2. Who We Are
•Founded in 1955 in Zurich: first private
Swiss development NGO
•2011 merger with Intercooperation
•Politically and denominationally neutral
•Over 100,000 members and Swiss donors
•1,200 staff (17% Swiss & international
experts)
•US presence since 2012
•Fiscal sponsorship
•NICRA, Registered with USAID
• Long country presence (12+ years)
• Build the capacity of local partners
• Multi stakeholder approach
• Cross-cutting themes: gender equality
and social justice
• Strong monitoring and evaluation: 11
impact assessments from 2009-2011
• Low overhead: 10-15%
• Focus on rural and peri-urban areas
• South-south collaboration
• Triple Commitment; Implementation -
Advisory Services - Advocacy
3. Our Programs
Rural Economy Environment &
Climate Change
Water &
Infrastructure
Skills
Development and
Education
Governance and
Peace
• Sustainable
agriculture
systems
• Agriculture
extension
• Organic
farming &
fairtrade
• Value
chains
• Citizen
engagement &
participation
• Political
accountability
• Civil peace
building &
conflict
sensitivity
• Artistic
expressions for
an open society
• South-south
labour
migration
• Climate
protection and
conservation
of resources
(land, water,
forests).
• Risk reduction
and adaption
• Safe
drinking
water &
sanitation
• Irrigation &
efficient use
of water
• Bridges,
roads &
trails for
access to
ideas,
services
and
markets
• Private-sector
& labor
market
oriented
training
• Linkages:
basic
education &
youth skills
development
• Mobile
trainings
• Life skills
• Tracer study
toolkit
Cross-cutting themes: Gender &
social equity, capacity
development, learning & innovation
4. Where We Work
32 partner
countries
CRITERIA
•High level of
poverty
•High potential for
impact
•Government
collaboration
•Relevance of our
programs
•Civil society or
government as
partners to
collaborate
•Donor interest
5. Past & Current U.S. Partners
• IDB
• US State Department
• USDA
• World Bank & World Bank Institute
• USAID
• CARE
• Chemonics
• Mercy Corps
• RTI
• Winrock
• United Nations
• UNCTAD
• UNDP
• UN Forum on Forests
• UNICEF
• UNIDO
Foundations
•Blue Moon Foundation (renewable energy)
•Ellysium Foundation (Bhutan)
•Ford Foundation (CATIE)
•Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (water study)
•McKnight Foundation (rural economy)
•Open Society Foundations (governance)
NGOs
•Bridges to Prosperity (trail bridges)
•KickStart International (water pumps)
•Rights & Resources Institute (forests/rights)
•Partnership for Transparency Fund
•The Nature Conservancy (forests)
•Women World Banking
•Wildlife Conservation Society
•World Resources Institute
6. International Associations
Rural Economy
•Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
•DCED
•ICAC
•IFOAM
•FLO (Fairtrade Label Organisation)
•ISEAL
•Textile Exchange
Education
•Centre International d’Etudes Agricoles
Microfinance
•CGAP
•Social Performance Task Force
•Women World Banking
Democracy & Peace
•CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation)
•INTRAC (International NGO Training and
Research Centre)
Water
•End Water Poverty (UK): Member Executive
Committee
•Global Water Challenge
•World Water Council (France
•Water Integrity Network
•Rural Water Supply Network
•WHO – International Network on Household
Water Treatment and Safe Storage
Roads & Bridges
•International Forum for Rural Transport and
Development
Climate Change & Adaptation
•Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change
(IPCC) (HSI = lead author)
•International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
•Global Environment Facility (GEF)
•Rights and Resources Initiative
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7. Financial data 2012
Funds by Program Area %
Rural Economy 36
Water & Infrastructure 26
Skills Development & Education 18
Governance & Peace 14
Environment & Climate 6
Total 100
Use of Funds by Continent %
Asia 41.3
Africa 31.4
Latin America 16.6
Eastern Europe, Caucasus &
Central Asia
10.7
Total (Swiss Francs 91.9M - $96M) 100
Income: Sources %
Swiss Development Corporation 55.7
Private 20.8
Other Official Development Aid 17.3
Advisory Services 3
Other 3.2
Total (Swiss Francs:115,5M/$120.5M) 100
8. Our Commitments 2013 - 2017
Water:
•ONE: 1 million: access to water
•TWO: 500,000 people: access to
sanitation
Basic Education:
•THREE: Better education for 500,000
kids
•FOUR: Workforce development for
