About us

The aims of the SDC Gendernetwork are to promote the implementation of the SDC Gender Equality Policy, to support gender mainstreaming in operational activities, to capitalize SDC gender experience at all levels, and to assure the quality of gender equality mainstreaming at all levels of SDC operations and in its cooperation with partners.

The SDC Gendernetwork is coordinated and animated by the SDC Gender Focal Point. Network members are the thematic gender contact persons of all divisions and sections of the Regional Cooperation and the Global Cooperation Domain; the thematic gender contact persons at the Swiss Cooperation Offices; selected partner organizations and NGOs.

The communication and information flow within the SDC Gendernetwork are granted through regular meetings of the thematic gender contact persons at SDC Headquarters, through electronic communication between the gender contact persons at SDC Headquarters with the gender contact persons at the Swiss Cooperation Office and bi-annual face-to-face meetings with all concerned gender contact persons at SDC Headquarters and in the field as well as selected partners. At given times, SDC Gendernertwork will launch e-discussions. All visitors and participants are invited to contribute at any time in order to animate the exchange of experiences in order to learn from each other and to improve outcomes of the cooperation activities.

The SDC Gendernetwork is one of currently five normative and eleven thematic networks at SDC . As such it has both a normative and a thematic mandate: 1) to develop norms and policies as well as to monitor SDC 's compliance with norms; 2) to provide a platform for gathering and exchanging information as well as capacity building.

If you have any comments or if you want to contribute anything to this website, please contact: