📋 Tender Overview
The Pestalozzi Children's Foundation (PCF) is a globaly active Swiss non-profit organisation. PCF promotes access to inclusive and equitable quality education with a focus on the most vulnerable children. Through capacity strengthening, innovative approaches and close cooperation with local NGOs, PCF supports civil society as a way to promote sustainable development and the right to education .
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Education
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Primary education
Teacher training
Education policy
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
CHF 6’086’000
The project in brief
Background The international environment is characterised by numerous multiple crises. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the escalation in the Middle East, food insecurity, debt burden and inflation, climate change and the energy crisis are all having a direct impact on the world's population. They particularly affect the most vulnerable, mostly women and children and result in increasing humanitarian needs.
Accelerated change is accompanied by increased uncertainty: The world is becoming more fragmented, unstable and unpredictable. Whilst the vision to reach the Sustainable Development Goals remains, challenges including the accelerating global food and nutrition crisis, shrinking civic and humanitarian space, the erosion of rule of law, intensifying armed conflicts, more frequent climate-related disasters, international migration and internal displacement, exacerbated demographics and an important gender gap hamper progress in reaching them and pose a main challenge for all actors engaged in Switzerland’s International Cooperation.
PCF's focus lies in the realisation of boys' and girls' right to inclusive and equitable quality education. In the countries where PCF operates, yet a growing number of boys and girls are denied their right to education. While they have narrowed globally, in low-income countries gender gaps in schooling are huge.
Objectives Enhance inclusive and equitable quality education by promoting sustainable development for all girls and boys through a whole of school approach to Education for Sustainable Development.
Results of the organisation's previous engagement In 2023 with PCF’s support, the following results could be achieved:
72 official political commitments at national, regional or local level in 8 countries and 20 curricula improved the access of vulnerable girls and boys to education or promoted gender equality.
PCF promoted adequate pedagogical approaches/methodologies, relevant content of education and safe and rights-based learning environments by providing training to more than 9,500 teachers (6'896F; 2'674M) and involvingnearly 97'500 parents and community members (51,415F; 45,986M) in education processes.
More than 225'000 girls and boys (111'523F; 113'737M) benefitted from improved quality of teaching and over 111'500 children (55'330F; 56'247M) improved their competencies in core subjects (ma
