📋 Tender Overview
In order to fight increasing gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian and conflict contexts, address the root causes in a sustainable way and to contribute to lasting change, Switzerland provides targeted, multi-year funding for GBV prevention and response, and invests in rights-based and survivor-centred projects of three key partners.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Gender
Sexual & gender-based violence
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2029
CHF 5’000’000
The project in brief
Background Gender-based violence (GBV)1 is the most prevalent human rights violation in the world, a key challenge to achieving SDG 5 and a systematic harmful pattern in both conflict and non-conflict settings with estimated cost of 2% of global GDP (USD 1.6 billion). One in three women and girls globally have been subjected to intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence or both at least once in their lives, with devastating immediate and long-term impacts on physical and mental health, education and economic well-being. The root cause of GBV is gender inequality and gender stereotypes which requirescommunity-based action against GBV.
Objectives Promote and support quality assistance and services for survivors of gender-based violence that are safe, as well as influence normative frameworks around gender-based violence.
Target groups
Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and their communities
Multilateral agencies and fora, such as the UN System
Governmental and nongovernmental actors working on gender-based violence
Gender-Based violence practitioners
Medium-term outcomes
Service delivery to survivors of GBV is enhanced
Swiss priorities are embedded in global norms and international discourse on GBV
Enhanced accountability, learning and knowledge production, especially at a local level
Results Expected results: Selected key outputs include, but are not limited to:
O1: Population in need / at risk of GBV that receive specialized care
O1: CRSV survivors receive interim reparative measures
O2: Advocacy efforts lead to policy, programmatic and legislative changes at international and national levels
O3:Technical assistance to governments, civil society and practitioners
O3:Local actors, especially Women-led Organisations and survivors, have increased leadership in GBV coordination
Results from previous phases: Global Survivors Fund (GSF): Over 3000 survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence have received interim reparative measures since 2020, 8 governments received technical support. United Nations Population Fund, Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (UN-FPA GBV AoR): The GBV AoR helpdesk treated over 100 inquiries from the field in 2023. Conflict-related Sexual Violence Multi-Partner Trust Fund (CRSV MPTF): In 2023 in the DRChundreds of survivors of CRSV received support, same as in Ukraine and in Mali, where mo
