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Culture and Small Action Project

Project completed

SDC's Small Action Projects are a flexible and efficient tool to respond to local needs that couldn’t be directly addressed by the main programmes within the Swiss Cooperation Strategy (CS), while Culture Projects support local cultural initiatives and Swiss-Mongolian exchanges.

Country/region Topic Period Budget
Mongolia
Culture / development awareness
Education
Governance
Health
Vocational training
Human rights
nothemedefined
Rule of Law - Democracy - Human rights
Culture & recreation
Basic life skills
Tertiary education
Decentralisation
Public sector policy
Health systems strengthening
Medical services
Vocational training
Human rights (incl. Women's rights)
01.01.2013 - 31.12.2016
 CHF  800’000
The project in brief
Background

The small actions were also helpful as a flexible tool to address SDC’s past cross-cutting themes of governance, human rights and gender, as well as supporting Swiss-Mongolian cultural exchanges, which promoted the Swissness and Swiss presence in Mongolia.
Objectives

Culture and Small Action Project in the Phase 4 will concentrate on funding cultural and artistic initiatives.

The Culture Project will aim to strengthen both local cultural identity and diversity, and to promote intercultural exchanges between Switzerland and Mongolia
Target groups
  • Art houses and practicioners
  • Individual artists
  • Art academic institutions 
Medium-term outcomes

Culture Project aims to:

  1. To contribute to Mongolia’s cultural diversity and development by providing grants to Mongolian artists, art houses and practitioners; and
  2. To promote cultural exchanges between Switzerland and Mongolia through meaningful artistic and cultural expressions and initiatives.
Results

Expected results:  

Projects will be financed on competitive basis through an open call for proposals.

The call will be announced once at the beginning of each calendar year through SDC’s communications channel and local media outlets.  


Results from previous phases:  

SA projects in the past have contributed to:

  • development and introduction of new and niche products; and
  • start-up of new and larger scale development projects.

Culture projects contributed to revival and appreciation of the traditional cultural heritages, and diversified artistic and cultural expressions.
Directorate/federal office responsible SDC
Credit area Development cooperation
Project partners Contract partner
Private sector
  • Swiss Private Sector


Budget Current phase Swiss budget CHF    800’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    654’483
Project phases Phase 5 01.07.2016 - 31.12.2018   (Completed)

Phase 4 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2016   (Completed)

  • Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation EDUCATION
    HEALTH
    GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
    OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
    EDUCATION
    GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
    Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation
    Basic life skills for youth and adults
    Vocational training
    Higher education
    Health policy and administrative management
    Medical services
    Public sector policy and administrative management
    Decentralisation and support to subnational government (incl. accountability)
    Culture and recreation
    Higher education
    Human rights
    Cross-cutting topics Specific project on gender equality.
    The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
    The project supports partner organisation improvements as a priority
    The project also supports partner organisation improvements
    Type of support Official development assistance (ODA)
    Type of collaboration Bilateral cooperation
    Finance type Aid grant
    Aid Type Core contribution
    Project and programme contribution
    Tied/untied aid Untied aid
    Project number

    7F04319

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Last update 08.05.2020