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Contribution to the UNICEF Emergency response in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
01.06.2025
- 31.12.2025
Switzerland supports UNICEF’s emergency intervention in the OPT, in response to the ongoing armed conflict. UNICEF provides life-saving support in WASH, health, nutrition, education, child protection, social protection and cash transfers at the benefit of conflict affected children and their caregivers. The contribution is part of the Federal Council’s decision from 21 May 2025 to grant CHF 9 million to humanitarian organizations in the OPT.
Contribution to the Swiss Red Cross for the health emergency response of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
01.06.2025
- 31.12.2026
Switzerland supports the Swiss Red Cross in its contribution to the health emergency response of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the response to the war in the Gaza Strip and the violence in the West Bank, incl. East Jerusalem. The contribution is part of the Federal Council’s decision of 21 May 2025 to grant CHF 9 million in humanitarian relief assistance in the OPT.
Ancrage civique, opportunités pour la jeunesse et inclusion territoriale : une stratégie de développement multiniveaux pour la Tunisie
01.06.2025
- 31.05.2027
Le projet propose la contribution à la stabilité, l’inclusion sociale et la résilience locale en Tunisie, en réponse à la limitation d’accès à l’espace civique, à la précarité des jeunes et aux inégalités éducatives. Il combine trois axes : la réactivation d’espaces civiques pour l’expression et la participation, la mise en place de parcours professionnels pour les jeunes à travers stages et résidences encadrés, et la transformation participative d’écoles publiques avec les communautés locales. Cette approche relie action civique, insertion économique et éducation inclusive dans une logique de proximité, de co-construction culturelle et citoyenne.
Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics, Phase 2
01.06.2025
- 31.05.2027
Inequalities within and between countries threaten global security and progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, while also worsening the impact of HIV and other pandemics. In 2023, SDC cofounded the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics to promote evidence-based, inequalitysensitive policies. Through media and political engagement, the Council supports pandemic prevention and response efforts, focusing on AIDS, COVID-19, tuberculosis, and other global health threats.
Sudan and Chad, Solidarités International, WASH Cholera Response in Darfur and Eastern Chad.
01.06.2025
- 31.07.2026
Solidarités International (SI) will provide Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene services to limit and prevent the spread of cholera among members of communities affected by – and at risk of – water borne diseases In areas of Eastern Chad and Western Sudan. The intervention will target both host communities, IDPs/returnees and refugees through a coordinated response in North and Central Darfur, Eastern Chad as well as along the Geneina-Adré axis in Chad and Sudan.
SSD, Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA): Enhancing Food Security, Livelihoods and Protection of vulnerable communities in Lakes State
01.06.2025
- 31.05.2028
Switzerland’s contribution to Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), aims to improve food security and livelihoods among vulnerable IDPs, returnees, refugees and host households1 in Lakes State of South Sudan. It enhances the safety, as well as the psychosocial and economic empowerment of SGBV2 survivors, mostly adolescent girls. It will also improve survivors access to basic and legal services. Peacebuilding activities are promoted among youth and women for resilient communities.
DIKO - Réponse communautaire de protection et de renforcement de la résilience des populations affectées par les déplacements à Tillabéri
15.05.2025
- 14.05.2027
Les conflits armés dans la région de Tillabéri au Niger ne cessent d’accroitre le nombre de personnes déplacées internes et d’exposer les populations, notamment les femmes et les filles, à toutes formes de violence. A travers ce projet mené par une ONG nigérienne, la Suisse soutient la résilience des populations affectées via le renforcement de leurs moyens d’existence et des mécanismes communautaires de prévention et de réponse aux risques de protection.
Schools for Health (Shkollat për Shëndetin)
01.05.2025
- 31.12.2027
Nearly one third of the population in Albania is smoking, overweight or suffers from high blood pressure. Adopting healthy behaviours is crucial to combat non-communicable diseases. In the exit phase, the Ministries of Health and of Education will strengthen coordination mechanisms for health promotion in schools. Schools’ staff and healthcare professionals will implement jointly local action plans. Children, parents and communities will increasingly adopt healthy behaviours.
Programme d’Appui aux Organisations et Populations Pastorales (PAO2P3)
01.05.2025
- 30.04.2029
La Suisse soutient les populations pastorales afin qu’elles accèdent à des formations de qualité et à des opportunités d’emplois. Ces populations sont marginalisées par les politiques nationales et ré-gionales. Le programme PAO2P-3 vise la formation et l’emploi des jeunes (agro)pasteur-e-s dans les zones transfrontalières entre le Burkina Faso, le Bénin, le Mali, le Niger et le Togo. Il renforce leur résilience économique et contribue à réduire leur marginalisation et les conflits.
Smallholder SustaiNability Up-scaling Pro-gramme (SSNUP)
01.05.2025
- 30.04.2029
Recognising the gap in financing sustainable and resilient food systems globally, this multi-donor, public pri-vate partnership initiative is designed to catalyse private-sector investment in food systems, including from Swiss investors. By leveraging private investments and providing technical assistance to small and medium agribusiness enterprises, rural financial intermediaries and farmer organisations, the project promotes new income opportunities and better services for smallholder farmers and their application of more sustainable and nutrition-sensitive farm practices.
Resilient, Inclusive Markets in Moldova – Phase 2
01.05.2025
- 30.04.2029
Moldova’s growth continues being volatile and jobless. More and better jobs are needed for the rural population, disproportionately affected by the effects of extreme climate events and by the war in Ukraine. The project’s second phase will enhance an inclusive, competitive and resilient economic development, by improving regulatory frameworks and business support services which benefit economic activities in rural areas.
Development of WASH facilities and services in child-friendly schools in Abkhazia, Georgia
01.05.2025
- 30.04.2028
Since 2020, Swiss humanitarian assistance, in collaboration with UNICEF, has improved WASH facilities in nearly half of Abkhazian public schools, ensuring safer learning environments. The final phase will enhance sanitary and hygiene conditions in the remaining schools with critically inadequate sanitation, hindering learning and posing health risks for children. Additionally, it will introduce innovative and affordable sewage and fecal sludge treatment systems.
