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From the "Guidelines North-South" to class instruction material and videos: The SDC offers you a variety of information material on Swiss cooperation with countries of the South and the East as
well as on humanitarian aid. Many of these documents are also available in different languages and most are free of charge.
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Annual Report 2012 SECO/SDC on Switzerland's contribution to EU enlargement On 14 June 2012 the commitment period for Switzerland’s enlargement contribution for the EU-10 came to an end. During this time, Switzerland approved 210 projects with the partner countries. With that, Switzerland’s contribution of one billion francs to the EU-10 has been fully committed. As of the end of 2012, 11 projects had been completed. For Bulgaria and Romania, the commitment period ends in December 2014. The annual report provides a more detailed look at the progress made on the projects in 2012.
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Information on the Swiss Enlargement Contribution (flyer) New flyer „The Swiss Enlargement Contribution - Switzerland’s contribution to reducing the social and economic disparities in the enlarged European Union” The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) have published this brief overview to provide information on the implementation and targeted objectives of the Swiss Enlargement Contribution.
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Guidance to improve resilience and reduce impacts in development cooperation and humanitarian aid The Climate, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration Guidance CEDRIG is a tool to support project managers in analyzing whether existing and planned cooperation strategies, programs and projects are at risk from disasters emanating from climate variability, climate change, environmental degradation and/or tectonic activities, as well as whether they have an impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and/or the environment. This guidance is structured in two main parts: Part II contains the practical handbook. This is the core part of the guidance and shall guide through the process of how to screen and assess whether strategies, programmes or projects are at significant risk from disasters emanating from climate variability, climate change, environmental degradation and/or tectonic activities and whether they have a significant impact on GHG emissions and/or the environment. The handbook is a self-explanatory and hands-on guidance which leads the user through the process of CEDRIG. Part I outlines the rationale and framework of SDC’s CEDRIG and provides the user with procedural information about the approach, key definitions and explanations as well as supporting materials. (Concept and Support Material of CEDRIG)
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Climate, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration Guidance: Part I Aim, Concept and Suppo
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Aide au développement de la Suisse: Statistiques 2011 Cette publication se compose de six tableaux offrant une vue d'ensemble de l'aide publique (Confédération, cantons, communes) et privée de la Suisse (ONG suisses) en 2011, par pays de destination, par organisation, ainsi que la liste des principaux projets par pays. En annexe figure un répertoire des organisations privées suisses actives dans la coopération au développement. Chiffres et faits sur Internet: http://www.ddc.admin.ch/fr/Accueil/La_DDC/Chiffres_et_faits
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Cooperation Strategy Horn of Africa 2013–2016 Destabilised by conflicts, recurrent food crises, and the disruptions of climate change, the Horn of Africa is a highly vulnerable region. In keeping with the Federal Council's Message to Parliament on International Cooperation 2013–2016, Switzerland will be reinforcing its involvement there, focusing on the issues of food security, health, good governance and migration.
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Liste des projets 2012: Coopération avec les pays d’Europe de l’Est Liste compléts des Projets de la coopération technique avec les états d'europe de l'est, état fin septembre 2012.
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Climate and Development: A Double Dividend Several years ago the SDC launched four Global Programmes on Climate Change, Food Security, Migration,and Water, respectively. In the interests of maximum impact, the SDC Global Programme on Climate Change focuses its efforts on only four countries: China, India, Peru and South Africa. The latter is omitted from the present review as programme-related activities are still in their infancy there. The structure of the present report follows that of the Global Programme itself, with sections on political dialogue, operational experience and knowledge-sharing.
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Swiss Contribution: Interim report for the end of the EU 10 commitment period By voting in favour of the Federal Act on Cooperation with the States of Eastern Europe on 26 November 2006, Swiss voters cleared the way for a billion-franc investment in the ten countries which joined the European Union in 2004. Following Parliament’s approval of the relevant framework credit on 14 June 2007, the enlargement contribution finally came into being. Five years on, the initial project approval phase has been completed. These projects will be implemented over the course of the next five years, up to 2017.This brochure provides a host of interesting facts and background information on the projects and the countries in which these projects are being implemented.
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Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in Latin America and Asia (Mongolia) SDC experiences with Formalization and Responsible Environmental Practices in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in Latin America and Asia (Mongolia)
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10 Stories – 10 years of SDC engagement in Afghanistan The booklet portrays SDC partners, beneficiaries from different projects, and government representatives and through them, highlights the several faces of SDC’s engagement in the country. Available from December 2012.
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Swiss Health Foreign Policy Switzerland's new health foreign policy, which entered into force in March 2012, sets goals regarding health and regulates cooperation between federal offices in this sector. It aims to promote the development of a coherent position by Switzerland in international bodies dealing with health questions in order to respond more effectively to current health-related issues such as fighting pandemics, prevention and treatment of non-transmissible diseases, shortage of staff in the health sector at the global level and reform of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Health is a priority theme of Swiss development cooperation and is one of the Millennium Development Goals.
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Purchase of goods and services by multinational organisations As a complement to the periodic publications on the economic repercussions of public development aid in Switzerland, this independent study examines the development of purchases of goods and services by multilateral organisations from Swiss companies during the decade beginning in 2000. It analyses Switzerland's role compared with that of other industrialised and emerging countries. The results show that Switzerland is in a very good position among the suppliers of the United Nations and of the World Bank.
