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Published on 27 May 2024

Key guiding documents

WE ARE WATER is the prominent statement by Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), in the Foreword of the FDFA’s Guidelines on Water 2022-25. Concrete information on the strategic orientation of the Section Water is available through the currently implemented Programme Framework 2021-24 and the most recent Project Portfolio featuring ongoing projects

1 January 2022

Guidelines on Water 2022-25

The Guidelines on Water 2022–25 substantiate the principles of the Foreign Policy Strategy 2020−23 and the IC Strategy 2021−24 in relation to the foreign policy thematic priority of water.

Guidelines on Water 2022-25

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1 January 2021

GPW Strategic Framework 2021 - 2024

SDC's Programme Framework for the Global Programme Water

PDF7.48 MB

1 January 2023

GPW Projects Portfolio 2023

The SW has the overall goal to support inclusive systemic changes towards a water-secure world where people can safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water in order to sustain livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development; to ensure protection against waterborne diseases and water-related disasters; and to preserve ecosystems in a climate of peace and political stability.

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1 January 2018

SDC Guide: Integrating Governance into Water

This guide is one in a series written to support SDC staff in integrating governance in SDC’s priority themes/sectors – in this case, water. It is related to SDC’s Guideline on Integrating Governance (SDC,2020)

PDF886.71 kB

1 August 2019

Gender and Water - SDC guidance sheet

This thematic guidance sheet is one in a series written to support SDC staff in ensuring that gender issues are taken into account transversally in different thematic domains - in this case water.

PDF810.42 kB

SDC Water Network RésEAU

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
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Switzerland - 3003 Bern