The impact of climate change has no geographical boundaries. It affects everyone, all over the world, and is particularly hard on those whose livelihoods depend directly on the natural environment. Climate change is one cause of poverty, hunger and natural disasters.
Climate change around the world is creating new challenges for those involved in international development, since poor countries and population groups are much harder hit than prosperous ones. Climate change hampers development and jeopardises the progress that has already been achieved. For this reason, climate change mitigation and management are increasingly important elements of development cooperation. The SDC's Global Programme Climate Change, in particular, takes account of this trend.
Global Programme Climate Change and Environment division
SDC Shareweb on climate change and the environment
The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership
Switzerland's international climate policy (Federal Office for the Environment)
UN commitment to climate change
Vidéo «Globalprogramm Klimawandel und Umwelt: kleine Massnahmen, grosse Wirkung»
01.06.2015
- 31.08.2020
Drought, fodder scarcity and conflicts over natural resources make life difficult for pastoralists in southern Ethiopia. The SDC has taken various measures to improve their food security and their resilience to crisis situations, ranging from the rehabilitation of pastureland and water points to the introduction of land use plans and the diversification of income sources for women. [1] For the sake of simplicity, pastoralists and agro-pastoralist will be referred to as “pastoralists” hereafter.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ethiopia |
Environment Water
Agricultural production (incl. management of natural resources)
Environment protection
Disaster Risk Reduction – Prevention
Integrated water resource management (watershed)
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION WATER AND SANITATION HUMANITARIAN AID
Agricultural development
Environmental policy and administrative management
Water resources conservation (including data collection)
Disaster prevention and preparedness
|
01.06.2015 - 31.08.2020 |
CHF 6'753'920 |
01.05.2015
- 31.10.2019
To make the Nile Basin a common ground and shared ecosystem for the inhabitants of the eleven countries through which the Nile River flows, the SDC supports the innovative musical and educational Nile Project. The project brings together artists, students and concerned citizens. A series of acclaimed concerts has taken place since 2013; at the same time, students are developing initiatives to foster a better use of water resources.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Egypt |
Economy and Employment Education Migration Rule of Law - Democracy - Human rights Education Environment Rule of Law - Democracy - Human rights Economy and Employment
Culture
Disaster Risk Reduction – Preparedness
Education policy
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development
Environment protection
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development
Vocational training and skills development
Access to information incl. support to media and ICT
Mitigation of the effects of climate change
Culture
Human rights (incl. Women's rights)
Migration generally (development aspects and partnerships)
Protection and access
EDUCATION GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY HUMANITARIAN AID EDUCATION GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY BUSINESS & OTHER SERVICES INDUSTRY GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES COMMUNICATIONS GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HUMANITARIAN AID
Education policy and administrative management
Women's equality organisations and institutions
Culture and recreation
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development
Disaster prevention and preparedness
Vocational training
Public sector policy and administrative management
Business support services and institutions
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development
Environmental policy and administrative management
Promotion of development awareness (non-sector allocable)
Human rights
Women's equality organisations and institutions
Culture and recreation
Information and communication technology (ICT)
Biosphere protection
Material relief assistance and services
|
01.05.2015 - 31.10.2019 |
CHF 750'000 |
01.11.2011
- 31.12.2019
The forests of the Andes are valuable in a variety of ways: they store and purify water, provide protection against natural hazards, and absorb environmentally harmful greenhouse gases. With the ANFOR project, the SDC is contributing to the long-term protection of Andean forests.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Andean Region |
Environment
Adaptation to the effects of climate change
Forestry
Adaptation to the effects of climate change
Mitigation of the effects of climate change
Biodiversity
Mitigation of the effects of climate change
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Forestry development
Environmental policy and administrative management
Forestry policy
Environmental policy and administrative management
Biosphere protection
Biosphere protection
Bio-diversity
|
01.11.2011 - 31.12.2019 |
CHF 8'072'000 |
01.02.2017
- 31.12.2019
Women and men living on riverine islands will increase the productivity of their farms as a result of better access to quality inputs and services, processing and output markets. The 25’000 benefitting farm households are likely to invest additional income into the diversification of their farm businesses and basic needs. This will result in reduced poverty and vulnerability of men and women on riverine islands and an increase in their well-being.
