The Swiss Cooperation Strategy Bosnia
and Herzegovina 2013-2016, in the frames of which Switzerland is providing its
development support to BiH, is organized along three main domains of
intervention: 1. Local Governance and Municipal Service, 2. Health and 3. and
Economy and Employment. These domains of intervention include a number of
projects aiming at reaching the over-arching goal of the Strategy: to
contribute to the transition of BiH towards a socially inclusive market economy
and a decentralized democratic political system, with the longer-term
perspective of European integration.
Gender equality, together with good
governance, is a cross-cutting theme in Swiss supported programmes worldwide,
including Bosnia and Herzegovina. Swiss Cooperation therefore continues to
integrate gender as cross-cutting issue in the identification, planning, and
implementation processes of its programmes and projects, as well as monitoring
and evaluation. Gender equality is actively mainstreamed throughout all domains
supported in the frame of the present Cooperation Strategy, in accordance with
the national gender action plan and in close cooperation with the entity-level
gender centres.
The Embassy of Switzerland in BiH is
implementing the Cooperation Strategy and is doing so by engaging partner
organizations and institutions in BiH, both local and international. These
implementing partners that carry out the projects and programmes funded by
Switzerland have to adhere to the basic principles gender equality mainstreaming
and they have to make sure that gender equality as a principle is not only
included in the projects and programmes but is also reflected the reporting.
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