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Films - An insight into the SDC

A number of short films provide an insight into the SDC’s mission

Global themes
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Questions and answers

Questions and answers regarding development policy
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Message 2013-2016

What are the new strategic orientations of Switzerland’s international cooperation, and how is the budget broken down among them? Information on the funding earmarked and concrete examples can be found in this dossier:
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Multilateral cooperation: increasing significance

Poverty, climate change, food security and migration: all have causes and consequences worldwide. This is where multilateral cooperation comes in by formulating widely supported solutions and fostering their implementation. Switzerland addresses multilateral cooperation actively and effectively, and supports the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) both politically and financially.

In the spotlight

Bulletin d'information «Accent mutilatéral»
Rio+20 devra montrer les dents
La présente édition de L’Accent multilatéral est consacrée au thème 'De l’économie verte au développement durable'.

Bulletin présent d'information "Accent multilatéral"
plus de "Accent multilatéral"
Dossier Rio+20

Accaparement des terres
Améliorer les politiques foncières pour lutter contre l'insécurité alimentaire
Le Comité de la sécurité alimentaire mondiale (CSA) a adopté aujourd'hui à Rome les Directives volontaires sur le foncier. La Suisse a soutenu activement l'élaboration de cet instrument clé pour la sécurité alimentaire et la gestion durable des ressources naturelles, en particulier dans le contexte de l'accaparement des terres. Elle entend continuer à soutenir sa mise en œuvre notamment au niveau des pays en voie de développement.

Communiqué de presse, 11.05.2012

PAM
Switzerland elected to Executive Board of the World Food Programme
From 2013-2014 Switzerland will be a member of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP). The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations elected Switzerland in April 2012. The WFP is one of the SDC’s most important humanitarian partners. As a board member Switzerland can bring its policies, interests and values in to the work of the WFP.

Switzerland and the Executive Board of the World Food Programme
The WFP and the Swiss engagement

20 to 21 April 2012, Washington
IMF and World Bank Group 2012 Spring Meetings
The main topics for the Development Committee have been the use of the private sector as an instrument for development and the need for social safety nets.

Media release
Spring meeting
Sanitation and Water For All High Level Meeting

Millennium Development Goals
Breakthrough in the fight against poverty and in gaining access to safe drinking water
The number of people living in extreme poverty has halved since 1990 and, in the same period, an additional two billion people now have access to safe drinking water.

Article, 25.04.2012

Die UNO- und Schweizer Flagge [© Keystone]

Multilateral cooperation
10th anniversary of Switzerland’s accession to the United Nations
On 3 March 2002, Switzerland became the 190th member State of the United Nations. The SDC, which has been a longstanding partner of many UN specialised agencies such as UNDP and UNICEF, has greatly benefited from Switzerland’s membership of the UN and nowadays enjoys a strengthened position within its decision-making bodies.

Dossier 10th anniversary of Switzerland’s accession to the United Nations
The SDC’s multilateral cooperation

MDGs
Interim report on success in achieving Millennium Development Goals
The Federal Council approved the Confederation’s 2010 interim report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), summaris-ing the results so far. Switzerland is particularly active in three areas: water, health and education.

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