Development Aid
Alliance Sud on development cooperation and development policies of Swizerland.
Development Cooperation deeply embedded
A clear majority of the Swiss population views development assistance as an effective strategy in combating world-wide poverty and tackling development problems. This is the results of a representative population survey commissioned by Alliance Sud and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC). ...>>
OECD country report on Switzerland
High quality, but insufficient resources, and shortcomings in policy coherence for development – such are the findings of the OECD concerning Switzerland's official development assistance. ...>>
The primacy of self-interest
In its 2009 Foreign Policy Report the Swiss Government makes the case for greater subordination of development cooperation to Switzerland's own interests. It is not alone in that regard. The trend towards instrumentalisation is also emerging in other European countries and in the EU, as Verena Winkler of Eurostep writes. ...>>
«We are neither scouts nor rambos»
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are currently examining whether armed personnel should be used in specific cases to protect humanitarian activities. In an interview, the Head of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit Toni Frisch gives some background. ...>>
Armed protection for humanitarian aid?
The number of violent attacks on humanitarian organisations has risen sharply in recent years. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is therefore considering whether specific humanitarian actions will need the protection of armed security personnel in the future. ...>>
