Our grant allocations are based on strategic alignment, long-term impact, and innovation.

Adeso is a pioneering African social enterprise that has become a global thought leader in locally led development and humanitarian assistance. Adeso develops pathways towards financial independence, while being a Proof of Concept and working model for other civil society organisations. They develop practical solutions that tackle the obstacles holding back locally led development to unlock opportunities that create lasting and sustainable change.

We support the Pledge for Change, hosted by Adeso, which represents a series of transformative commitments from some of the world’s largest INGOs to transform their ways of working, address unequal power dynamics, and drive change toward locally led actions. Through three key pledges - Equitable Partnerships, Authentic Storytelling and Influencing Wider Change – these organisations are reshaping their approach to shift power and resources to inspire broader reform across the aid sector.

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The FHN is a member-based network of grassroots, local, and national women’s rights organisations (WROs), regional networks, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), and feminist leaders working to strengthen the agency and amplify the voices of women, girls and gender-diverse persons in emergencies, and to transform the humanitarian system into one that is guided by feminist principles. 

We support the FHN to transform the humanitarian system to ensure WROs have the resources, agency, and platform to influence, design, and implement effective, sustainable humanitarian actions that meet the needs of women and girls. Under this partnership, we will pilot the creation of a national feminist humanitarian platform in Uganda, led by Community Empowerment for Peace and Development West Nile (CEPAD-WN). This platform will address the unmet needs of diverse women and girls in the current crisis while leveraging evidence to drive systemic change in the humanitarian system in Uganda and globally.

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The ICRC is an impartial, neutral and independent humanitarian organisation whose mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. It acts in response to emergencies while promoting respect for international humanitarian law and its implementation in national law.

We support the ICRC to mitigate and prevent sexual violence in fragile operational contexts affected by conflict and violence, including in Ethiopia, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Colombia. Our support enables the ICRC to enhance community resilience against sexual violence by strengthening community-led solutions, shaping attitudes and behaviours among weapons bearers, and increasing awareness of the harm caused by sexual violence.

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IRC is an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) focusing on helping people affected by humanitarian crises - including the climate crisis - to survive, recover and rebuild their lives.

We support IRC and its local partners Appui Moral Matériel Intellectuel à l'Enfant (AMMIE) and Association Monde Rurale (AMR) in Burkina Faso to improve universal and equitable access to quality sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls, while also strengthening their protection and economic empowerment.

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MSF is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality.

We support the emergency response work of MSF in several humanitarian contexts, most recently in Sudan and supporting Sudanese refugees in Chad.

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NEAR is a movement with a bold ambition – to reshape the top-down humanitarian and development aid system to one that is locally driven and owned by empowering and providing access to local and national NGOs in the Global South to take a positive and active role in the global aid system. The NEAR Network is a coalition of 256 local civil society organisations from the Global South, along with 21 national network partners representing thousands of members across 40 countries.

We support the NEAR Network to strengthen local humanitarian leadership and action. We contribute to their Change Fund, a dedicated global emergency response mechanism that ensures rapid resource disbursement directly to local actors, enabling swift and effective crisis response.

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The Global Resilience Fund, hosted by We are Purposeful, is a collaborative feminist fund that works with and for girls and young feminists who are living through and responding to humanitarian crises. GRF focuses exclusively on addressing the often-overlooked humanitarian needs of girls and young women in crisis settings.

We support GRF to resource and empower girls and young women in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to lead humanitarian responses that better address the needs of their communities. We also support girls and young women in Mali and Niger to strengthen their preparedness and anticipation of crises, while enhancing their technological expertise and capacity for action.

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The Nexus Consortium Somalia is a platform composed of eight local Somali NGOs and two international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) - Save the Children and Oxfam – dedicated to advancing locally-led change in Somalia. By integrating humanitarian aid, development, and peacebuilding, the platform aims to drive sustainable, long-term impact.

We support the Nexus Consortium Somalia in mitigating the impacts of climate change and strengthening the resilience of the most vulnerable communities in Somaliland through a nexus approach and a community- and survivor-led response.

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The New Humanitarian (TNH) is an independent, global, non-profit newsroom that believes in journalism as a force for good. TNH produces fact-based journalism from the heart of conflicts and disasters to build understanding of how to improve the lives of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world.

We support TNH in its efforts to improve the lives of millions affected by humanitarian crises by fostering informed, inclusive global dialogue and advancing transparency and accountability in humanitarian response efforts.

