SDC in Pakistan: From Disaster Relief to Sustainable Development Presentation by Ms Sarah Pfister Deputy Director of Cooperation, SDC Pakistan Swiss Cooperation Office Islamabad, Pakistan International Insurance Conference, Karachi: Catastrophe Events - A Challenge for the Insurance Industry
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SDC in Pakistan: From Disaster Relief to Sustainable
Development
Presentation by
Ms Sarah PfisterDeputy Director of Cooperation, SDC Pakistan
Swiss Cooperation Office Islamabad, Pakistan
International Insurance Conference, Karachi: Catastrophe Events - A Challenge for the Insurance Industry
Content
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation - SDC
Flood 2010 in Pakistan
Strategic framework
Disaster Management Cycle
SDC Response to floods 2010 in Pakistan
Towards sustainable development
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The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation - SDC
Part of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs Annual budget of CHF 1.87 billion (2012) 550 Swiss nationals in Switzerland and abroad,
about 1’000 local employees Engages in
• direct operations • supports programmes of multilateral
organizations • finances programmes run by Swiss and
international relief organizations3
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation - SDC
Regional cooperation: bilateral cooperation with countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America
Global Cooperation: Multilateral cooperation with UN system, World Bank. Global programmes in climate change, food security, water and migration
Humanitarian Aid: prevention, emergency aid and survival assistance, reconstruction, and advocacy for the causes of forgotten humanitarian crises
Cooperation with Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): democratic and market economy reforms in partner countries
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SDC in Pakistan
Since 1966 with full-fledged development programme
Humanitarian aid intervention in school reconstruction after Mansehra earthquake 2005
Since 2010: Pakistan Hindukush Programme • Geographic focus on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province
and FATA• Working in two domains
– Rural livelihood– Good governance & Human Rights
• Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as crosscutting themes