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Asset Recovery Strategic Partnerships
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2029
Switzerland supports strategic partners in asset recovery who provide technical assistance to countries, advocate for international standards, and facilitate knowledge and exchange on international efforts and ongoing cases. The partnerships leverage Switzerland’s potential to influence the agenda more effectively, facilitate the integration of international best practices in ongoing restitution negotiations, and help ensure that returned assets benefit the populations of states of origin.
Backstopping support for SDC’s Cluster Green thematic Knowledge Networks A+FS, CDE and RésEAU
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2028
As a globally active knowledge-based organisation, SDC is critically dependent on effective and efficient knowledge management. SDC’s thematic networks sit at the heart of this endeavour, rendering an essential service across the organisation and its partners by connecting network members, collecting and processing information, and retaining and distributing knowledge. State-of-the art backstopping services are essential to this activity, as is close cooperation between SDC’s thematic networks.
Response to Gender-Based Violence 25-29
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2029
In order to fight increasing gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian and conflict contexts, address the root causes in a sustainable way and to contribute to lasting change, Switzerland provides targeted, multi-year funding for GBV prevention and response, and invests in rights-based and survivor-centred projects of three key partners.
Core Contribution to the Interna-tional Fund for Public Interest Me-dia (IFPIM)
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2028
Public interest media in low- and middle-income countries face existential threats, impact-ing sustainable development and peace. IFPIM is an organization backing the resilience and independence of public interest media. Through SDC’s contribution to IFPIM, Swit-zerland promotes democracy by combating dis- and misinformation and ensuring media freedom and access to reliable information.
Voluntary Contribution to the Adaptation Fund (AF)
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2028
The Adaptation Fund (AF) has a proven track record for implementing innovative adaptation projects, including in SDC priority countries. It supports most vulnerable communities to increase their resilience and adaptation capacities in the face of the rapidly rising impacts of climate change including extreme weather events and slow onset processes. It is one of the four climate funds that reports to the Conference of the Parties to the Paris Agreement.
Programme d’appui à la petite irrigation-PAPI
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2028
Au Niger, dans un contexte de transition politique, la sécurité alimentaire demeure un enjeu majeur. Elle dépend notamment des performances des exploitations familiales qui parviennent difficilement à assurer leur propre alimentation. La Suisse accompagne la petite irrigation pour offrir en particulier aux femmes et aux jeunes des opportunités d’emploi et de revenus agricoles, mais aussi pour moderniser les exploitations familiales et contribuer ainsi à la sécurité alimentaire du pays.
Development Effectiveness Activities and Focal Point Development Effectiveness (DE) 2025-2028
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2026
In a time when getting more impact with less resources available becomes urgent, development effectiveness is the only way forward. Switzerland has been committed to this Agenda since the process started in 2005. It has acted as co-chair of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) from 2019 to 2022, hosted the 2022 Summit and remains a member of the steering committee. Switzerland will support the Joint Support Team (JST) based at UNDP for preparing and mobilizing countries to participate in the development effectiveness (DE) monitoring to further advance this agenda.
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UNDP Core Contribution 2025
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2025
UNDP’s key priorities – poverty eradication, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the Sustainable Development Goals, crisis response, governance and gender equality – are in line with the Swiss strategic priorities outlined in its International Cooperation Strategy. Switzerland also guides UNDP’s organisational effectiveness and transparency, along with other Member States.
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Additional Allocation of SDC Funding (Africa Division) in 2025 to ICRC Operations in DRC
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2025
SDC funding to ICRC operations allows the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to respond proactively and to provide immediate protection and assistance for people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. In line with the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) principles, Switzerland recognizes the necessity of predictable and flexible funding to respond to changing needs in humanitarian crises.
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Extraordinary Additional Allocation of SDC Funding (Africa Division) in 2025 to ICRC Operations in DRC, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2025
SDC funding to ICRC operations allows the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to respond proactively and to provide immediate protection and assistance for people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. In line with the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) principles, Switzerland recognizes the necessity of predictable and flexible funding to respond to changing needs in humanitarian crises.
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Support RC Trust Fund 2025
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2025
Since 2019 the Resident Coordinator (RC) system has contributed to a better coordinated, more effective and efficient UN development system (UNDS) that delivers on the SDGs. As an indispensable pillar of the UNDS reform, the RC system relies on predictable and sustainable funding. With this intervention, Switzerland contributes to this goal.
Fachstelle Soforthilfe und Wiederaufbau
01.01.2025
- 31.12.2027
Sicherstellen des Betriebsbudgets der Fachstelle Soforthilfe und Wiederaufbau für die Jahre 2025 – 2027 inkl. SQS Zertifizierung, den Bereichen USAR Capacity Building, Teilnahme an Kursen und Ausbildungen von DACHL und INSARAG sowie als Mentoren und Klassifikatoren.
