Changing minds, saving lives and building resilience through values based education for all

•Please also consider our reporting to our specific pledge SP 320005 on humanitarian education.

•In a strong collaboration with IFRC, Switzerland enhances further national societies to engage themselves in value-based education by guiding the next generation towards humanitarian values and principles. With the aim through promoting and implementing value-based education to mitigate the harmful effects of emergencies and create a culture of non-violence as well as a peaceful environment. Here communities and their citizens contribute to help those in need by strengthening individual and local resilience. Moreover, value-based education aims at building greater community engagement and overall cohesion to ensure human dignity for all. Developing both the skill and will to care for and help others is at the very heart of humanitarianism.
As “Project Humanity” is for the IFRC one of the core instrument and methodology for implementing the humanitarian principles in formal and non-formal education systems, Switzerland and IFRC support between 2017 – 2019 further national societies in the implementation of “Project Humanity”. A common strategy is in completion.

•The international outreach and implementation “Project Humanity” is accompanied by an advisory group, in which SRC and ICRC are important partners.

•Further, SRC participated as an important partner in international workshops to develop an extracurricular version of “Project Humanity” for further national societies.