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The START Network is a collaboration of 98 local and international humanitarian aid agencies with a footprint across 158 countries. Their vision is for a world in which people receive high quality humanitarian aid when they experience disasters and where communities are prepared and resilient for when crises occur. They are working to improve the traditional humanitarian system, using innovative new models to create more proactive, cost-effective and contextually appropriate humanitarian action.

We support the START Network to quickly support people affected by forgotten crises to prepare, respond and recover through its member led START Fund. We also support the Network to work with communities to prepare for crises through its START READY risk forecasting facility.

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The War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) that delivers vital child protection, education, psychosocial support, and youth empowerment, working exclusively to improve the resilience and wellbeing of children living with violence and armed conflict.

We support the War Child Alliance in Uganda and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to provide and research mental health and psychosocial support for conflict-affected children and their caregivers.

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The Living Peace Institute (LPI) is a Congolese non-governmental organisation based in Goma that develops and implements community-based gender specific mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes for families and youth affected by war and conflict. The evidence-based MHPSS methodology applies a gender specific lens in addressing traumatic disempowering experiences of men, boys, women, and girls through reinforcing non-violent coping strategies that are culturally appropriate.

We support the Living Peace Institute in the Democratic Republic of Congo to establish the Living Peace Academy (LPA), which will build the capacity of organizations that work in humanitarian contexts to improve the quality of mental health services offered to communities affected by violence.

The Titi Foundation is a women-led, South Sudan non-governmental organization, that offers responses for returnees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their host communities in need of assistance to obtain durable solutions, addressing their food security, livelihood, education, water, hygiene and sanitation, peace building and conflict mitigation and nutrition needs.

We support the Titi Foundation and their consortium of 6 women, youth and refugee led organisations to empower Internally Displaced People (IDPs), returnees, host communities, and refugees to become self-reliant. To achieve this, Titi Foundation and the six local partners will implement three key programmatic approaches: the Survivor Community-Led Response (SCLR), anticipatory and early warning strategies, and climate-smart livelihoods, all designed to reinforce existing community initiatives to cope with humanitarian crises.

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The Association Tin Tua is a Burkinabè non-governmental organization that has been active within local communities in the Eastern, Sahel, and Central-Eastern regions of Burkina Faso. Since its inception, Tin Tua has believed in the potential of local producers and has dedicated itself to empowering them with the necessary skills to become self-reliant through education and training. Today, the Tin Tua Association is a community-based organization made up of farmers' organizations grouped whose capacities have been strengthened to enable them to carry out initiatives that contribute to the development of their localities.

We support Tin Tua to strengthen the socio-economic resilience of internally displaced individuals (IDPs) and those local communities hosting them to conflict and climate shocks through the provision of integrated humanitarian assistance, the graduation approach, the promotion of gender equality, and the strengthening of social cohesion.

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Amnesty is a movement of 10 million people all over the world dedicated to ending grave abuses of human rights, acting in solidarity and compassion with people everywhere and getting justice for those whose rights have been violated.  Amnesty was founded with the premise that people-power and mobilisation brings about change and the movement’s vision is of a world a world where everyone can enjoy the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights mechanisms.

We support Amnesty to nurture, catalyse and sustain collective action towards justice, accountability and transparency in defence of human rights in Eswatini, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar and Sudan.

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Cultural Survival is an indigenous-led NGO and U.S. registered non-profit that has advocated for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supported Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures, and political resilience since 1972. Working in partnership with Indigenous communities worldwide, Cultural Survival envisions a future that respects and honours Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.

We support Cultural Survival to provide support to Indigenous organisations and youth in Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Ecuador and Colombia.

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LDNHR is dedicated to meticulously recording casualties of human rights violations across Sudan, with a historical and ongoing focus on Darfur. This casualty recording serves as a crucial pillar in DNHR’s efforts to document abuses, seek justice, and advocate for human rights. DNHR works to uphold accountability, support victims, and promote justice, ensuring that human rights violations are not only documented but also addressed through legal and advocacy efforts. This methodology helps protect victims’ rights while fostering conditions for sustainable peace and justice.

We support DNHR to monitor, document and report on human rights violations in Sudan.

