📋 Tender Overview
The EdM-SoMe Alliance promotes equal access to quality basic health and education services, adapted to local socio-economic realities. It works for vulnerable, most disadvantaged groups: women, children, and poor people in rural areas. The Alliance strengthens national health and education systems and empowers the civil society in the contexts where it is active. The Alliance stands out in its collaboration with the private sector, academic/research partnerships combining education and health.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Education
Health
Primary education
Primary health care
Reproductive health & rights
Health systems strengthening
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
CHF 9’559’000
The project in brief
Background The international environment is characterised by numerous multiple crises. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the escalation in the Middle East, food insecurity, debt burden and inflation, climate change and the energy crisis are all having a direct impact on the world's population. They particularly affect the most vulnerable, mostly women and children and result in increasing humanitarian needs. Accelerated change is accompanied by increased uncertainty: The world is becoming more fragmented, unstable and unpredictable. Whilst the vision to reach the Sustainable Development Goals remains, challenges including the accelerating global food and nutrition crisis, shrinking civic and humanitarian space, the erosion of rule of law, intensifying armed conflicts, more frequent climate-related disasters, international migration and internal displacement, exacerbated demographics and an important gender gap hamper progress in reaching them and pose a main challenge for all actors engaged in Switzerland’s International Cooperation. Most of its 16 intervention countries of the EdM-SoMe Alliance in Sub-Sahara Africa, South-East Asia are confronted with degrading health conditions: disability and death due to avoidable maternal, new-born, child, reproductive and infectious causes and with new challenges such as chronic life-threatening diseases, emerging epidemics, or anti-microbial resistance. Basic education remains inaccessible for more than 70 million children. Often, the quality of education is low; children leave school without having acquired most basic competencies. Girls are disproportionally affected and have significantly poorer prospects of completing their education.
Objectives Through good health and education, children, adults, families and communities are enabled to develop to their full potential according to their rights and aspirations, by working with duty bearers, by mobilizing local resources and by empowering rights holders for increased participation, service utilization and community action.
Results of the organisation's previous engagement In the domain of health, over 271’500 women and new-borns were assisted by qualified clinicians during childbirth and right after. Near
