📋 Tender Overview
As a globally active knowledge-based organisation, SDC is critically dependent on effective and efficient knowledge management. SDC’s thematic networks sit at the heart of this endeavour, rendering an essential service across the organisation and its partners by connecting network members, collecting and processing information, and retaining and distributing knowledge. State-of-the art backstopping services are essential to this activity, as is close cooperation between SDC’s thematic networks.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Agriculture & food security
Climate change and environment
Water
Agricultural policy
Environmental policy
Water sector policy
Disaster risk reduction DRR
Biodiversity
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028
CHF 4’500’000
The project in brief
Background The thematic networks and the knowledge management structures that they represent bring different parts of SDC and members of their implementing partners together. In this, they fulfil an essential service in ensuring that SDC remains a learning organisation that can shephard Swiss-funded international development such that it applies state-of-the-art approaches to maximise good outcomes and to uphold Swiss reputation for excellency in the international community (Swiss interest and Swiss value added). In order to do this, specialist knowledge has to be brought into processes on an on-demand basis. These services are what is budgeted in this credit proposal.
Objectives SDC’s Cluster Green thematic networks Agriculture and Foodsystems A+FS, Climate, DRR and Environment CDE and RésEAU will substantially contribute to fulfilling SDC’s aspiration to be and remain a learning organisation operating through informed decision-making and innovative solutions that address contemporary and future challenges of international cooperation as set out in Switzerland’s International Cooperation Strategy 2025-28.
Target groups Cluster Green Networks’ Members, Implementing partners, external, thematically related communities of practice and networks, Swiss Embassies and Country Offices, Geographic Divisions and the Humanitarian Aid Competence Centre, especially SDC partners and implementing organisations Network membership:
A+FS: approx. 500
CDE: approx. 750
RésEAU: approx. 600
Medium-term outcomes Know: Network members, country offices and multilateral missions have access to and contribute to a repository of up-to-date thematic information which provides them with straightforward operational guidance and clear orientation on Switzerland’s policies in the respective thematic area. Learn: Network members and the whole of SDC have the possibility to take part in high-quality online, hybrid and in-person events which are relevant to their needs and allow them to contribute their own knowledge to the network through a mutual process of capacity-building. Connect: Network members have the possibility to interact easily and exchange information on CG-themes through accessible online
