolitiques importants auxquels ils font face.
Project completed
Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG)
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2025
Switzerland with its longstanding engagement and experience in land and natural resource management will support a last phase of the “Mekong Region Land Governance” project. This Swiss flagship project will continue to support Alliances of Reform-Actors, including policy-makers and civil society, to improve policy-making environment and implementation toward improved land tenure security for vulnerable family farmers in the Mekong region, particularly in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam.
Project completed
Contribution to UNRWA’s Emergency Interventions in Lebanon 2023
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2023
Due to the several crises that have affected Lebanon over the past three years, the needs of Palestinian refugees have become more urgent. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is crucial to respond to the most basic needs of Palestine refugees as well as to maintain regional stability. Thus, in response to UNRWA's Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan Emergency Appeal 2023, Switzerland designates its support to the urgent needs of Palestine refugees in Lebanon, including the provision of cash assistance.
