Projects

Mafuta

Empowerment of women and young people and peaceful coexistence with elephants in Tanzania.

  • 2026 – 2029
  • Tanzania
  • employment
  • sport & play
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PATH OF PRAGATI

Improve life prospects for disadvantaged children, women, and their communities in India through access to healthcare, WASH, nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods.

  • 2025 – 2028
  • India
  • health
  • sport & play
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Get ready, get healthy, go!

Support access to clean water, sanitation, hygiene and healthy nutrition, as well as quality vocational and entrepreneurship training for young people in Uganda.

  • 2025 – 2028
  • Uganda
  • health
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Peace in Motion

Peacebuilding, education and employment skills for war-affected children and young people from South Sudan.

  • 2024 – 2027
  • South Sudan
  • health
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Green Paths for You(th) and the Climate

Climate-smart agri-entrepreneurship and mental health for disadvantaged young people in Zimbabwe.

  • 2023 – 2026
  • Zimbabwe
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Learning and Growing Together

Crisis resilience and economic opportunities for young people through entrepreneurship and employability training.

  • 2024 – 2026
  • Myanmar
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Girls leading the way!

Sustainable agroforestry and entrepreneurship for a healthy and equal future for girls and young women in Zimbabwe.

  • 2023 – 2026
  • Zimbabwe
  • health
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Learning Power for Futures

Future-oriented secondary education and sustainable energy for young adults in Southern Africa.

  • 2023 – 2026
  • Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi
  • education
  • sport & play
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Football for Life

Promoting language, movement and personality development for children and young people through football in Switzerland.

  • since 2024
  • Switzerland
  • health
  • education
  • sport & play
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Football For All

Empowering disadvantaged children and young people in India and around the world through access to football trainings in rural areas.

  • since 2023
  • international
  • sport & play
  • mandate
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1, 2, 3 WASH!

Improved access to clean water, sanitation, hygiene and healthy nutrition for school children in India.

  • 2023 – 2025
  • India
  • health
  • sport & play
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Level Up!

Education, employment and health promotion for young refugees and disadvantaged youth in Uganda.

  • 2023 – 2026
  • Uganda
  • education
  • employment
  • sport & play
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SUSTAINABLE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Innovative playful education and sustainable food production for secondary school students.

  • 2022 – 2026
  • Cambodia
  • education
  • sport & play
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Move & Improve

Move & Improve fosters early childhood development in India to prevent the transmission of poverty.

  • 2015 – 2026
  • India
  • education
  • sport & play
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HITTING A HOME RUN FOR PEACE

Entrepreneurship training and civic education for disadvantaged children and youth.

  • 2022 – 2025
  • Colombia
  • education
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Moving Youth!

Sustainable (self-)employment through vocational and entrepreneurship training for young people.

  • 2022 – 2025
  • Uganda
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Moving Ahead

Sustainable future prospects through education and entrepreneurship for disadvantaged children and youth in rural India.

  • 2021 – 2023
  • India
  • education
  • employment
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ici. gemeinsam hier.

A support programme for cohesion in Switzerland.

  • since 2021
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • mandate
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People on the Move

Ensure psychosocial health, education and promotion of business skills for war-affected children and young adults from South Sudan.

  • 2021 – 2025
  • Uganda
  • health
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Goals for Peace

Improving psychosocial wellbeing, social cohesion and integration through football.

  • 2020 – 2022
  • Jordan
  • health
  • integration
  • sport & play
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Girls Ahead!

With sustainable agriculture, sports-based activities and education against child marriage in Zimbabwe.

  • 2020 – 2023
  • Zimbabwe
  • health
  • education
  • sport & play
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Sport and Play for Interethnic Dialogue in Sri Lanka

A project to promote relations between Tamils and Singalese in Sri Lanka.

  • 2009 – 2012
  • Sri Lanka
  • integration
  • sport & play
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MovePlus! Feasibility study

A feasibility study to increase the sport and physical activity behaviour of girls and young women in Switzerland.

  • 2020 – 2021
  • Switzerland
  • health
  • integration
  • sport & play
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Young Entrepreneurs for ecological alternatives

Entrepreneurial training for youth for ecological alternatives.

  • 2019 – 2022
  • Myanmar
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Let’s get to Business

Empowering Bangladeshi women through entrepreneurship

  • 2019 – 2021
  • Bangladesh
  • employment
  • sport & play
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A sustainable future through interactive education

A project that opens up professional possibilities.

  • 2018 – 2022
  • Colombia
  • education
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Youth City 2030

A course on volunteer work in sport, and sport for social change.

  • 2018
  • Bahrain
  • sport & play
  • mandate
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Tavolata brings people together

A project, that brings everyone around the table.

  • 2010 – 2019
  • Switzerland
  • integration
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Play-based early childhood development

Interactive workshops on early childhood development provides pedagogical support for teachers.

  • 2017-2018
  • Palestine
  • education
  • sport & play
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Project evaluation on behalf of Fondation Botnar

SA4D evaluates projects that are funded by the Fondation Botnar.

  • 2018 – 2020
  • Switzerland, Netherlands
  • sport & play
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Museums as meeting places

Museums open their doors and and make room for new perspectives.

  • 2018 – 2019
  • Switzerland
  • integration
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Vocational training as a turning point

Young people from difficult circumstances get a second chance through vocational and business training.

