TEST What activities aimed at preventing and combating violence are eligible for support?

Financial assistance is available to support projects and ongoing activities that make a tangible contribution to preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, as well as to coordination efforts.

The Confederation pursues three goals in preventing and combatting violence:

• Reduce the causes and risk factors for violent crimes against women and domestic violence so that violence does not occur in the first place.
• Identify and stop threatening or incipient violence at an early stage.
• Reduce the negative consequences of criminal offences and prevent subsequent criminal offences.

The Confederation supports these projects

Public and private non-profit organisations can submit applications for financial aid. The Confederation gives precedence to supporting projects that meet the following requirements:

• The main objective is the prevention of violent crime.
• The project should aim as directly and explicitly as possible at preventing or reducing violence.
• The project meets an actual and proven need.
• The project is national, regional or cross-cantonal in scope and aims to have the broadest possible impact.

Financial aid can support projects to prevent domestic violence regardless of the beneficiaries’ gender identity and expression, sexual orientation or sex characteristics. Such projects may therefore address, for example, domestic violence between men.

By referring to the criteria in the guidelines for financial assistance aimed at preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, you can assess whether your project is likely to receive financial support.

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From idea to project

Discover project ideas

Are you looking for inspiration, or would you like to find out which projects have already received support? In the project directory (de, fr, it), you will find the supported projects listed by theme.

You can find approved applications by year on the ‘All publications relating to financial assistance’ web page.

Have your project idea evaluated

You can have your project idea assessed by a specialist at the FOGE. Feel free to contact us at any time, with no obligation. We will answer your questions and will be happy to help.

Next steps

Contact

Marianne Ochsenbein
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Markus Studer
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Gilles Meylan
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