Adam Dicko is the Director of AJCAD, an organization in Mali that, in partnership with IAMANEH Switzerland, campaigns against female genital cutting (FGC). In this interview, Adam shares how she saved her sisters from undergoing FGC.

Catherine Keita is an obstetric nurse in Mali. The 31-year-old works with our partner organization, RIPOD, to end female genital cutting (FGM).

Digitalization has enriched our lives in many ways. It opens up new avenues for us to communicate and share knowledge. However, there are also downsides that we must not overlook.

Swiss politicians want to make massive cuts to development cooperation funding. This means cutting spending where money is most urgently needed – in support of people in need.

Interview: Co-Managing Director Manuela Di Marco looks back on 22 years at IAMANEH Switzerland on the occasion of her retirement.

From August 2024, Miriam Glass will take over as co-managing director of IAMANEH Switzerland along with Alexandra Nicola, who has already been part of the management team since 2020.

The federal government aims to protect women and girls from female genital cutting and clearly highlights the legal consequences of such practices.

The Annual Report 2023 shows the most important results of our work in the past year.

Ejnxh Pepa from Albania reports in an interview on how our partner organisation CLWG is taking action against violence in the digital space.

Together with the organisation AFAD from Togo, IAMANEH Switzerland has launched an app that provides valuable information about pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period in text, images and sound.

With the "Frauenstark!" festival in Basel and the "Femmes!" festival in Geneva, as well as the anniversary exhibition "Ganz Frau", IAMANEH reached a wide audience in November and December. We'd like to thank everyone who attended and helped out, and take a look back with a few photos.

From December 10th to 15th, we celebrate our 45th anniversary with a photo exhibition at the Kaserne Basel.

It all started with an online team workshop facilitated by a Berlin-based association for power-critical education and counselling. In two 5-hour sessions, they encouraged us to explore the colonial premises that structure our working environment.

Take part in our round table!

The Invisible Threat: Combatting the rise of domestic violence during the pandemic in Albania.

Together with about 120 other Swiss non-governmental organisations, IAMANEH Switzerland supports the Swiss Coaltion for Corporate Justice.

In Dakar suburbs, prevention is a burning issue. For young people, contraceptives are hard to get. But a very dynamic small group of three young men has developed a way for their peers to access contraceptives very discreetly. Their initiative rose to become a broad movement within no time.

In March 2019, Senegal program manager Maja Hürlimann visited the project of our partner organisation Aprofes. She went to take a look at the progress of the project involving the so-called “hommes champions”, and she was deeply impressed.

In the past year, we have worked intensively on the development of our programmes, with an increased focus on the theme of combating violence, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Offender programmes are important elements of an integrated and comprehensive approach in the prevention of and fight against violence against women.

Our team has recently been strengthened by the addition of new colleagues in Ouagadougou and Sarajevo. Their role will be to intensify the joint work with our partner organisations there.

The members of IAMANEH said farewell to Board Member Christoph Keller and welcomed Karin Mader and Osman Besic to the team.

We are pleased to announce that both the operating income and assigned revenue have remained at the same levels as 2014.