100,000
Rural Economy:
•FIVE: Access to technical assistance: 1
million
•SIX: Access to sustainable markets: 1
million
Climate Change
•SEVEN: Access to essential natural
resources: 500,000
•EIGHT: 500,000 have adopted their
livelihoods
•NINE: We will invest in disaster
resilience and build our capacity
Governance and Peace
•TEN: 500,000 aware of their rights &
4,000 local governance plans
•ELEVEN: 30,000 trained in peace-
building
•TWELVE: 500,000 participate in
cultural activities on social issues
We are the biggest Swiss NGO, since the merger with Intercooperation in 2011. We are also one of the oldest, founded in 1955. We are a membership-based organisations, with over 100’000 members and Swiss donors. We have around 1200 people working for us, around 100 at Headoffice. We work in 34 countries, where we have country offices, often one in the capital and then small field offices for operations. We always work with and through local partners, often in a multistakeholder approach, where we bring the different actors together around a common objective, be it drinking water supply, forestry management, agricultural services, etc. We have M&E systems in place, more and more impact assessments are done, because we really want to know what works and what doesn’t. And we want to ensure quality of our work. We are proud of our achievements so far to promote South South collaboration, especially in trailbridge building, between Npl and ET.
We have organised ourselves around five main themes. Many of them actually overlap, so they are rather fluid categories. For each working area, we have a team of advisors. Each project we have is categorised according to one of these five working areas. Those actually responsible for the programs are organised geographically. I just mentioned the Trailbridges, this falles under Water & Infrastructure. We think safe drinking water is really important but also more needs to be done around sanitation. So we are happy that there is now a convention? Signed on Right to Water. Skills development and education, focuses on vocational education and teacher training. You know, the Swiss are really good at vocational training, they find it really important to have skilled labour, children from 15 years on normally go do an apprentiship for 3-4 years. You can see it, everything is done to perfection in Switzerland. Then my working area, which I am heading, is Governance and Peace, which I willl explain later. Rural economy focuses on sustainable agriculture, fairtrade, organic, preferably both along value chains. We also use a M4P approach, which is an integrated approach to value chains which benefit the poor, looking at all the actors along the chain, the inputs required and the governance aspects. Advisors are now looking more at food security issues, as well. Finally, environment and climate change, encompasses forestry, risk reduction and adaptation, and climate change. Land issues is a theme that we starting to look at more seriously. We have cross-cutting themes of gender and social equity, capacity development, and learning & innovation. We have a team working on these issues.
We are in 34 countries, since the merger. The oldest one is Nepal, the newest one is Myanmar. The size of the programme differs according to mandates, potential for fundraising, and relevance of our presence. Vietnam is sizing down, Bhutan is small, but Bangladesh is increasing.
We are well connected across the globe. But these are some of the US partners that we have worked with now or in the past.
We are a member of CIVICUS, which is based in South Africa, and a global civil society organisation. We also work with Swisspeace and KOFF on peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity. And even though this organisation falls under water, we have a partnership with Water Integrity Network to implement integrity projects in three countries, because integrity and anti-corruption is so closely related to governance. ISEAL -- Describes objectives, which are to improve social auditing processes in agriculture. Also organizational details and partner information.
We are growing in size and financial volume. Private spending has again increased this year. We have a steady amount of mandates from various donors. Our main donor continues to be Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC.
