Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF)
The contribution to the WPHF is to support women peacebuilders, humanitarians and human rights defenders working at the forefront of Women, Peace, Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) issues. The WPHF, managed by UN Women, provides funding to local civil society organizations for women’s participation and leadership in situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis, contributing to a nexus approach.
Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
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Global |
Gender nothemedefined
Sexual & gender-based violence
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15.10.2024
- 31.12.2025 |
CHF 700’000
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- An enabling environment for implementation of WPA commitments is created.
- Women participate in and inform decision-making processes & responses related to conflict prevention.
- Humanitarian/crisis response planning, frameworks and programming are gender inclusive & responsive.
- Representation and leadership of women is increased in formal and informal peace negotiations.
- Women and girls’ safety, physical and mental health and security are assured and their human rights respected.
- The socio-economic recovery & political participation of women and girls are promoted in post-conflict situations SDC funding will be earmarked to outcomes 3 & 5.
- Gender equality advocates have the resources and capacity to promote evidence-based advocacy
- Women participate and lead in effective early-warning and conflict prevention mechanisms
- Gender analysis assessments conducted to inform multi-sectoral humanitarian/crisis response planning and programming
- Women and girls at risk of GBV and GBV survivors have access to justice, appropriate health and psycho-social support services
- Women participate in peace-building & recovery planning
- Since 2016, over 914 civil society organizations in 41 countries have been supported
- 72% of WPHF partners operate at subnational and local levels
- Over 47% of CSOs accessed finance by the UN for the first time
- Average size of grants: USD 130’000
- 16.4% of grants were institutional, 83.6% programmatic
- In 2023, 188 new grants to 293 civil society organizations were given
- United Nations Development Programme
- The Secretariat of the WPHF is hosted by UN Women, which offers technical expertise and political support to the WPHF.
- WPHF supports the implementation of National Action Plans on women, peace and security (WPS) in coordination with the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), which SDC and the Peace and Human Rights Division (PRHD) jointly support.
- With a geographic soft earmarking, the WPHF will aim to support projects in four SDC priority countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan.
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Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Ending violence against women and girls
Cross-cutting topics Human rights
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Project number 7F11417
Background | Humanitarian crises and threats to peace are more widespread than ever before. Emerging and protracted conflicts, the rise of authoritarian regimes, global emergencies and humanitarian crises pose grave and unprecedented threats to international security, sustainable development and human rights. While the number of people forcibly displaced is the highest on record, women and girls continue to face disproportionate negative impacts. |
Objectives | The overall goal of the WPHF is to contribute to peaceful and gender equal societies. |
Target groups | Women-led civil society organizations, women organizations and women human rights defenders and peacebuilders in remote areas where services are often disrupted or non-existent. |
Medium-term outcomes |
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Results |
Expected results: Selected key outputs include, but are not limited to: Results from previous phases: |
Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
Project partners |
Contract partner United Nations Organization (UNO) Implementing partner
UNDP Multi-Partner Trust Fund (UNDP MPTF), who receives financial contributions to the WPHF from donors and assists the WPHF in allocating funding to implementing entities.
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Coordination with other projects and actors |
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Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 700’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 699’300 Total project since first phase Swiss budget CHF 0 Budget inclusive project partner CHF 700’000 |