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Website of the SDC in Mongolia: www.swiss-cooperation.admin.ch/mongolia/
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The 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 Swiss Government's bilateral commitment | 2010 |
2011 |
2012* |
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| 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 |
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:
- Employment and Income: access to practical vocational training. Improvement in the quality of animal products, along with the processing of raw products. Vegetable production, fodder cultivation, and strengthening of artisanal mining as a motor for rural development
- Environment and natural resources: measures to combat desertification; sustainable management of pasturelands
- Good governance: Improvement of the legal system in the domains of rights over land, mining licenses for artisanal mineworkers, as well as customer-oriented governmental-service provision and strengthened governmental and non-governmental institutions; improvement in the condition of women.
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:
- Government of Mongolia,
- Mongolian NGOs and the private sector,
- Swiss and international aid organizations;
- International and multilateral organizations.
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
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Local SDC contact address:
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Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar) |
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Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Switzerland - Consular Section Ulaanbaatar |
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| Phone | +976 11 331422 |
| Fax | +976 11 331420 |
| ulaanbaatar@sdc.net | |
| Website | www.swiss-cooperation.admin.ch/mongolia/ |
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Additional Information and Documents Here, you will find more publications, links, documents and articles about Swiss development cooperation and humanitarian aid in this country. |