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Background Information on Selected Projects and Activities
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Welcome to the Regional Office for the Horn of Africa
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) / Humanitarian Aid runs a regional office for the Horn of Africa which is integrated into the Swiss Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The SDC office is in charge of all development/humanitarian activities supported by the Swiss Government in the five countries that comprise the Horn: Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea. The main challenges the regional office is dealing with are the effects of recurrent extreme climatique events in the region, chronic poverty and the war in Somalia.

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About Swiss International Cooperation
Switzerland invests about CHF 2.8 billion a year to combat poverty and promote economic development in countries of the developing world as well as in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Two federal offices coordinate international development cooperation on behalf of the Swiss Confederation: the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
Background Information on Selected Projects and Activities
The SDC Regional Office Horn of Africa is working towards to a more peaceful and stable region, in which humanitarian needs are mitigated, livelihoods made more resilient and the necessity to flee human rights abuses and economic destitution are reduced. What follows is an insight into selected projects and activities.
 Contact Information
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Embassy of Switzerland
General Mathenge Drive 89
Spring Valley, Westlands
P.O. Box 2600, 00621 Nairobi

Tel.: +254 202 134 323, +254 706 210 297
Email:
nai.sdc@eda.admin.ch

Emergency in the Horn of Africa – Innovative and internationally coordinated refugee aid in the field

martin_zirn.jpgA portrait of Martin Zirn, an expert from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) and shelter planner with the UNHCR, provides an insight into the daily work of a humanitarian aid worker on a major emergency mission unfolding, namely, in the refugee camps for Somali refugees in Ethiopia’s Dollo Ado. See the video

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News
Local
20.11.2012
SDC Director Martin Dahinden in Ethiopia and Kenya
01.10.2012
Joint Learning Event: CSPM as part of the PCM cycle in fragile states
01.08.2012
SDC Disaster Risk Reduction and Food Security Workshop in Nairobi
International
27.05.2013
2012 Annual Report on Switzerland’s International Cooperation
04.04.2013
The SDC presents its priorities
03.04.2013
Switzerland's public development aid 2012
All News
Photo Galleries

Impressions from Kitui and Mwingi, Kenya

Impressions from Water for Livestock, Isiolo and Garissa County, Kenya

Impressions from Merti and the Goat and Camel Distribution

Impressions from the Horn of Africa Mission from Ambassador Manuel Bessler

Press Reports

SF "10 vor 10": Das Ende der Hungersnot (german, 03.02.2012)

DRS 4 aktuell: Somalia: «Hauptstadt Mogadischu eine zerstörte Stadt» (german, 16.01.2012)

NZZ: Somalia «prekär, aber nicht hoffnungslos» (german, 10.01.2012)

Selected Partners & Links

Smiling Boy in Merti, Kenya

Selected projects that receive SDC support:

IRIN
is a humanitarian news and analysis service covering the parts of the world often under-reported, misunderstood or ignored.
Radio ERGO 
provides the Somali population with valuable and life-saving information.

The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) provide timely and relevant information and analysis for better decision-making relating to short-term food insecurity and malnutrition as well as rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is a part of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs