📋 Tender Overview
Save the Children Switzerland (SC Switzerland) is a Swiss non-governmental organisation aimed at ensuring meaningful and lasting changes in the lives of girls and boys, including those affected by emergencies. SC Switzerland is a member of the global SC movement. In 2023, SC Switzerland engaged in 29 countries, including in fragile, conflict and urban settings. Its focus on maternal and child health, education, and protection of children against violence and exploitation, is aligned with the Swiss IC strategy 25-28.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Emergency Relief and Protection
Health
Migration and Development
Protection, access & security
Primary health care
Migration generally (development aspects and partnerships)
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
CHF 975’000
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. According to SC 183 million children across the world currently face the triple threat of high climate risks, multidimensional poverty and conflict. 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, violations of child rights, intensifying armed conflicts, more frequent climate-related disasters, international migration and internal displacement, exacerbated demographics and an important gender gap hamper progress in reaching the SDG and pose a main challenge for all actors engaged in Switzerland’s International Cooperation. Multisectoral responses are needed to address immediate needs while working on the root causes of child-rights violations, reducing poverty and vulnerabilities and strengthening resilience. SC Switzerland can rely on SC global network's operational footprint in 113 countries to act fast in times of emergency while also engaging in forgotten or protracted crises and urban settings, as well working on longer-term risks and protective factors for children and youth.
Objectives Children and youth most impacted by inequality and discrimination survive, learn, are protected and empowered within safe and resilient families, communities and societies.
Results of the organisation's previous engagement (Note: SC Switzerland is a new partner regarding SDC core contributions):
In 2023, SC Switzerland reached nearly 1’800’000 people of whom 1’200’000 were children, including girls and boys with disabilities. Its newborn, chil