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In the Service of Mankind: Milestones in Swiss Development Cooperation since 1945 Beginning with the early days of Swiss development efforts following the Second World War, and right up to present times, this richly illustrated book sketches, in chronological sequence, the key events marking Swiss development cooperation, humanitarian aid, and cooperation with Eastern Europe, placing them within an international context. Author: Daniele Waldburger, Lukas Zürcher, Urs Scheidegger
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Added Value This brochure (93 pages) explains the relevant instruments of economic promotion used by the Swiss Development Cooperation (such as microcredits, markets for the poor M4P, employability, value chains). The analysis uses a gender perspective and a rights-based approach, taking into account the care economy, in order to illuminate the conflict areas of a development cooperation that rests on the premise of economic growth. The authors use expert contributions and conversations with people working in development cooperation and illustrate their arguments using concrete case studies.
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Annual Report SDC / SECO 2011 (inculsive Statistics Brochure) The annual report presents the most significant results of Switzerland’s commitment to combating poverty as well as its contribution to the reduction of global risks in a year distinguished above all by popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Evaluation of the performance of SDC instruments in fragile and conflict-affected contexts This report is an independent evaluation of SDC‘s work in fragile and conflict affected states. SDC is well positioned to work in fragile states. It has the right mixture of approaches, good instincts operationally, and can play an important and valuable role in the wider international system. To achieve this potential, SDC needs to become more flexible and needs to complement its technical efforts with political understanding and positioning. While the individual performance of SDC’s instruments is good, there is considerable potential for better performance, by bringing the different instruments together to address root causes of fragility and conflict. Complete Annexes http://www.deza.admin.ch/ressources/resource_en_212177.pdf
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Annual Report 2011 SECO/SDC on Switzerland's contribution to EU enlargement The approval process for projects within the frame of the Switzerland's Enlargement Contribution unfolded in a satisfactory manner. Numerous projects that had been approved in the previous years were able to be further implemented according to plan. 14 June 2012 marks the end of the commitment period for the Enlargement Contribution to the benefit of the EU 10. After the commitment period has come to an end, the competent authorities in Switzerland and in the partner countries will provide information on all of the approved projects. A first status report is planned to be published in June and an expanded status report in autumn 2012.
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Mine Action Strategy of the Swiss Confederation 2012–2015 The mine action strategy of the Confederation defines Switzerland’s main lines of action over the next few years aimed at contributing towards the global struggle against anti-personnel mines and explosive remnants of war.
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The Swiss Water Footprint Report: A global picture of Swiss water dependence The SDC, WWF together with the interdepartemental goup IDANE Wasser, have published the first ever report on Switzerland’s water footprint. Finding: 82% of the water required to produce all the goods and services consumed in our country comes from abroad. The report emphasises that Switzerland has a shared responsibility in respect of sustainable water management on a planetary level, and proposes a set of recommendations.
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Film on the institution What contribution does Switzerland actually make to alleviating poverty, to sustainable development and to solving environmental problems? How is the SDC organised? These are some of the questions that are answered in a series of short films. SDC personnel talk about their day-to-day work both in Switzerland and abroad, while SDC Director-General, Martin Dahinden, explains the role that development cooperation plays. The SDC offers a behind-the-scenes look at its activities.
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Economic repercussions in Switzerland of Swiss development aid An i if you ndependent study shows that state development aid (SDA) which aims to reduce poverty and to support economic and social development in partner countries also has positive effects on the economy and on employment in Switzerland. The calculation of the economic repercussions of SDA is carried out at regular intervals in response to a postulate issued in 1981. The conclusions of the study based on data from the year 2010 are comparable on the whole with those of previous studies.
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Switzerland’s contribution - The achievements of SDC in 2006–2010 For the first time, the SDC is publishing the results of its activities over a five-year period. This new general activity report illustrates eight thematic areas of SDC activity by presenting sample projects, the funds earmarked, and the contribution thus made to worldwide poverty reduction and the reform of structures.
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Message on International Cooperation 2013 – 2016: Key points in brief
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Teaching Materials: Development Cooperation - Switzerland's Multifaceted Commitment The offering of teaching materials provided by the Foundation for Education and Development is meant to arouse the interest of pupils beginning with the secondary-school1st level for the core concerns of development cooperation. It shows them the wide-ranging forms, interests and actors associated with development cooperation, illustrating it all with examples of projects and accessory materials. This offering is made up of nine teaching modules and a DVD with seven films.
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ABC of Development Policy What is development? The dispute over the meaning of this term is almost as old as development cooperation itself. Over the decades, the definition of development and, with it, the approaches used by development cooperation have been in a constant state of change. The new brochure ABC of Development Policy describes this process and explains important keywords.
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Report on Effectiveness: Swiss development cooperation in the agricultural sector 2010 The second report on the effectiveness of Swiss development cooperation shows with concrete examples the impact of the CHF 1.189 billion invested between 2003 and 2008 on recipient countries in Africa, Asia, Southeast Europe and Latin America.
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SDC short portrait In what parts of the world does the SDC work? With what kind of programmes and activities does it help fight poverty? What has it achieved? This illustrated brochure in handy postcard format provides a brief introduction to Switzerland’s work in the field of development cooperation. It is especially suitable for readers with little knowledge on this subject.
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Les interactions de la Suisse avec le monde La brochure Les interactions de la Suisse avec le monde traite des interactions complexes qui, dans le contexte de la mondialisation, existent entre la Suisse et le monde dans les domaines de la politique, de l'économie, de la société et de la coopération internationale. L'interdépendance est en effet une caractéristique de notre époque. Avec la mondialisation, il n'y a pratiquement plus de problème qui n'ait pas une portée mondiale. Et la politique de développement, elle aussi, doit trouver des réponses aux défis qui se posent à la Suisse.
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