Global Funds, Networks & Others
Besides working closely with the United Nations and the International Finance Institutes, Switzerland promotes the provision of global public goods through partnerships with international organisations in accordance to its International Cooperation Strategy 2021-2024.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund is an independent, non-profit foundation that was incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2002.
Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR)
CGIAR is a global agricultural research partnership that binds a consortium of 15 international research centres and their partners engaged in research for sustainable development (including national and regional research institutes, civil society organisations, academia and the private sector) with providers of funding.
Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Established in 2002, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is the key global fund dedicated to strengthening education systems with the aim to provide quality education for children in low-income countries.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
The ICRC works worldwide to provide humanitarian aid for people affected conflict and armed violence and to promote the laws that protect those people. The ICRC acts as a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian actors and its most important responsibilities are: engaging a protection dialogue with all parties to the conflict, visiting detainees; reuniting separated families; distributing food and other essential items, protecting and strengthening essential infrastructure and system in the health, water, electricity, economic domain. The ICRC promotes the international humanitarian law and contributes to its development with the ambition to reduce the suffering of people in armed conflicts.