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Founded in 2005, DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) is a regional non-governmental organisation that seeks to strengthen the work of human rights defenders (HRDs) by reducing their vulnerability to risks of persecution and enhancing their capacity to effectively defend human rights. DefendDefenders hosts AfricanDefenders, a Pan African network of five sub-regional organisations dedicated to the protection of HRDs across Africa. DefendDefenders promotes the safety, security and wellbeing of HRDs through protection, security management, capacity building, technology development and evidence-based advocacy.

We support DefendDefenders to strengthen protections for HRDs in Burkina Faso and Sudan.

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HURIDOCS is a Geneva-based NGO that helps human rights groups gather, organise and use information to create positive change in the world. Since 1982, HURIDOCS has developed methodologies and tools for documenting, managing and analysing collections of evidence, law and research. Uwazi, its flagship open-source tool, is used by more than 300 human rights organisations to secure justice and accountability by monitoring and tracking violations, managing cases, preserving collective memory, and making human rights information more accessible.

We support HURIDOCS to work with human rights organisations on strategies and tools for gathering and storing their data and information.

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Human Rights Watch is an independent organisation that investigates and reports on abuses happening all over of the world. They work to protect those most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. They direct their advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. They partner with organisations across the globe to protect embattled activists, to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.

We support Human Rights Watch’s international justice, women’s rights and technology work.

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LEF, a program hosted by the Fund for Global Human Rights, supports grassroots organisations ensuring people can know, use, and shape the law to fight injustice. Since 2021, LEF has awarded $10.8 million to 252 organizations in 64 countries through flexible, long-term funding and participatory grant making. Beyond grants, LEF fosters peer learning, knowledge exchange, and capacity-building to strengthen legal empowerment strategies. It also amplifies grassroots voices, connecting local struggles with global policy spaces to drive systemic change. By shifting power to those most affected by injustice, LEF ensures communities can use the law as a tool for justice and accountability.

We support LEF in offering long-term core funding to grassroots activists and organisations who are supporting their communities to tackle systemic injustices and advocating for expanded protections under the law.

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The Mädchenhaus Zürich is a crisis intervention centre for girls and young women affected by domestic violence. We provide them with a place to live and support with school and legal issues, as well as support in their personal development process. The girls' shelter is unique in Switzerland as an anonymous place of residence for girls and young women.

We support the girls' refuge with the renovation of the new anonymous flat as well as the necessary infrastructure in the house itself.

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The Southern Africa Trust works to strengthen the voice and agency of impoverished and marginalised people. The Trust engages with diverse civic formations, and other non-state actors and states at national and regional levels to ensure the voices of the poor influence policies aimed at ending poverty and inequality. Through strategic advocacy, convenings, partnerships, and policy dialogues, the Trust is dedicated to fostering inclusive and equitable development across the region. The goal is to experience a region where all people live empowered and fulfilled lives.

We support the Southern Africa Trust to strengthen Southern African civic formations for human rights and social justice.

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ZimRights is Zimbabwe’s largest grassroots human rights movement, with over 250,000 members nationwide. It works to advance human rights through eight key action areas: Elections and Democracy, Media and Advocacy, Human Rights Monitoring and Response, Mobilization, Women and Human Rights, Youth, Peacebuilding, and Civic Education. ZimRights envisions a society where communities take the lead in creating and sustaining a culture of human rights.

We support ZimRights to empower grassroots communities to become effective champions of human rights in Zimbabwe.

VL is an independent think tank for Swiss agriculture. It is a small, agile organisation that advocates for agricultural reform and works with over 30 partners, including political parties, to create a movement for change in agriculture.

We support VL to develop knowledge about the role of women in agriculture, collect empirical data, discuss women's needs, and identify areas for action, addressing socio-political barriers to foster a more equitable and inclusive agricultural sector.

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Msichana Initiative is a young women-led organisation working to advance gender equality by advocating for girls’ right to education and contributing to creating a society where the rights of girls are safeguarded, and girls enjoy the recognition and dignity they deserve. MI's niche is in working with girls and young women (10-25) directly.

IMS Foundation is partnering with Msichana Initiative to: Empower adolescent girls and young women to organize and establish safe spaces; hold institutions, communities, and the government accountable for addressing critical issues affecting young women in Tanzania; Foster community discussions that explore self-perception and challenge harmful stereotypes that undermine their power and leadership.

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TAWLA is a women lawyers’ association founded in 1989 to advocate for gender equality, the promotion of human dignity, and gender justice through policy, legal, and institutional reforms, community action, and media engagement.

