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The past year was extremely rich in challenges, and equally rich in solidarity and compassion. SOS Children's Villages Switzerland is taking the start of the new year as an opportunity to look back on 2020: the difficult times, but also the successes and beautiful moments.

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Join HELVETAS for their review in 12 snapshots of an extraordinary year.

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Women for Peace demand a generous admission of desperate people who are stuck in the camps. Moreover, they demand legal escape routes to Europe for people fleeing from war zones.

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2020 was an exciting, instructive and promising year for the KOFF Platform despite the pandemic. We launched a broad strategy process and defined the future priorities of the platform.

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With the three strategic emphases of strengthening internal networks, establishing joint learning processes, and enhancing political relevance, KOFF highlights the development potential of the KOFF platform and its impact logic for the period 2021-2024. 

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On the Christmas tree in the garden of the Mission House, wishes from children from South Sudan and Switzerland are hanging. This symbolic action brings Mission 21's 2020 campaign to a close, but the work in South Sudan continues and the need remains great.

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Power relations, gender norms and unequal rights shape the migration choices and experiences of women and men. Gender therefore needs to be considered in all aspects of our work related to migration and forced displacement. To shed some light on the topic, the SDC Network on Migration and Gender decided to launch a call for contribution on gender, migration and forced displacement. Numerous articles and resources have reached us demonstrating the vivid interest of network members and friends in the issue. KOFF also submitted an article to the Gender & Migration dossier, which is now published online.

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An exceptional and challenging year is coming to an end. Covid19 has strongly influenced the work in our worldwide projects. We also had to cancel the Kitchen Battle, our most important charity event. This is a great pity and is now becoming noticeable: We are missing 100'000.- francs of income. And more than 100 people who are registering as new members at the Kitchen Battle. Therefore we ask you today: Become a member of Cuisine sans frontières. Or support us with a donation. With your contribution, you can support the establishment of a women's café in the refugee camp Burj El Barajneh in Lebanon or our gastronomy school El Fogon on the Rio Napo in Ecuador.

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Keeping track of our project activities used to entail filling out paper questionnaires and formats in the field, and then painstakingly transferring the data into a computer back at the office. Digital systems have transformed the way that we work. They offer opportunities to increase data accuracy, check progress, produce solid evidence – and save time. But what’s the best way to put in place such systems and what are the concrete gains? This blog explores how HELVETAS is using digital tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their work in Asia.

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This year, the campaign "16 Days against Violence against Women*" will focus on motherhood and violence. Mothers are diverse - politically committed, working, single parents, women-loving / lesbian / queer, with disabilities, chronic illnesses, migration background or a history of flight. But not every woman* can or wants to be a mother. The days of action (25.11.-10.12.) make us aware that motherhood is manifold. Let us stand up together and strongly against violence against women*.

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