📋 Tender Overview
Protection is one of the four priority areas of SDC’s Humanitarian Aid in line with the International Cooperation Strategy 2025-2028. To reduce the Protection risks of vulnerable people, this project will improve both the prevention of violations and the response thereto. It will do so by championing International Humanitarian Law, capacitating Protection-mandated partners to deliver safe, accountable and inclusive services, and by supporting humanitarian actors and the humanitarian system to ensure all humanitarian action enhances the safety and security of affected populations.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Emergency Relief and Protection
Protection, access & security
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028
CHF 4’000’000
The project in brief
Background At the beginning of 2025, the humanitarian outlook is bleak. Humanitarian needs continue to increase, while humanitarian actors and donors are struggling to keep up. The United Nations project that 305 million people will require life-saving assistance and Protection over the course of the year. Attacks on civilians and other unlawful killings, attacks on civilian objects, restrictions to freedom of movement, siege and forced displacement threaten lives and drive humanitarian needs. Grave violations against children have reached unprecedented levels: around one in every five children in the world—approximately 400 million—are living in or fleeing from conflict zones. Gender-based violence remains an important risk in conflict and non-conflict settings alike. At a time of increased pressure on humanitarian budgets and principles, Protection activities and investments in safe and inclusive humanitarian aid are increasingly jeopardized. Women and girls are projected to will be at even greater risks as already limited services will come under further threat.
Objectives The most vulnerable and at risk persons in humanitarian crisis situations are protected from threats to their lives, physical and psychological integrity, and threats to their dignity.
Target groups Direct beneficiaries:
The international humanitarian system and its actors (UN agencies, inter-agency actors, IN-GOs, NNGOs) Indirect beneficiaries:
The most vulnerable/at-risk populations in humanitarian crises
Medium-term outcomes
The international humanitarian system systematically produces Protection outcomes1 for people in crisis
Protection-mandated partners and agencies have increased capacity to deliver special-ized programming and to advance the CoP
CoP and PoC are firmly integrated within SDC programming through stystematic application in strategic planning processes
Results Expected results: 1.1: Support to the full roll out of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Action Plan 1.2: Support to dedicated country-level CoP efforts through the engagement of the PDG 1.3: Strategic use of secondments to support Protection coordination, programming and CoP in individual agencies and coordination bodies 2.1: Sharpe
