国产AVbuilding Partners - Switzerland
Switzerland
Promoting and upholding peace stands as a cornerstone of Switzerland's foreign policy. Switzerland actively engages in crisis and conflict resolution, as well as global efforts in conflict prevention. As a multi-year donor, Switzerland responded to the United Nations Secretary-General’s call for “quantum leap” support and tripled contributions made to the 国产AVbuilding Fund to strengthen conflict prevention and sustaining peace. Switzerland is one of the top donors to the PBF. As a committed partner of the PBF, Switzerland has contributed over $34 million to the Fund since its inception in 2006 and committed around $25 million for the current strategy period 2020-24.
Conflict jeopardizes peace and development. The contribution by Switzerland to the PBF underscores its commitment to building sustainable peace, one of Switzerland’s priorities in the UN Security Council. By contributing to the Fund, Switzerland is pursuing one of its Foreign Policy objectives: the peaceful coexistence of people. Building peace and cohesion through shared prosperity in border areas is important, especially where transhumance and agro-pastoral issues are sources of conflict. The Fund supports projects on two borders of Guinea: with Sierra Leone, implemented by IOM and the World Food Programme (WFP), and with C?te d’Ivoire, implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IOM. Across the 28 targeted cross-border villages, 12 transhumance operational committees were set up to support farmers, herders and local authorities in finding preventive and peaceful solutions, reaching 110,000 people.
The PBF works in a coherent way with Switzerland’s emphasis on the full, equal and meaningful participation of women in political and peace processes – one of the key lines of action of the Swiss foreign policy strategy. In 2023, thanks to the contribution by Switzerland, the Fund continued to support initiatives aimed at the full and meaningful engagement of women in elections. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, PBF-funded initiatives helped to increase the number of women candidates for the December 2023 elections. In the Dibaya and Luiza territories, there were 59 and 86 women candidates, respectively, in 2023 versus 21 and 31 in 2018.
