📋 Tender Overview
The Swiss Red Cross supports disadvantaged people and communities in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. It promotes equal access to healthcare particularly for the most at risk, including women, children and the elderly. SRC also engages in the field of internationaml igration.S RC's main priorityi s to strengthen Sister National Societies (SNSs) to become effective local actors tackling development challenges. SRC’s endeavours are highly relevant for the implementation of the Swiss IC Strategy 25-28.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Health
Migration and Development
Disaster Risk Reduction
Primary health care
Forced displacement (refugees, IDP, human trafficking)
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
CHF 14’320’000
The project in brief
Background The international environment is characterised by numerous multiplec rises. 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 intemal 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 InternationalC ooperation. Given the heightened frequency and protraction of several overlying crises in the same fragile areas, it is paramount for the SRC to invest in further strengthening resilience of local communities and thus advancing locally led action. Therefore, the SRC will focus on further strengthening SNS so that they can effectively respond to social, economic, environmental and humanitarian challenges facing their country.
Objectives Red Cross and Red Crescent Sister National Societies (SNSs) are strong and effective local actors able to achieve and maintain an accountable and sustainable organisation that delivers relevant services to address needs. reduce vulnerabilities and build resilience in a changing environment.
Results of the organisation's previous engagement
The SRC, in partnershipw ith3 0 SNSs enableda ccess for over 4.3 million people to quality health services and primary preventioni n the areas of reproductiveh ealth, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, WASH, ageing and health, blood safety and availability, and eye health. For example, in the field of reproductive health, over 500,000 people benefited from reproduct
