Regional Protection and Migration Programme


Latin America faces the second largest forced displacement crisis in the world with 7.1 million people forcibly displaced from Venezuela, Central America, the Caribbean and other continents. 6.2 million more are displaced in their own country. Persons in human mobility need protection against gender-based violence, exploitation and exclusion. In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, Switzerland addresses causes and consequences of displacement, providing aid, striving for integration and supporting actors to protect the most vulnerable.

Pays/région Thème Période Budget
Amérique
Ande
Colombie
Equateur
Pérou
Governance
Aide humanitaire & RRC
Migration
Gender
Conflit & fragilité
nothemedefined
Politique du secteur publique
Protection, accès & sécurité
Déplacements forcés (réfugiés, PDI, traite des êtres humains)
Migration en général (développement et partenariats)
Organisations et institutions pour l'égalité des femmes
Enfants soldats
Violence sexuelle & sexiste
Réhabilitation d'urgence
Efficacité humanitaire
01.05.2022 - 15.11.2025
CHF  4’000’000
Contexte

The Americas are facing the highest figures in continental migration in the world: 26 million people migrated from Latin America towards North America. Migration grew a 72% from 2000 to 2020. The second largest migration crisis in the world occurs on the continent: forced displacement from Venezuela amounts to 7.1 million people. Colombia, Peru and Ecuador are the top three host countries with 4.5 million Venezuelans.

Latin America and the Caribbean show alarming levels of violence; the rate of homicides (17.2 per 100’000 people) is the highest recorded in the region. Regionally, around 70% of women have been victims of gender-based violence (GBV) and rates of in-family GBV are higher in Colombia (30%), Ecuador (33%) and Peru (38%) than the world average (27%). Risks are considerably higher for women, girls and LGBTIQ+ persons in mobility. In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, figures of internal displacement due to conflict and violence, amount to 5.3 million. Armed actors from Colombia and Venezuela are increasingly active in transnational organised crime and have gained unprecedented geographic reach, with Venezuelan networks of trafficking in persons active down to Chile. Political turmoil regularly affects Ecuador and Peru.

Objectifs Vulnerable and at-risk persons in human mobility facing protection risks enjoy their fundamental rights.
Groupes cibles

Direct beneficiaries:

Female: 22’360

Male: 13’160

Indirect beneficiaries:

36’600 persons (through operational protection work by implementing partners)

753’200 persons (through more protective public policies promoted by technical support of Switzerland) 

Effets à moyen terme

Outcome 1)    Persons in human mobility facing immediate protection risks reduce their vulnerability and increase their resilience through enhanced access to protection services.

Outcome 2)    Actors address protection risks through innovations which reduce vulnerable and at-risk persons in human mobility’s vulnerability and increase their resilience.

Outcome 3)    Actors better reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of vulnerable and at-risk persons in human mobility through dissemination of good protection practices.

Outcome 4)    Duty-bearers’ public policies better fulfil rights of vulnerable and at-risk persons in human mobility.

Résultats

Principaux résultats attendus:  

1.1)    Access to multisectoral protection services has been improved.

1.2)    Local capacities for protection response have been strengthened.

2.1)    Innovation initiatives from private, public and/or civil society actors have been supported.

3.1)    SDC implements knowledge management practices.

3.2)    Swiss proposals enrich dialogue on public protection policies in each country.

4.1)    Swiss proposals enrich regional dialogue on public protection policies


Principaux résultats antérieurs:  

-    Number of migrants and forcibly displaced persons experiencing violence, exploitation and abuse who access protection/rehabilitation services (national and regional);

-    Baseline (2017-2021): 134.231 persons with basic needs attended by humanitarian assistance; 

-    Number of persons subjected to different forms of sexual and gender-based violence having received required (medical, and/or psychosocial, and/or legal) support; Baseline (2017-2021): 4.741 persons whose capacity were strengthened to prevent risks of gender-based violence; 

-    Number of migrants and forcibly displaced persons who gained access to local health, education and other social services; Baseline (2017-2021): 2.681.503 persons.

 

(figures for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)

 


Direction/office fédéral responsable DDC
Partenaire de projet Partenaire contractuel
ONG internationale ou étrangère
Secteur privé
Organisation suisse à but non lucratif
Organisme des Nations Unies (ONU)
  • Other international or foreign NGO North
  • Autre organisation suisse non-profit
  • Secteur privé étranger Nord
  • Sectreur privé étranger Sud/Est
  • Bureau des Nations Unies pour la coordination de l’assistance humanitaire
  • Entité des Nations Unies pour l’égalité des sexes et l’autonomisation des femmes


Autres partenaires
UN Women; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS); various
Coordination avec d'autres projets et acteurs

Humanitarian and migration actors:

Community Based Organizations, local organizations, NGOs, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and United Nations Resident Coordinator’s offices (RCO), Regional and national platforms Response for Venezuelans (R4V), International Organisation for Migration (IOM), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

State migration and cooperation agencies: 

COL: Agencia presidencial de cooperación, Migración, Defensoría del pueblo, alcaldías // PER: Defensoría del pueblo, Unidad de protección especial, Superintendencia de migración, alcaldías // ECU: Cancillería, Vice-Ministerio de Movilidad humana, alcaldías.

Swiss actors: Swiss Representation in Latin America and their migration/protection projects or programmes, Swiss NGOs in protection/migration.

Donors: US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, ECHO, Spanish cooperation (AECID), Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), Canada, Sweden, German cooperation (GiZ).

Budget Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF    4’000’000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF    2’611’240
Phases du projet Phase 1 01.05.2022 - 15.11.2025   (Phase en cours)