  • 2017 – 2021
  • Papua New Guinea
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Women On The Move Uganda

Psychosocial and economical support of refugee women and children in Uganda

  • 2017 – 2020
  • Uganda
  • health
  • sport & play
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Environmental education as a driving force

Playful teaching and environmental education for children

  • 2017 – 2019
  • Zimbabwe
  • education
  • sport & play
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Overcoming Trauma with Sport

Through sport and play, women traumatised by war and violence regain the trust in their own abilities.

  • 2017 – 2019
  • Myanmar
  • health
  • sport & play
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Playful Teaching

Through play based teaching methods, Burmese children who dropped out of school find their way back into everyday school life.

  • 2016 – 2017
  • Myanmar
  • education
  • sport & play
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Sexual Violence Prevention in Kenya

In Nairobi, SA4D teaches children - and their parents and teachers - how to protect themselves from sexual violence.

  • 2016 – 2017
  • Kenya
  • health
  • sport & play
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Young people found companies in Myanmar

SA4D supports young people in Myanmar to found their own company.

  • 2015 – 2018
  • Myanmar
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Self-employed rather than unemployed

Start-up fundings for unemployed young people in Egypt.

  • 2014 – 2017
  • Egypt
  • employment
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National Programme for Integration

Promoting intercultural integration.

  • 2012 – 2020
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • mandate
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A website for new residents

A website provides answers to questions regarding accomodation, school, transport and more.

  • 2013 – 2019
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • mandate
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sportanddev

sportanddev is the most important information centre and communications hub for actors and individuals with an interest in the field of Sport and Development.

  • 2003 – 2023
  • International
  • education
  • integration
  • sport & play
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With Sport against Trauma

Psychosocial support for traumatized women in South Sudan.

  • 2012 – 2016
  • South Sudan
  • health
  • sport & play
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Education for children and young people in Nepal

A holistic educational programme for disadvantaged children and young people in Nepal.

  • 2008 – 2015
  • Nepal
  • education
  • employment
  • sport & play
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Integration through sport in Hungary

A project in Hungary that used sport as a motor for integration.

  • 2013 – 2014
  • Hungary
  • integration
  • sport & play
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Anomie and violence in Nigeria

An empirical field research to investigate the factors making people in Nigeria join armed groups.

  • 2009 – 2011
  • Nigeria
  • integration
  • mandate
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Cultural diversity in sports associations

Guidelines to support sports associations when working with children and young people from migrant backgrounds.

  • 2010 – 2012
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • sport & play
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Young people in Lebanon: a research project

A study on Lebanese young people’s living conditions, risk behaviour, future prospects and values.

  • 2010 – 2011
  • Lebanon
  • health
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Evaluation concept for “Cup of Heroes”

SA4D evaluated the ‘Cup of Heroes’ between 2008 and 2011 South Africa and Namibia.

  • 2008 – 2011
  • South Africa & Namibia
  • integration
  • sport & play
  • mandate
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Integration with film and play in Russia

A film and a computer game to contribute to migrants finding their way better in Russia and being better accepted.

  • 2008 – 2010
  • Russia
  • integration
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Evaluating “Football for Hope”

A monitoring and evaluation system for the “Football for Hope” movement.

  • 2008 – 2009
  • Africa
  • sport & play
  • mandate
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Turkish diaspora in Switzerland

In 2007, SA4D conducted a study on the variety of the Turkish diaspora in Switzerland.

  • 2008 – 2009
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • mandate
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Youth–employer dialogue

Roundtables in Zurich and Biel/Bienne bring together representatives of businesses and young people from a migrant background.

  • 2008 – 2009
  • Switzerland
  • employment
  • integration
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Evaluating integration projects

Evaluation of an integration project implemented by the Spanish Red Cross.

  • 2007 – 2009
  • Spain
  • integration
  • mandate
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Culture of dialogue in Turkey

A project to promote dialogue between cultural and religious groups in Turkish society.

  • 2006 – 2009
  • Switzerland & Turkey
  • integration
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Sport & play for children and young people in Lebanon

With sport and play, SA4D promoted the psychosocial rehabilitation of traumatised children in Beirut.

  • 2007 – 2008
  • Lebanon
  • health
  • sport & play
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Iranian women: Tradition and modernity

A study on the role of Iranian women in the family and the economy.

  • 2006 – 2008
  • Iran
  • employment
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Meeting through movement

How to familiarise people from a migrant background with local sports associations and activities.

  • 2005 – 2008
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • sport & play
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Migration stories

A writing competition for migrants in French-speaking Switzerland.

  • 2006 – 2007
  • Switzerland
  • integration
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Young people in Russia: a research project

A two-year project to give Russian youngsters prospects.

  • 2005 – 2007
  • Russia
  • education
  • employment
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Evaluating the UEFA “HatTrick” programme

In 2006, SA4D carried out an interim evaluation of UEFA′s “HatTrick” Programme.

  • 2006
  • Europe
  • sport & play
  • mandate
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A computer game against prejudice

A youth project for eliminating prejudice against migrants.

  • 2003 – 2005
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • sport & play
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Evaluation of the Campaign «Protect Children in War»

In the summer of 2004, SA4D evaluated the campaign “Protect Children In War”.

  • 2004
  • International
  • sport & play
  • mandate
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Islamic religious education in Swiss schools

Does islamic religious education in Swiss schools foster integration? An evaluation.

  • 2004
  • Switzerland
  • integration
  • mandate
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