15.12.2016
- 31.12.2020
Au Burkina Faso, les
produits forestiers non ligneux[1] (PFNL) constituent une importante source alimentaire pour
les populations des zones affectées par les chocs climatiques et déficitaires
sur le plan alimentaire. Les PFNL font partie de l’alimentation de plus de
43,4% des ménages ruraux et procurent de l’emploi et des revenus. Le programme contribue à l’accroissement de la sécurité
alimentaire, nutritionnelle et des revenus des ménages ruraux et périurbains[2]
par la valorisation et la gestion durable des PFNL.
[1] Les PFNL s’entendent
par « tout bien d’origine biologique
autre que le bois et la faune à l’exception des insectes, dérivé des forêts et
des arbres hors forêts, constitués de végétaux spontanés, domestiqués, et ceux
destinés au reboisement ». (Source FAO) [2] Le périurbain est
un espace rural au sens où l’essentiel des sols est attribué à des activités
agricoles; mais c’est aussi un espace urbain au sens où la majorité de la
population active qui y habite travaille dans une ville, en effectuant des
migrations alternantes. Le milieu périurbain connait une très forte compétition
entre usage agricole et non
agricole des ressources: terres, main-d'œuvre, etc. La production agricole est
orientée principalement pour le marché du centre urbain.
01.12.2016
- 31.12.2020
SDC supports IRRI (international Rice Research Institute) and its national research and extension partners in six major rice granaries of Asia (China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam) to develop science-based, quantitative tools and participatory methods to i) generate evidence, and ii) optimize ‘integrated sustainable irrigated rice production systems’ in order to increase rice yield and enhance regional and global food security while minimizing the environmental footprint of irrigated rice production.
25.11.2016
- 28.02.2021
CALAC+ supports clean air strategies in Latin American metropolises fostering normative and technological changes towards application of soot-free engines in public urban transport systems and off-road machinery. The reduction of air pollutants that are both an important impediment to sustainable development and a key contributor to climate change will be achieved by means of, targeted capacity building, sharing experiences and curbing private sector engagement in clean air issues.
01.08.2016
- 31.07.2020
Due to frequent occurrence of natural disasters the Government has endorsed number of laws and regulations, and developed relevant structure for DRM. However, the disaster risk governance requires further improvement. The project will assist the Government to expand approaches to risk governance at the national level involving the Government, civil society and the international community and improving local risk governance using risk assessments and risk informed land use planning targeting land owners and users.
01.07.2016
- 31.12.2019
High demographic growth in the Great Lakes increases the competition for scarce natural resources and boosts the demand for affordable housing. The project aims at triggering local economic development, improving working conditions and increasing off-farm employment through climate responsive building material production. Results of the first phase allow for a technology transfer adjusted to local needs and scaling up of the brick production value chains in the region.
01.07.2016
- 30.06.2019
UNICEF through its 138 Country offices (CO) supports governments (especially at local level) and partners to reduce risk and strengthen resilience. To achieve this, UNICEF is currently increasing its focus on fragility and supports disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA) and peacebuilding (PB) while also promoting a multi-hazard approach to Risk Informed Programming (RIP).
01.01.2016
- 30.06.2020
Environmental degradation and climate change are reducing the capacity of the Dipilto River watershed to provide ecosystem services (water, forest) to the population, increasing their vulnerability and deepening poverty. The program will strengthen dialogue among stakeholders, empower communities and provide economic incentives for restoring the hydrologic and environmental equilibrium of the watershed, increasing the resilience of its 27 thousand inhabitants.
01.12.2015
- 30.11.2019
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) is essential for reducing land degradation, restoring degraded land and striving to achieve land degradation neutrality. WOCAT, the Global Sustainable Land Management Platform, is recognised by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as the primary database for SLM best practices reporting, offers robust and up-to-date knowledge, tools and methods for evidence-based decision-making to implement the most appropriate practices within a given context and to improve land resources, ecosystems and livelihoods. The phase will focus on enhancement of knowledge uptake in decision support.
