Swiss Embassy Brochure

Collaboration • Strengthen the country systems at the federal, provincial and local level wherever possible through SDC programmes by fostering cooperation and partnerships.

SWISS DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION IN NEPAL

• Implement SDC activities by contributing to or mandating programmes and maintaining strategic partnerships with existing Swiss implementing partners.

• Coordinate with like-minded development partners through joint programmes.

Social Inclusion and Governance • Apply a targeted Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approach to SDC’s programmes to ensure equitable benefits for all.

• Enhance accountability and transparency of the federal institutions through SDC’s development interventions.

Target Focus • Support all spheres of the government for the implementation of the constitution, particularly focusing on Province 1.

• Ensure interventions target women and members of socially discriminated groups.

Nepal is a priority country for the Swiss development cooperation; Nepal and Switzerland can now look back on over 60 years of close collaboration and partnership. Through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland focuses its support on the implementation of the federal constitution and on fostering equitable socioeconomic development in Nepal.

SWISS COOPERATION STRATEGY NEPAL 2018-2022

OUR FOUNDATIONS

AREAS WE ARE ACTIVE IN

SDC Nepal aligns its work with: • The principle of solidarity based on article 54 of the Swiss Constitution • The Dispatch on Switzerland’s Strategy for International Cooperation 2021-2024

Federal State Building • Support the Government of Nepal, mainly at the provincial

• The Swiss Cooperation Strategy Nepal 2018 - 2022

and local level, to build inclusive and accountable institutions by

• Nepal’s Constitution of 2015

fostering knowledge, networks and capacities.

• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Enhance the skills of elected representatives by promoting leadership, especially of women leaders.

• Collaborate with development partners to contribute to Nepal’s

WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE • Women and men benefit from equitable socioeconomic development and exercise their rights and responsibilities in an inclusive federal state.

• SDC pursues this goal through three integrated areas of intervention: Federal State Building, Employment & Income and Migration.

federalisation process.

Employment and Income • Support the Government of Nepal and private institutions

Migration • Support the Government of Nepal to ensure access to

to expand markets and increase the demand for skilled

information and other migration related services to make

labour through better physical connectivity and

migration safer and beneficial for all; and support the

commercialisation.

development and implementation of respective policies.

• Support farmers and workers, especially from

• Enable women migrant workers to make informed

disadvantaged groups to improve land and labour

decisions about migration and acquire skills in

productivity through access to irrigation.

occupations that allow employment in the formal sector.

• Strengthen access to quality vocational education and

• Support family members of migrant workers to address

training to provide women, men and youth with the skills

the social implications of migration, such as stigma,

they need to find gainful employment in the labour market.

discrimination and distress, through financial literacy

• Support the development of a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem that can foster greater private sector

courses and psychosocial counselling.

• Ensure migrant workers, and especially women, have

investments and economic opportunities for women, men,

access to quality vocational education to raise their

and youth.

qualifications and facilitate their access to better jobs and decent working conditions abroad.