📋 Tender Overview
Access to safe water and sanitation affordable for all by 2030 according to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is substantially off track. The so-called SDG 6 Acceleration Framework adopted in 2020 by the UN, calls for fast results through increased efforts at all levels and by all relevant actors. Solidarit’Eau Suisse helps in mobilizing support from Swiss municipalities and other water-related public actors to implement Swiss projects in the water sector of the Global South.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Health
Water
Health systems strengthening
Infectious desease
Water supply
Health education
Malaria
Water sanitation
Basic health infrastructure
16.07.2022 - 15.07.2027
CHF 830’000
The project in brief
Background The ‘Solidarit’Eau Suisse’ (SES) initiative was launched by SDC in 2004 with the innovative idea to mobilize Swiss municipalities and cities to contribute 1 CHF Cent per cubic meter of fresh and waste water as a sign of solidarity with all those people and communities in the Global South deprived from access to drinking water and sanitation & hygiene facilities. Designed as a mandate and assigned first directly and later through a tender process, the same private Swiss company played the role of the Secretariat and ran the platform until end of 2018. In order to ensure the sustainability of SES, SDC initiated with its constituency a transformative process in order to stimulate ownership and a substantial buy-in from key plaxers to move towards a contribution logic.
Objectives The primary desired impact remains as in the past the improvement of the living conditions of poor communities in the Global South by providing a secured access to safe and affordable fresh water as well as to affordable sanitation and hygiene services with direct and indirect benefits in particular for their health, education, and income thereby eventually contributing to better opportunities for a decent future and the achievement of SDG 6.
Target groups Direct target groups: · Cities, villages and communities in the Global South needing support to secure access to fresh water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for their inhabitants / people Indirect target groups: · Swiss municipalities/cities and their water / sanitation providing services mobilized as funding partners · Swiss NGOs ative in the water sector in the Global South proposing relevant and interesting WASH projects ·Swiss NGO federations promoting development cooperation in the Global South and mobilizing support in Switzerland
Medium-term outcomes The first 5 year phase under the new contribution modality and operational set-up shall allow to achieve the following outcomes: 1) Successful mobilization of funds from Swiss municipalities as an expression of the solidarity of Swiss people with communities in the global south in need of secured and affordable fresh water supply and of sanitation and hygiene services (target: average > 45’000
