Projects

Jordan – Greater Amman Municipality: Strengthening the Institutional and Human Capacities in Disaster Risk Management

01.07.2011 - 31.01.2012

Thematic Fund Civil Society Participation Romania

01.07.2011 - 30.11.2019

The Thematic Fund linked to Civil Society Participation in Romania has the purpose to promote the contribution of civil society organizations as important actors in development and participation. This is to be achieved through Swiss-Romanian projects in the environment sector and through an NGO-Block Grant to support a number of smaller projects of Romanian NGOs in environment and social areas.

Strengthening the Capacities of Forest Owners Associations for Sustainable Forest Management

01.07.2011 - 30.11.2019

The objective of this project is to contribute to an integrated and sustainable management of forests in Romania. The project works with forest owners associations to improve their skills to manage a forest in a sustainable way.

UNRWA ILO Employment Center

01.07.2011 - 30.11.2013

Development of nature conservation and of protected areas in the Slovak Carpathians

01.07.2011 - 31.12.2016

The Slovak Republic has developed a national network of protected areas with sites of international importance. The goal of the project is to improve the protection and sustainable use of protected areas and selected habitats and the regeneration of natural environment and landscapes.

Partnership and Expert Fund - Romania

01.07.2011 - 30.11.2019

The "Partnership and Expert Fund - Romania" has the purpose to promote and support existing and new partnerships between Romanian and Swiss associations and communities in planning and implementing specific projects. It has also the purpose to offer specific Swiss expertise for Romanian institutions according to concrete demands.

Partnership and Expert Fund Bulgaria

01.07.2011 - 30.11.2019

The goal of the Thematic Fund „Partnership and Expert Fund“ is to promote and enhance institutional partnerships between Bulgarian and Swiss partners as well as to mobilise Swiss expertise. Swiss partners and expertises shall contribute to the solution of specific development challenges, strengthen capacities and structures of the Bulgarian institutional partners and bring Swiss added value.

Quality Improvement of Social Services, Lubelskie

01.07.2011 - 31.05.2016

The programme is focused on the improvement of quality of infrastructure and services provided in social care institutions in the Lubelskie Voivodeship in order to enhance living conditions of residents of these institutions. The programme targets elderly people, mentally and physically disabled as well as youths deprived of appropriate parental assistance and directly contributes to promote social inclusion of disadvantaged groups.
 

Measures for protecting endangered ecosystems

01.07.2011 - 31.12.2016

Switzerland is financing two biodiversity projects in Slovakia for the protection of endangered ecosystems. One project is concerned with monitoring and researching forests, while the second aims to preserve and protect natural areas and habitats in the Slovak Carpathian mountains. The Swiss contribution to these two projects totals around CHF 4.2 million.

Home Care Services

01.07.2011 - 31.12.2017

Increasing life expectancy in Bulgaria means that there is now a larger number of older people in the country. To enable these people to remain at home in a familiar environment even at an advanced age, this project has introduced a home nursing service in Vratsa districts. Home nursing by  qualified teams enables patients to maintain a degree of independence and improves the quality of life of chronically ill or disabled elderly people.

Soutien à l’agriculture familiale écologique et à la promotion de la biodiversité cultivée en Afrique de l’Ouest

01.07.2011 - 30.06.2014

PARIS – Etude et pilotage (Programme d’Appui à la Reconstruction des Infrastructures Scolaires)

01.07.2011 - 31.12.2014