World Vision Switzerland

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World Vision Switzerland
logo
legal form Foundation, endowment
founding 3rd November 1982
Seat Dübendorf ZH, Switzerland
motto For children. For the future.
purpose Development cooperation, emergency and disaster relief,
ambassador for children's rights
Chair Walter Huber (President of the Board of Trustees)
Managing directors Christoph of Toggenburg
sales 2017 at CHF 46.7 million
Employees 45
Website www.worldvision.ch

World Vision Switzerland (WVS) is a children's aid organization that focuses on the two areas of humanitarian aid , namely disaster relief and development cooperation .

The organization was founded on November 3, 1982 and has been registered as a foundation in the commercial register since June 18, 2014 . The Swiss Children's Fund is an independent part of the international “World Vision partnership” and is based in Dübendorf . The foundation has 45 full-time employees.

Goals and priorities

The aim of the Children's Fund is always to help people help themselves . The focus of the work is on the children. The regional development projects are created together with the local population, are long-term and are mostly financed by sponsorships. This creates a network of relationships between people in industrialized and developing countries. By supporting the child, the family and the whole village, regions can develop sustainably. In addition to sponsorships, support from public institutions is an important pillar of project finance.

The focus of development cooperation lies in the areas of children's rights + child protection, health + nutrition, education + income, and water + hygiene. World Vision Switzerland carries out sectoral projects in the areas of street children, trauma processing, HIV / AIDS and female circumcision .

Structure and networks

The organization is headed by an honorary, five-member board of trustees President of the board of trustees is Walter Huber.

The organization is a member of World Vision International and participates in the networks of the Swiss Microfinance Platform and the network for education. In addition, the KOFF (Center for Peacebuilding Switzerland) and aidsfocus take part in the participation. Further partnerships exist with the SDC ( Directorate for Development and Cooperation ), the Swiss Federal Office for Migration , the Swiss Alliance against Hunger, the Network for International Cooperation and Development Policy, the FIZ (specialist agency for trafficking in women and women’s migration ) , the netzwerk-Kinderrechte Schweiz and cinfo (Center for Information, Advice and Education, Professions in International Cooperation). World Vision Switzerland also works closely with UN organizations such as the World Food Program (WFP) or other public institutions in the projects.

Finances

The organization has the NPO label for Management Excellence and ISO 9001 - certified . Wold Vision Switzerland was awarded first place in an independent transparency study 2009-2011 by the Independent Development Experts Association (IDEAS) and the study concludes: "Still the most informative and most complete reporting of all."

In 2017, the organization financed a total of 80 development projects in 29 countries and provided emergency and disaster aid in the world's crisis regions. The donation volume in 2017 was 46.7 million Swiss francs.

The organization has its annual accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers AG , which certifies that the organization has exemplary transparency compared to the industry. World Vision Switzerland is also a collective member of Transparency International Switzerland .

Sponsorships

The organization finances long-term projects of regional development cooperation through child, village and theme sponsorships. Around 70,000 donors support World Vision Switzerland Funding through sponsorships is more respected among French -speaking countries than among German-speaking Swiss.

In Switzerland, a donation seal is generally not issued by ZEWO to sponsorship organizations that sponsor single children for these sponsorships. ZEWO criticizes the system of sponsorships that “an organization (...) should collect for its projects and not instrumentalize children for marketing reasons and advertise with personal sponsorships”. World Vision Switzerland replies, “The sponsors are informed that their donation will also benefit the family and the entire village community. Zewo is the only certification body in the world that does not accept the World Vision model. ”According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the example of World Vision shows “ that, in principle, organizations that do not have a seal of approval can also earn the trust of donors. ” Structures of trust can apparently be perceived as a functional seal of approval on the donation market.

According to the Tages-Anzeiger , a dispute over the direction within World Vision Switzerland led in 2012, with the main focus on the role of child sponsorship in the future direction, to the resignation of the then CEO Urs Winkler, the head of marketing Marc-André Pradervand and those responsible for the social divisions Media and Public Marketing from World Vision Switzerland. The faction that wanted to concentrate even more on child sponsorships prevailed. World Vision Switzerland replied that the change of the then managing director Urs Winkler had been fixed for a long time and had nothing to do with a dispute about the direction. In addition, it was only about strategy discussions, not a dispute.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry of “World Vision Switzerland Foundation, Children's Fund” in the commercial register.
  2. ↑ Reference to the vision of World Vision Switzerland
  3. ↑ Proof of priorities for World Vision Switzerland (Annual Report 2014, PDF p. 3)
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ [2]
  6. ↑ [3]
  7. ↑ Press release on the 2014 annual figures
  8. ↑ Article Freiburger Nachrichten about World Vision Switzerland regarding independence
  9. ↑ a b c d sk / sda: World Vision Switzerland. News.ch, October 1, 2009, archived from the original on August 31, 2010 ; accessed on August 31, 2010 (German).
  10. ↑ Media release mentioning public institutions as an important pillar of project financing
  11. ↑ Priorities of World Vision Switzerland
  12. ^ Thomas Müller: Selection of international programs. In: Street Children World Report. July 2009, archived from the original on August 30, 2010 ; accessed on August 30, 2010 (German).
  13. ↑ [4]
  14. ↑ Annual Report World Vision Switzerland 2008, p. 9. ( PDF )
  15. ↑ Partners and networks World Vision Switzerland [5]
  16. ↑ Cooperation between World Vision Switzerland and the World Food Program
  17. ↑ Cooperation with other public institutions
  18. ↑ http://www.aidrating.org/downloads/zammlung091212.pdf p. 7.
    The transparency study assesses representative reporting based on the number of projects in an organization and the meaningfulness of the individual project reports. Objectives, working methods on site, costs and effects of the relief organizations are analyzed and evaluated within the framework of the study. This ultimately results in the so-called transparency value.
  19. ↑ Number of projects and countries in 2017 (2017 annual report PDF)
  20. ↑ Donation volume 2014, press release on the annual figures
  21. ↑ Who we are, WVS on August 31, 2011 ( Memento from August 30, 2010 on WebCite )
  22. ↑ http://www.transparency.ch/de/PDF_files/Kollektivverbindungen/Kollektivverbindungen.pdf
  23. ↑ Various sponsorship models in development cooperation
  24. ↑ Reference number of donors World Vision Switzerland
  25. ↑ http://www.nachrichten.ch/detail/441528.htm
  26. ↑ http://www.gfs-zh.ch/?pid=240
  27. ↑ http://www.ref.ch/index.php?id=127&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1449&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=21
  28. ^ Swiss television: World Vision - (December 11, 2007): Questionable child sponsorships.
  29. ↑ Niklaus Nuspliger: Whoever deserves trust: From dealing with donations. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 30, 2007, archived from the original on August 31, 2010 ; Retrieved on August 31, 2010 (German): “World Vision Switzerland's communications officer, countered that the sponsors were informed that their donation would also benefit the family and the entire village community. Zewo is the only certification body in the world that does not accept the World Vision model. The example shows that, in principle, organizations that do not have a seal of approval can earn the trust of donors "
  30. ^ Daniel Foppa "Exodus at World Vision Switzerland." Tages-Anzeiger, May 9, 2012, accessed March 17, 2013
  31. ^ Statement by World Vision Switzerland on reporting in the Tages-Anzeiger