Federal Administration admin.ch
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
SDC – on location worldwide

Visit Swiss Cooperation Office websites.

Switzerland
Switzerland 
Search under:
Specific projects
Cooperation Strategy
mongolia.gif
  • Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Mongolia 2007-2012
    Download (PDF, 2363 KB) [en]  
SDC projects

 


  • Livestock Project
    Mongolia
    Download (PDF, 275 KB) [en]  
  • "Green Gold" Pasture Ecosystem Management Project
    Mongolia
    Download (PDF, 273 KB) [en]  
  • Potato Programme
    Mongolia
    Download (PDF, 653 KB) [en]  
  • Sustainable Artisanal Mining Project
    Mongolia
    Download (PDF, 389 KB) [en]  

Mongolia

Website of the SDC in Mongolia: www.swiss-cooperation.admin.ch/mongolia/

MONGOLIA.GIFThe SDC started up activities in Mongolia in 2001 with aid measures in connection with the "dzud" big-freeze disaster, following a joint appeal by the UN and the government of Mongolia. Since then, cooperation has gradually moved from Humanitarian Aid to Development Cooperation programmes. The SDC opened a Cooperation Office in Ulaanbaatar in 2004.

The goal of the SDC programme is to contribute to improving and providing more secure livelihoods for herders. Support is also provided for herders who have given up their nomadic way of life and moved to the cities. The emphasis is on the sustainable use and rehabilitation of natural resources and supporting environmentally friendly social and economic development in the country.

The Swiss Government's bilateral commitment 2010
Mio. CHF
2011
Mio. CHF
2012*
Mio. CHF
SDC
Bilateral development cooperation 11.65 13.33 13.40
Humanitarian aid
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
Economic Cooperation and Development
Total SDC/SECO commitment 11.65 13.33 13.40
Other Federal Offices
FDFA Human Security Division and Directorate of International Law 0.05
State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) 0.12 0.10 0.10
Total other Federal Offices 0.12 0.15 0.10
Total 11.77 13.48 13.50
* planned; total based on available data
Bilateral development cooperation excluding programme contributions to NGOs
– = nil or amount < 5'000 CHF

Development Cooperation: Priorities

The SDC is involved mainly in the following:

The Swiss Cooperation Strategy is aligned with the Government of Mongolia’s development goals, fostering poverty reduction and the achievement of minimum living standards, private-sector-led growth, good governance, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the regional development policy aiming to spread the benefits of development more equitably across the country. The main topics in all spheres focus on the creation of employment and income, institutional capacity development and governance.

SDC works with:


Humanitarian Aid: Priorities

Switzerland provided humanitarian assistance in Mongolia from 2001 to 2008, mainly to herders, who suffered from the dry summers and exceptionally harsh winter conditions ("dzud") between 1999 and 2003. Assistance also goes to children and socially disadvantaged people.

The dramatic loss of animals during the three consecutive winters of dzud has endangered the existence of a large number of herder families. The main focus is therefore on assistance to the traditional nomadic population. However, in view of the very difficult social situation in the capital and the provincial centres after the transition phase from a planned to a free market economy in Mongolia, the recent dzud disasters are probably only the tip of the iceberg. After 4 years of dzud-disaster relief and preparedness projects, the Swiss Humanitarian Aid programme switched its activities more towards social services in 2004-2005. Here, the SDC adopted the cash approach tried and tested by other countries, i.e. herder families received a certain amount of money by bank transfer to enable them to purchase their main requirements on the local market. Most of the herders bought livestock and appreciated the unbureaucratic aid approach based on mutual trust.


Background information Mongolia

Facts and figures
Surface area
Population
Annual population growth rate (since 1990)
Life expectancy at birth women / men
Adult illiteracy rate: women / men
Gross Domestic Product GDP per capita
Percentage of population with less than 2 USD per day
1'564'120
2.7
1.1
70 / 64
2 / 3
1'573
..
km2
mill.
%
years
%
USD
%

Source: World Bank's World Development Indicators 2011

Background information provided by the BBC


Local SDC contact address:

Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)

Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Switzerland - Consular Section Ulaanbaatar
“Tengeriin Tsag” Centre
Olympic street 12, Khoroo 1
Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Po/Box 37, Ulaanbaatar 210648, Mongolia

Phone +976 11 331422
Fax +976 11 331420
Email ulaanbaatar@sdc.net
Website www.swiss-cooperation.admin.ch/mongolia/

Additional Information and Documents

Here, you will find more publications, links, documents and articles about Swiss development cooperation and humanitarian aid in this country.