Key takeaways from our field visit to Cox’s Bazar #refugee camps #Bangladesh 🇧🇩 :

1⃣Despite tireless efforts, #Rohingya refugee situation remains dire.
2⃣Reduced funding strains humanitarian response.
3⃣Urgent action needed for sustainable, mid-term projects.

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Today is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, which also marks the birthday of Henry Dunant, the 🇨🇭visionary who founded the ICRC in 1863
Let’s celebrate his legacy and the principles and #humanitarian efforts of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement!

🤝 Handing over the reins with gratitude as Manuel Bessler officially passes on the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group Global Chair to Dominik Stillhart.

#Switzerland 🇨🇭 remains committed to enhancing international search and rescue capabilities for global disaster response.

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Field trainings from Swiss experts have already become a good tradition in our 🤝 cooperation with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Last week, 🇨🇭 instructors visited Odesa and Mykolaiv to conduct trainings for 🇺🇦 rescuers on oil leakage, its collection and filtration.

RT 'In Swiss Development and Cooperation responses (e.g. floods in Pakistan), much has been abt rebuilding schools. Indeed, there's an important intersection of climate & education'

Dominik Stillhart, Head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit @ #HNPW2024 session on EiE & Climate Change

Via Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies

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We donated a faecal sludge laboratory to IOM South Sudan .

Together with IOM teams, our specialists conduct training & take samples in Bentiu & Malakal from the faecal sludge treatment systems.

The aim is to monitor waste #water , prevent diseases & protect the environment.

Cooperation with the most affected 🇺🇦 cities on the frontline continues despite the shelling. In Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region, Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit is providing equipment to a targeted water utility company.
Recently,🇨🇭 humanitarian colleagues visited the site & met with locals.

Opening day of #HNPW !

Humanitarian practitioners from various fields across the 🌍will join the virtual Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks #HNPW co-hosted by
Swiss Development and Cooperation & UN Humanitarian

Join us ➡️ vosocc.unocha.org/Report.aspx?pa…

During the last visit to Donetsk Region, we met with the State Emergency Service unit in Sloviansk, which has received the equipment from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit
🇨🇭 continues to support the work of rescuers & first responders in 🇺🇦, so they can support people who need it the most.

“On Friday, the oil depot was hit. The sorbents from 🇨🇭 were delivered in 2 days. For the first time, I have seen such a quick assistance. Without it, these petroleum products would end up in drinking water supplies,” the head of the Kharkiv Department of Environmental Protection

In Donetsk region, Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit and Swiss Development and Cooperation continues to support local people who are suffering from shelling, water shortages, blackouts and destruction of critical infrastructure.
Learn about the situation on the ground and 🇨🇭 support from the first hand 👇

Au total, la Suisse 🇨🇭 a alloué 83 millions de francs à l’aide humanitaire depuis le début de la guerre, dont environ un tiers a été consacré au #Soudan et deux tiers aux pays voisins.

Au total, la Suisse 🇨🇭 a alloué 83 millions de francs à l’aide humanitaire depuis le début de la guerre, dont environ un tiers a été consacré au #Soudan et deux tiers aux pays voisins.

War has been raging in #Sudan 🇸🇩 for a year now.

#Switzerland 🇨🇭 has been working within the framework of international cooperation, Good Offices and the #UNSC 🇺🇳 to support the people affected and to put an end to the conflict.

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Check out the video testimonial of our colleague in #Ukraine ⬇️