Events

Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Sustainable Development

Wednesday, 02.04.2014 – Wednesday, 02.04.2014, Traverse
Conference Assembly

The world is preparing for a new development framework post-2015 aiming to achieveglobal sustainable development, addressing the social, economic and ecological dimensionof sustainability. Such a new framework calls also for a coherent overall financingstructure.

Location: SDC Ausserholligen, Freiburgstrasse 130, Bern, Room 2023

Water: “Scarce resource – efficiently used”

Saturday, 22.03.2014 – Sunday, 30.11.2014, Exhibition
Exposition

The aim of the exhibition is to raise awareness of the global connections and the rapidly changing prospects concerning the most essential of all goods: water. There are four main focal points: water and food, water and agriculture, water and everyday life and water and the world.

Location: Tropenhaus Frutigen

Swiss Humanitarian Aid – Living Humanitarian Responsibility

Friday, 14.03.2014 – Friday, 14.03.2014, Annual Conference of Swiss Humanitarian Aid
Conference

Some 960 people took part in the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Annual Conference.The conference brings together Swiss humanitarian actors in a different Swiss city every year. An accompanying programme enables participants to discuss topical humanitarian issues. In addition, the conference offers Swiss Humanitarian Aid staff and members of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) and of partner organisations – who frequently work in remote regions – an ideal opportunity for a personal exchange of ideas with their colleagues. SHA groups of experts hold their annual meetings immediately before the annual conference takes place.

Location: Lausanne

More than a journey

Friday, 14.03.2014 – Sunday, 22.06.2014, A series of events on cultural and knowledge exchanges between Switzerland and Tunisia
Conference Assembly; Cultural event; Conference Assembly; Cultural event

Migrants play a key role in the exchange of culture and knowledge between countries. The SDC will showcase this role focusing on the example of Switzerland and Tunisia in a series of events entitled "More than a Journey". The events, a film screening, a lecture and a panel discussion, are embedded in the art exhibition “The Journey to Tunisia, Klee, Macke, Moilliet” which stands under the patronage of the President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter.

Location: Zentrum Paul Klee

Achieving Social Inclusion – A Global Challenge

Wednesday, 12.02.2014 – Wednesday, 12.02.2014, Traverse
Conference Assembly; Conference Assembly

Significant progress has been achieved in terms of poverty reduction and human development worldwide over the last decades. However, many groups remain excluded from these positive trends. Exclusion – based on location, gender, race, caste, ethnicity, religion, or disability status – remains a critical development challenge. It is often interrelated with poverty, when certain groups are denied economic opportunities, access to services or political participation. Exclusion impacts the society as a whole, has high economic costs, and may also jeopardize political stability.