Proyectos

Strengthening Oversight Function and Transparency of the Parliament

01.11.2015 - 15.01.2020

To benefit Citizens whom they represent, parliamentarians have an important stake in law making including accurate consultation mechanisms. Equally important is their oversight function over the executive's expenditures. Also, the representation of Citizens as per their political power and regional affiliation reflects important features of an effective parliament. The intervention will address identified shortcomings both in the National Assembly as well as in local assemblies of Serbia, thus enhancing their democratic legitimation.

Support to Integrate Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) in WFP

01.11.2015 - 31.12.2016

Switzerland aims at supporting WFP’s capacity to integrate Protection, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and Gender in its programmes. The support is relevant because WFP is currently in the process of combining these dimensions, which is in line with Switzerland’s understanding of an efficient and effective humanitarian programming.

South Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) Contribution 2015

16.10.2015 - 31.12.2015

The various humanitarian interventions in South Sudan require an excellent donor coordination and justifiable prioritization procedure. The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) South Sudan, established in 2012, does not only provide timely and substantial financial provisions for humanitarian projects, it also brings together several important stakeholders involved in the humanitarian response in South Sudan. Contributing to the CHF means to strengthen this mechanism and enable financial support to the most critical interventions, but it also ensures the inclusion of SDC in decision making processes and facilitates a coordinated and strengthened advocacy within the international community.

Malteser: Strenghtening Disaster Resilient Communities and Local Risk Management to Minimize Loss and Damage in Rakhine State

09.10.2015 - 31.12.2017

The project links disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. It will seek to strengthen the resilience of communities to disasters through the development of adaptation plans, trainings and afforestation/reforestation of mangroves. The construction/rehabilitation of disaster resistant infrastructures will make evacuation points more accessible. And finally, the capacities of local authorities responsible for the coordination of the response in case of emergency will be strengthened.

LEB Direct Action - contribution to improved access to water and sanitation services in Bekaa Valley

01.10.2015 - 31.12.2020

The delivery of Water and Sanitation services by the Bekaa Water Establishment (BWE) has been partly disrupted since the massive arrival of refugees from Syria, due to a high demand on an establishment whose structure and daily operation procedures are inefficient. SDC intends to support the much needed development of the BWE to improve the quality of its services to all, Lebanese host communities as well as refugee populations.

Nigeria UNHAS: access to northeast through provision of humanitarian flights

01.10.2015 - 31.12.2015

As UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations scale up their activities for an effective response, there is difficulty to access the crisis-affected areas due to road insecurity and long waiting at checkpoints, often subject to insurgent attacks. This operation is established to ensure humanitarian access to north-east Nigeria through the provision of safe and reliable air transport services as well as to provide capacity for evacuation of humanitarian staff when required.

LEB- UNDP -Improving Living Conditions in Palestinian Gatherings

01.10.2015 - 30.09.2018

In Lebanon, 455'000 Palestine refugees are officially registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Some 250'000 of them live in 12 official camps; others live in and around cities and towns, often in areas called gatherings. There are 42 such gatherings in Lebanon where over 140'000 Palestine refugees live (as well as poor Lebanese and Palestine refugees from Syria). Through this project, SDC aims at contributing to improved living conditions in these gatherings by providing basic urban services.

Nepal, Early Recovery and Expertise Reconstruction post-earthquake

01.10.2015 - 31.03.2018

Immediately after the 25^th of April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the Humanitarian Aid of SDC deployed a rapid response team to the affected area consisting of experts in the field of shelter, medicine and water and sanitation. This intervention is followed by an early recovery and reconstruction program which focuses during eleven months on knowledge transfer on seismic sound reconstruction and the provision of access to remote and mountainous areas affected by the earthquake.

ACTED, South Sudan: Improving food security in Akobo Counties, Jonglei State

01.10.2015 - 31.05.2017

Akobo County hosts a growing number of IDPs, 45,000 as of June, 2015. Being an opposition SPLA stronghold and cut off from government services, the populations in Akobo (hosts & IDP’s) experience widespread food insecurity due to the depletion of household food stocks, limited functioning markets, high market prices, depleted livelihood options and diminishing purchasing power of most households. This project aims at contributing to the improvement of the resilience of affected populations through enhanced productivity and alternative livelihood options.

WFP-Secondment Logistics Capacity Development Programme Officer

01.10.2015 - 07.02.2017

Asia and the Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. National Governments in the region are increasingly eager to take the lead in emergency response to natural disasters. In support of this objective, WFP aims at building emergency logistics capacities in at-risk states, and to support national and regional entities in preparing to conduct humanitarian logistics operations in an efficient and coordinated manner. The SDC secondment to the WFP Regional Office in Bangkok will support the development and implementation of an emergency logistics training program for governments and other partners.

Water and Energy Security through Microhydels in the Hindukush, Pakistan (Phase 02)

01.10.2015 - 30.06.2019

The people of the Laspur and Yarkhun valleys of Chitral benefit from new development opportunities provided by an efficient use of clean hydro-power energy. The project will focus on the frame conditions and the factors which determine the efficiency and sustainability of the new installations and power utility companies and on the equitable use of the generated energy for inclusive social and commercial development.

Community driven and emergency WASH intervention for displacement-affected people in Iraq

01.10.2015 - 31.08.2017

There are currently 7.2 million people across Iraq in need of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) assistance. Through this project, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) will provide a comprehensive WASH response to improve the public health of an estimated 25,200 conflict affected people in Iraq.