We support TAWLA to address the challenges women in rural Tanzania face in securing land and property rights.

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SIHA is an indigenous, feminist network dedicated to advancing gender justice across Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Somali Region, as well as Djibouti and Eritrea. SIHA was established in 1995 by a coalition of women’s rights activists wanting to strengthen the capacities of the WROs that address women’s subordination and examine violence against women and girls (VAWG). SIHA’s purpose is to ensure that women and girls in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA) live in a peaceful, just environment where they can exercise their human rights. To transform this vision into reality, SIHA aims to unlock the potential of feminist women’s rights movements in the region by strengthening and supporting collective action for social and political change.

We support SIHA to strengthen the resilience and protection of feminist movements in the GHoA and equip them to better advance access to justice and end VAWG in conflict and post-conflict contexts across the region. We are also supporting them to monitor, document, and report human rights violations against women and girls in Sudan, especially Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) as well as enhanced emergency support for feminist groups, including response rooms, to prevent and respond to SGBV, and CRSV.

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GL is a leading women’s rights organisation committed to an inclusive, equal, and just society in which women and girls in all their diversities exercise their voice and choice in accordance with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development and related regional, continental, and global instruments.

We support Gender Links in 10 municipalities in Limpopo, Gauteng, Western Cape, and Northern Cape to implement the Sunrise Campaign. The campaign supports survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) to reclaim their agency and experience a marked reduction in GBV through enhanced economic opportunities and outcomes linked to the economic development plans of local authorities.

Raising Voices is a Uganda-based feminist organization working towards the prevention of VAW (Violence Against Women) and VAC (Violence Against Children) by addressing power relations among women and men, and boys and girls. Raising Voices’ work has created an impact in communities and schools that it works with and made significant contributions towards a healthy violence prevention ecosystem in general and VAW prevention in particular. Raising Voices developed the SASA! approach, which has proven effective in preventing VAW, and now has a global reach and has been adapted to various settings and contexts, including major influence in over 60 organizations and 37 countries.

We support Raising Voices to scale the feminist SASATogether! approach in Burkina Faso and Mali through a consortium that includes four local women’s rights organizations and a learning partner. The project focuses on fostering new social norms that support equitable power relations and reduce the acceptability and normalization of VAW.

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Sonke Gender Justice – founded in 2006 - is a gender justice organisation that arose from a shared understanding that violence against women and girls constitutes one of the gravest and most pervasive human rights violations, and that gender-based violence undermines South Africa’s progressive democracy in far-reaching ways. Sonke was established with a firm conviction that men and boys have a critical role to play in ending violence, transforming gender roles, and ultimately being part of the solution in achieving gender justice.

We support Sonke Gender Justice to contribute to the realization of human rights, gender equality, and health equity in the response to and prevention of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF), and the spread of HIV and AIDS. The project aims to build empowered local communities who actively participate in addressing social issues that directly or indirectly affect them within the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces in South Africa.

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AWDF’s mission is to resource, strengthen, and uphold African women’s rights and feminist organisations and movements that strive for gender justice and social transformation. They support local, national, and regional women’s organisations working towards the empowerment of African women and the promotion and realization of their rights. AWDF supports the initiatives of African women who may not have access to mainstream funding due to capacity, language, location, and marginalization.

We support AWDF to resource grassroots organizations that advance gender justice and women’s rights in Lusophone and Francophone countries.

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UAF-Africa is a pan-African feminist, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists, African Women Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), and their organizations. They support AWHRDs in their actions before, during, and after crises.

We support UAF-Africa to support Pan-African Women Human Rights Defenders through rapid response grant-making.

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Medica Mondiale is a German-based feminist women’s rights organization that collaborates with local, female-led partners to support women and girls in war and crisis zones who have survived sexualized wartime violence. Additionally, they advocate at the political level to uphold women’s rights and raise awareness of the societal impact of sexualized violence. We support Medica Mondiale to strengthen resilient women’s rights organizations and build powerful networks in the Great Lakes region in Africa.

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Helvetas is an independent Swiss development organisation operating in over 40 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Their vision is a just world where all people can shape their own future with dignity and security, while using natural resources sustainably. Together with local partners, Helvetas addresses global challenges at multiple levels: through on-the-ground projects, expert advisory services, and advocacy for policies that benefit marginalised communities. By adopting a multi-stakeholder approach, they bring together civil society, governments, and the private sector to drive lasting change.

