2022 Signatory Report Overview

Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland

Organization HQ:

Switzerland

Organization Type:

Member State

Website Address:

https://www.fdfa.admin.ch/eda/en/home.html

Reported Information:

A.1.1
MS: Contribute to direct assistance to local women’s organizations, including through UN-led peacebuilding mechanisms such as the WPHF, UN Women Global Facility, and civil society led initiatives, and through the organization of a pledging conference to mobilize resources for existing initiatives.
A.1.3
MS: Engage with all supported humanitarian appeals and crisis/conflict recovery programmes to ensure that the specific needs of affected women and girls are addressed, and that response/recovery plans contributes to enhancing gender equality, including by basing them on inclusive consultations with women and women’s groups, conducting gender based analyses, and using sex, age, and disability disaggregated data.
B.2.2
MS: Advocate for recognition and inclusion of independent delegations which prioritize the inclusion of women.
B.3.1
MS: Nominate and appoint women as mediators, special representatives, and special envoys, and ensure male mediators are gender advocates who effectively facilitate women’s full, equal and meaningful participation and the inclusion of gender-related provisions in peace processes.
B.3.3
MS: Advocate for and adopt specific tools to increase women’s full, equal and meaningful participation, including through special measures and targets, codes of conduct that commit to women’s inclusion, and inclusive selection measures.
E.1.1
MS: Provide regular funding for comprehensive, gender sensitive, survivor-centered, non-discriminatory, trauma informed services – including sexual and reproductive health services - for survivors of GBV and other protection needs, e.g. through sustainable, flexible, core funding for women’s organizations that provide these services.
E.1.2
MS: Provide funding to ensure that all national and international investigations and accountability mechanisms have dedicated gender expertise, protection expertise, and child rights expertise to document/investigate/prosecute/redress GBV in line with international standards and to integrate a gender analysis of violations.
E.3.2
MS: Develop and implement national laws against online gender-based violence against women human rights defenders and women peacebuilders.
E.4.1
MS: Develop and support protection mechanisms for young women leaders and their rights, including through the enforcement of policies and mechanisms to investigate and address the human rights violations young women face.
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Report Summary

In 2022, Switzerland reported on contributions of direct assistance to local women’s rights organizations. As co-chair of the Pooled Fund Working Group for 2022 to 2023, Switzerland leads localization efforts and facilitates common commitments of the Caucus on the role of intermediaries, which ensures the active participation of local actors in consultations and meetings. In 2022, Switzerland partnered with UN Women to support the establishment of the national Women Peacebuilders’ Network in Lebanon, a commitment in Lebanon’s NAP. The network will be officially launched during WPS Week in 2023. Following the example set by Compact Signatories Ireland and Mexico, alongside Kenya, who jointly affirmed commitments to prioritizing the WPS agenda during their respective Council presiden¬cies, likewise Switzerland pledge to prioritize the WPS agenda during their forthcoming presidency by joining the Statement of Shared Commitments on Women, Peace and Security. In Zimbabwe, Switzerland supported activities to promote women’s inclusion in the coun¬try’s inter-party dialogue. Activities included the elaboration of a women manifesto, political party gender action plans and their implementation as well as cross-party gender-focused peacebuilding actions. Following Switzerland’s recommendation, in Nigeria the National Peace Committee extended its membership to influential and respected women. The Committee is essential in facilitating mechanisms to prevent election-related violence on national and regional levels.
In 2022, Switzerland reported on multi-year sustained financing commitments for example Switzerland has committed to spend CHF 10–12 million per year on GBV prevention and response, while Ireland has committed to three-year funding of €5,600,000 through the Irish Aid/IRC partnership and a €1.2 million grant from the civil society Fund to Saferworld. Switzerland has worked to provide protections for online harassment through dedicated funding to the OSCE’s project Safety of Female Journalists Online. In 2022, the project raised awareness about the consequences of online harassment and attacks against women journalists and supported relevant stakeholders in developing policies, proce¬dures and measures to improve the safety of women journalists online. Additionally, Switzerland – with partner organization Legal Action Worldwide – supported civil society efforts in Sri Lanka to improve digital security for women peacebuilders, human rights lawyers and women human rights defenders and to protect female politicians against gendered online harassment.

REGIONS OF implementation

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Principles of Transformation

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Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus
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Resourced and Sustainable
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* As assessed by Signatory

A.1.1
MS: Contribute to direct assistance to local women’s organizations, including through UN-led peacebuilding mechanisms such as the WPHF, UN Women Global Facility, and civil society led initiatives, and through the organization of a pledging conference to mobilize resources for existing initiatives.
A.1.3
MS: Engage with all supported humanitarian appeals and crisis/conflict recovery programmes to ensure that the specific needs of affected women and girls are addressed, and that response/recovery plans contributes to enhancing gender equality, including by basing them on inclusive consultations with women and women’s groups, conducting gender based analyses, and using sex, age, and disability disaggregated data.
B.2.2
MS: Advocate for recognition and inclusion of independent delegations which prioritize the inclusion of women.
B.3.1
MS: Nominate and appoint women as mediators, special representatives, and special envoys, and ensure male mediators are gender advocates who effectively facilitate women’s full, equal and meaningful participation and the inclusion of gender-related provisions in peace processes.
B.3.3
MS: Advocate for and adopt specific tools to increase women’s full, equal and meaningful participation, including through special measures and targets, codes of conduct that commit to women’s inclusion, and inclusive selection measures.
E.1.1
MS: Provide regular funding for comprehensive, gender sensitive, survivor-centered, non-discriminatory, trauma informed services – including sexual and reproductive health services - for survivors of GBV and other protection needs, e.g. through sustainable, flexible, core funding for women’s organizations that provide these services.
E.1.2
MS: Provide funding to ensure that all national and international investigations and accountability mechanisms have dedicated gender expertise, protection expertise, and child rights expertise to document/investigate/prosecute/redress GBV in line with international standards and to integrate a gender analysis of violations.
E.3.2
MS: Develop and implement national laws against online gender-based violence against women human rights defenders and women peacebuilders.
E.4.1
MS: Develop and support protection mechanisms for young women leaders and their rights, including through the enforcement of policies and mechanisms to investigate and address the human rights violations young women face.
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