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Caritas Switzerland prevents, combats and alleviates poverty worldwide in more than 20 countries. With its projects in development cooperation, it works in the areas of food security, water, climate protection, disaster prevention and migration as well as education for children and adults. It provides emergency relief in disasters and is actively involved in reconstruction work. Caritas Switzerland is also committed to helping people in Switzerland who are affected by poverty and are socially disadvantaged. Both its work in Switzerland and its international engagement are Caritas Switzerland’s contribution to the achievement of the SDGs, set out by the UN in the 2030 Agenda.

COMUNDO is active in development cooperation projects with around one hundred co-workers on three continents. This makes it the leading Swiss organisation in Personnel Development Cooperation (PDC). In the countries of operations, COMUNDO focuses on the protection of livelihoods in the areas of livelihood security, democracy and peace as well as environment. For this, the co-workers exchange their knowledge and experience with local partner organisations. In Switzerland, COMUNDO makes people conscious of global interrelationships and raises awareness among civil society and political decision-makers, in the interests of responsible action.

Helvetas is committed to a just world in which all men and women determine the course of their lives in dignity and security, using environmental resources in a sustainable manner. Helvetas is an independent organisation for development based in Switzerland with affiliated organisations in Germany and the United States. Helvetas supports poor and disadvantaged women, men and communities in about thirty developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

IMPACT Initiatives is a leading Geneva-based think-and-do tank, created in 2010 and firstly operationalised in 2012. IMPACT is a sister organisation of ACTED. IMPACT implements assessment, monitoring & evaluation and organisational capacity-building programmes in direct partnership with aid actors or through its inter-agency initiatives, REACH and AGORA. Headquartered in Geneva, IMPACT has an established field presence in over 20 countries. IMPACT’s team is composed of over 400 staff, including 160 full-time international experts, as well as a roster of consultants, who are currently implementing over 50 programmes across Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South America and Eastern Europe. Through its action, IMPACT aims at shaping practices and influencing policies in humanitarian and development settings, in order to positively impact the lives of people and their communities. We do so by co-constructing and promoting knowledge, tools, and practices which enable better decision-making by key aid stakeholders. In all our work, we promote the use of settlement approaches as a catalyst for more effective aid action. We believe that by understanding settlements through the lens of community dynamics, governance structures and socio-economic relationships, we can impact lives of people, improve communities’ development pathways and contribute to a fairer world.

INTERTEAM is committed to children and youth in Africa and Latin America so they can unfold their potentials and shape as hopefuls a self-determined future of their society. The support is provided by assignments of professionals who transfer their knowledge, skills and experience to partner organisations for two till three years combined with specific project financing.

Medair saves lives in emergencies and then stays to help people recover from crises with dignity. Our teams do whatever it takes to bring humanitarian relief where it is needed most. We work side by side with communities and partners to leave a lasting positive impact. Our relief work is mostly in these areas: Health, Nutrition, Psychosocial / Water, Sanitation & Hygiene / Shelter & Infrastructure.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality.

Mission 21 operates internationally to bring about a fairer world. Since 1815, we have been sending out a message of hope based on the Christian faith and human rights. All over the world, Mission 21 works to promote peace, improve education and healthcare, and to support agriculture and livelihood security. We focus our efforts on women and girls in particular. In 20 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, we are involved in over 100 projects in the fields of long-term development cooperation, emergency relief and reconstruction. We work jointly with over 70 partner churches and partner organisations across the globe, and we engage in professional exchange and cooperation at eye level. In Switzerland, Mission 21 carries out educational work and contributes to interfaith understanding. Mission 21 receives support from the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches (FSPC) and from the Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Swiss Confederation (SDC). Mission 21 is recognised as a charitable organisation and is certified by ZEWO (the Swiss organisation for transparency in charitable foundations) and EduQua (the Swiss quality label for further education institutions).

PBI provides protection and support to human rights defenders, for which we developed an integrated protection model that combines physical, digital, political and psychosocial approaches. Our signature methodology is a highly visible physical accompaniment on the ground combined with advocacy with authorities and the international community. We also facilitate safe spaces for multi-stakeholder interaction and are engaged in innovative capacity development initiatives in many countries to build activists’ resilience and ability to develop their own protection strategies. In addition, we undertake policy advocacy to strengthen national and international protection frameworks.

Service Civil International (SCI) is a volunteer organisation dedicated to promoting a culture of peace by organising international voluntary projects for people of all ages and backgrounds. The organisation consists of 42 branches and an ever growing number of partner organisations. SCI is open to all. It was one of the first organisations to divest itself of all political or religious affiliations in its work of promoting peace and intercultural understanding through practical action. Year after year, the organisation enables thousands of volunteers to participate in community projects. SCI’s vision is a world of peace; social justice and sustainable development, where all people live together with mutual respect and without recourse to any form of violence to solve conflict. SCI’s mission is to promote a culture of peace by organising international volunteering projects with local and global impact.

Swisscontact is an independent foundation, which operates exclusively in international development cooperation. Swisscontact’s work focuses on inclusive growth, driven by an innovative private sector that creates employment and income. In this way, Swisscontact creates the conditions for a socially and ecologically responsible private sector, contributing to poverty reduction. Swisscontact has about 1'400 employees in 36 countries.

Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss organisation for children’s aid. Through our health, protection and emergency relief programmes, we provide assistance to over three million children and their families in more than 45 countries each year.