We support Helvetas in Madagascar and Tanzania by strengthening women’s economic empowerment and enhancing their resilience, while simultaneously contributing to nature conservation and restoration. Recognising the strong connection between these objectives and access to land, the initiatives also explore ways to improve women’s access to land and other vital resources.

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HEKS/EPER supports projects in Switzerland and worldwide to combat poverty and injustice and advocates for a life in dignity for all people. Their work focuses on four priority areas: climate justice, the right to land and food, flight and migration, and inclusion. HEKS/EPER provides humanitarian assistance to those affected by natural disasters and armed conflicts worldwide. In Switzerland, HEKS/EPER’s programmes champion the rights and well-being of refugees and socially marginalised communities.

In the cantons of St. Gallen, Thurgau and Appenzell AR/IR, we support HEKS/EPER to enhance social cohesion and the inclusion of disadvantaged groups by providing legal support to asylum seekers and vulnerable communities, and advocating for equal opportunities, irrespective of culture, religion, social status and gender.

In Niger and the DR Congo, we support HEKS/EPER to improve sustainable agriculture and farmers’ livelihoods by securing fair access to land and resources, supporting profitable crop and livestock production, and strengthening resilience to crises such as droughts and armed conflicts. In Colombia, we support HEKS/EPER to promote lasting peace by promoting sustainable production systems as viable economic alternatives to illegal coca cultivation, and to improve local natural resource management and biodiversity.

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Smiling Gecko supports underprivileged people in rural Cambodia with a holistic approach, focusing on providing high-quality education and vocational training for children and young adults. At the heart of its Educational Campus are a school and kindergarten, where more than 500 children, starting from the age of three, receive bilingual education in Khmer and English. The campus also hosts vocational training centers, specialising in craftsmanship and agriculture, and providing opportunities for around 400 staff members and trainees.

We support Smiling Gecko in providing quality education for children, including the implementation of a health and nutrition programme, as well as training teachers and apprentices.

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SWISSAID is an independent organisation for development cooperation free from denominational and political affiliations. Its mission is to address the global food crisis by fostering fair and sustainable solutions, empowering women, particularly in agriculture, and eliminating hunger. To achieve this, SWISSAID is dedicated to promoting an ecological shift in agriculture. Its approach supports people in developing countries in producing and marketing their goods while conserving resources to enhance biodiversity and contribute to the fight against climate change.

We support SWISSAID in empowering women and driving positive behavioural change among men and boys in Colombia, Ecuador, and Niger to promote a life free from violence and build a more equitable society. Our support also helps women and youth improve their livelihoods, well-being, and access to healthy food in the Páramos of the Andes and the Wadis of the Niger River by promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of vital ecosystems.

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Swisscontact is an independent, non-profit development organisation established in 1959 by representatives of the Swiss private sector and civil society. It focuses on private sector-led, sustainable economic development and improved quality in developing and emerging countries, with an emphasis on skills development and business competitiveness.

In Niger, we support Swisscontact to strengthen entrepreneurship and self-employment for disadvantaged young women and men in Niger through vocational training, strengthening cooperation in the training sector, and promoting entrepreneurship in the emerging fields of Information and Communication Technology and food processing.

In Tanzania, we support the EmpowerHER project, which strengthens the professional and social development of young mothers in Tanzania by providing access to entrepreneurial opportunities, financial resources, and private sector networks. The project also offers counselling, life skills, social skills training, and coaching for mothers to support their empowerment. By engaging young mothers and their communities, the project positive attitudes and behaviours toward them, promoting greater social inclusion and economic independence.

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AKIRACHIX – Akira Chix is a women-led organization working to increase young women’s agency to participate and thrive in the traditionally male-dominated tech industry. AkiraChix’s core program, codeHive, is a one-year residential training program that provides young women from underserved communities in East Africa with foundational hands-on technical skills while also building their interpersonal, critical, creative, and leadership skills. AkiraChix connects its students and graduates with internships and jobs that increase their income and advance their career trajectories in the tech sector. AkiraChix is a leading source for African female technology talent for the world – from junior developers to tech CEOs. IMS Foundation is partnering with Akirachix to support its signature Code Hive Program.