World Vision Switzerland is an independent foundation and part of the worldwide network of the Christian humanitarian organisation World Vision. For over 65 years, we have been committed to those who need help most, regardless of ethnicity, religion, nationality and gender. We provide long-term development, emergency and disaster relief in crisis regions, and we actively promote children’s rights worldwide.

ADB is the leading international development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty and improving quality of life in the Asia and the Pacific Region. With about 3,000 staff dispersed globally in the headquarters (Manila, Philippines) and in 31 field offices across Asia, Europe and North America, ADB hires from 67 countries in these regions.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) offers the opportunity to be a part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation where you can use your talents to make a difference to people’s lives and help shape the future of the countries we invest in. The EBRD helps businesses and economies thrive. Through our financial investment, business services and involvement in high-level policy reform, we're well placed to promote entrepreneurship and change lives. Everything we do pursues the goal of advancing the transition to open, market economies, whilst fostering sustainable and inclusive growth.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialised United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.

Do you want to change the world? Join the ILO! The International Labour Organization is committed to promote “Decent Work for All” with a mandate to promote social justice, employment and internationally recognised human and labour rights. It is the only tripartite UN agency, bringing together representatives of governments, employers and workers working with 187 member States in over 100 countries. We seek staff of the highest standards of professional competence and integrity. If you want to work within an internationally diverse, globally challenging, highly principled environment, then the ILO is the place for you. Join our Talent Community at: https://jobs.ilo.org

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) helps protect and promote all human rights around the world. Headquartered in Geneva, the Office is also present in over 40 countries. OHCHR works to ensure the enforcement of universally recognised human rights norms, including through promoting both the universal ratification and implementation of human rights treaties and respect for the rule of law. It also aims to remove obstacles to the full realisation of all human rights and to prevent or stop human rights abuses.

UNDP is one of the main development organisations that contributes to poverty eradication and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. UNDP helps countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition and protection from disaster and conflict, and they traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education. UNICEF’s main activities concentrate on child protection and social inclusion, child survival, education, gender equality and emergencies.

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Through its double missions it works with partners to integrate qualified, highly motivated and well supported UN Volunteers into UN agencies, both in development programmes and peacekeeping operations. And, it promote the value and global recognition of volunteerism, championning environments in which volunteerism can flourish, and pushing for the ability and right of people to participate in their own development. UNV is active in around 130 countries every year. With Field Presences in over 80 countries, UNV is represented worldwide. UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and reports to the UNDP Executive Board.

End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.90 a day to no more than 3%. Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country. The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system. Its main tasks are the following: providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed; shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge; setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation; articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options; providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.

The FDFA forms and coordinates Swiss foreign policy on behalf of the Federal Council, pursues foreign policy objectives, safeguards the interests of Switzerland and promotes Swiss values.

The United Nations and International Organisations Division coordinates and implements Swiss policy on the United Nations (UN), its specialised agencies and other international organisations.

SHA places the victims at the centre of its engagement in a spirit of neutrality, independence and impartiality.

As a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to building a future worth living around the world. GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe, with the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector and governments of other countries all benefiting from our services. We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is our main commissioning party.

We are a unique training and career advisory centre that aims to develop the key skills of those involved in humanitarian and aid programmes. Many individuals and NGOs want to commit to a fairer world: we help them make a difference. A non-profit organisation founded in 1983, the Bioforce Institute has been working with major NGOs for more than 30 years. NGOs are involved in creating our training programmes and keeping them cutting-edge. Our trainers all are professional aid workers with a wealth of experience. Discover our leading school of humanitarian commitment to aid work.

Isango is the result of collaboration between Swiss organisations aiming to strengthen individual and organisational capacities for a relevant, contextualised and effective development process in “the South” ( eg. Comundo, DM-échange et mission, E-CHANGER; Eirene Suisse, FEDEVACO). Their conception of development cooperation puts forward a fruitful interpersonal, interprofessional and intercultural exchange through the deployment of professional volunteers. Isango plays a central role in the preparation of these professional volunteers as well as in the training of a range of professionals working in the development and social fields, in Switzerland and/or all around the world. Isango trainings and services support the empowerment of people and organisations using participatory methods.

Das Institut für Kommunikation & Führung (IKF) ist Kompetenzzentrum und führende Bildungs-, Forschungs- und Beratungsinstitution für Transkulturelle Kommunikation & Management in der Schweiz. Unterstützt werden wir von einem vielseitigen, starken nationalen und internationalen Expertennetzwerk. Wir freuen uns auch in diesem Jahr auf spannende und bereichernde Gespräche mit den verschiedenen Besuchern und Ausstellern am Forum cinfo. Wir beraten und informieren Sie am IKF-Stand gerne über unsere Weiterbildungen und freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!

swisspeace is a practice-oriented peace research institute. It analyses violent conflicts and develops strategies for their peaceful transformation. swisspeace aims to contribute to the improvement of conflict prevention and conflict transformation by producing innovative research, shaping discourses on international peace policy, developing and applying new peacebuilding tools and methodologies, supporting and advising other peace actors, as well as by providing and facilitating spaces for analysis, discussion, critical reflection and learning.

USI is Switzerland’s most international university. It is distinctive in the Swiss university system because of the originality of its degree curricula and areas of research.