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LTAWAH is an association of women architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, and scientists committed to enhancing social justice by mobilizing women to spearhead building adequate shelter for marginalized communities in Tanzania. TAWAH deploys innovative techniques to improve living conditions and build capacity for income generation among marginalized groups in Tanzania. TAWAH is a growing organization with potential to transform the construction sector and change the fortunes for many unemployed young rural women and households in Tanzania. TAWAH runs a unique Resource and Vocational Center tapping into unexploited markets by equipping women with construction skills that are highly demanded in an already thriving real estate sector in Tanzania and East Africa. IMS Foundation is partnering with TAWAH to support the growth and scale of the impact of TAWAH Resource and Vocational Center.

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LACT partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture. Working across Brazil, Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, ACT works with frontline communities of Amazonia to protect their homelands and ways of life.

We support ACT’s Lasting Protections programme in Colombia, which focuses on preserving intact rainforests and isolated peoples in Colombia, working to protect some of the most biodiverse yet threatened forests of this part of the Amazon Basin.

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AMLD is located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil working on the protection of the habitat of the critically endangered Golden Lion Tamarin monkey. AMLD has a scientific, social and educational purpose and its mission is to promote the conservation of the Atlantic Forest in the coastal lowlands of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

We support AMLD in expanding the habitat of the Golden Lion Tamarin by protecting biodiversity and restoration of the Fazenda Perdida Property in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil.

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BMF is dedicated to protecting the last primordial forests in Malaysia and Europe. Founded in 1992 by the Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser, BMF works with local communities to ensure its work aligns with their needs.

Currently, BMF is expanding their tree nursery project, using local seeds to grow rare and essential tree species for replanting in degraded by logging. This initiative supports forest regeneration and biodiversity restoration. BMF is also actively engaged in establishing biospheres where logging is completely prohibited.

We support Bruno Manser Fonds in providing legal support to Penan – an indigenous group in Borneo – in their fight against the logging companies that encroach on their customary land rights.

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Commonland supports local organisations to restore degraded landscapes and regenerate the Earth by strengthening their work, sparking collaboration, and sharing best practices. With a holistic approach to landscape restoration, Commonland believes anyone can work with nature and their local community to restore a landscape at scale and aims to create a brighter future on planet earth.

LWe support Commonland and its partners in restoring landscapes in Africa through the Landscape Leadership Program (LLP) in the KAZA region. Our support helps build local capacity, strengthen partnerships, and expand restoration efforts.

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FreeTheBees is a Swiss organisation dedicated to the protection of honeybees, independent of beekeeping interests. It raises awareness and provides education to promote sustainable beekeeping and the survival of wild honeybee populations. Through training, conferences, and public outreach, FreeTheBees informs beekeepers, policymakers, and the public about the threats facing honeybees. The project promotes responsible and nature-aligned beekeeping, shifting the focus from honey production to pollination and biodiversity preservation.

We support FreeTheBees in strengthening the resilience of honeybee populations, ensuring their adaptability to a changing environment.

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Fundación Jocotoco is an Ecuadorian conservation NGO working to conserve Ecuador’s biodiversity, by protecting threatened species and ecosystems through scientific evidence and local leadership. Jocotoco manages 16 reserves and implements five regional holistic landscape conservation and restoration programmes across Ecuador, from the High Andes and Chocó lowlands to the Amazon and Galapagos. 

We support Jocotoco’s Podocarpus El Condor Program, which focuses on protecting and restoring the Tapichalaca Reserve, supporting the Palanda Reserve and the Podocarpus and Yacuri National Parks, and working with local communities to develop sustainable livelihoods, particularly through the assessment and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices.

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GCBR is a South African non-profit working to restore and manage the natural ecosystems within their 3.2-million-hectare domain in the Cape Floral region. GCBR is dedicated to the conservation of the region’s rich biodiversity, and the socio-economic development and wellbeing of its people, aiming to be a catalyst for change towards solving one of our greatest challenges: the disconnect between people and nature.

We support GCBR in restoring indigenous biodiversity by improving the resilience of degraded ecosystems across 2000 hectares of the GCBR region and engaging and training youth from the community.

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IUCN Netherlands has managed the Land Acquisition Fund for over 20 years, enabling carefully selected nature organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America to purchase and protect nature. Ownership and responsibility for nature reserves are entrusted to local nature organisations, ensuring long-term stewardship and sustainability.

We support IUCN Netherlands to boost the impact of the Land Acquisition Fund and expand strategic conservation areas under private protection by local organisations.

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The Jane Goodall Institute is a global community-centred conservation organisation that advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall by protecting chimpanzees and inspiring people to conserve the natural world. Their programmes support the intersection of animals, people, and the environment, by addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental inequity.

We support the Jane Goodall Institute in advancing the community-led conservation model Tacare and associated mapping solutions to build local capacity to achieve conservation targets in Western Tanzania and Eastern DRC.

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Living Lands is a South African non-profit working on the conservation and restoration of the Baviaanskloof and Langkloof landscapes. Their work spans multiple disciplines, adapting to the needs of local communities. This includes providing practical support to farmers, implementing large-scale ecological rehabilitation projects, and exploring new agricultural and ecological opportunities with land owners.

We support Living Lands in the Baviaanskloof Hartland Conservancy, helping to scale up rehabilitation efforts and improve the management of Wild Honeybush and water catchments in the Langkloof.

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myclimate is a leading organisation committed to effective climate protection and sustainable development through education, consulting, and impactful climate protection projects.

We support myclimate's Skills for Future programme, which aims to strengthen climate literacy and action in the professional vocational education system in Switzerland. Its mission is to equip apprentices, teachers, vocational training centers and professional associations with the knowledge and skills to actively contribute to climate action and to ensure that sustainability becomes an integral part of both education and professional development.

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Natural Justice is a South African non-profit organisation specialising in human rights and environmental law in Africa. Committed to social and environmental justice, Natural Justice leverage legal expertise to empower communities to participate in decisions that affect their land, culture and environment.

We support Natural Justice in advancing their Safeguarding Communities for Sustainable Futures programme, which empowers indigenous and local communities in Africa to better defend their rights through legal strategies, community legal empowerment, and influencing change through research, dialogue, coalition-building, policy development and advocacy.

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REGUA is a Brazilian non-profit organisation working to protecting and restoring the Guapiaçu watershed in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Their work includes restoring degraded land, conducting research, and re-introducing locally extinct species such as the Tapir. REGUA aligns forest conservation with community needs by providing local employment and running a comprehensive environmental education programme.

We support REGUA in expanding the reserve and strengthening its community education and research programmes.

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TMA is an Ecuadorian non-profit working on community-based conservation of the biodiversity and watersheds of the Pacific Forest of Ecuador through education, reforestation, protection, and agroforestry. Located in the heart of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Biodiversity Hotspot, TMA is implementing the Capuchin Corridor program across the Jama Coaque reserve and Cerro Pata de Pájaro bosque protector, covering an area of more than 14.000 hectares.

We support TMA in expanding reserves, supporting the cacao agroforestry programme, and community education through their Capuchin Corridor programme.

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EDUCA SWISS coaches' candidates that could not profit (at the time) from the regular access to education, with realizable education projects by means of education loans.  The education loans enable training or further education and thus create concrete opportunities and prospects. After completing the training and successfully starting a career, the education loans are repaid to the education fund. The available funds can thus be used again and reproduce the effect several times over. 

We support EDUCA SWISS to enable them to provide loans and support and coach female candidates with an history of domestic violence, broken families or extra-familiar upbringing and those with refugee or migrant backgrounds. All candidates who have been coached by EDUCA SWISS have a financial need that prevents them to start education and training.

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Peace Parks is a South African organisation working on the management of transboundary landscapes across the Africa, including the management of protected areas and ecological corridors. Their dream is to re-establish, renew and preserve large functional ecosystems that transcend man-made boundaries – thereby protecting and regenerating natural and cultural heritage vital to enabling and sustaining a harmonious future for humankind and the natural world.

We support Peace Parks in Malawi, with the implementation of the Nyika-Vwaza Management Trust program.

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We are providing funding to the University of Zurich to explore issues of violence against women and their systematic discrimination. Through this 10 years partnership, the University will establish a Center on Evolutionary Anthropology and the Study of Religion and Women in Society and appoint two professors in the fields of evolutionary anthropology and science of religion. The first endowed chair will focus on subjects around evolutionary cultural development and gender roles and will be located within the Faculty of Science. The second professorship, based at the Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion, will address the role of religions in the context of discrimination and violence against women.

The cooperation between anthropology and science of religion is also at the heart of the planned center. This will be interdisciplinary in nature, aiming to foster international exchange, namely with universities in Southern African nations and other countries of the Global South.