Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Impact: Achieve the greatest possible contribution to Swiss international cooperation with the available resources.

Evidence-based policymaking: Prepare findings from scientific research and evaluations for strategic decision-making and integrate them into current political debates and decisions.

Strengthen the strategic relevance and learning function of evaluations: Make evaluations systematically usable for improving future programs and policies, integrate their findings into strategic planning, and foster an institutional learning culture.

We are in regular exchange with (international) experts from science, politics and civil society, including the World Bank, WHO, IDOS, 3ie, Center for Global Development and numerous other actors.

We analyze scientific evidence on the costs and effects of various interventions and transfer these findings into the Swiss and global context. In this way, science-based evidence and arguments become accessible to the political sphere and decision-makers.

The Smart Buys Alliance is an international alliance of government agencies, NGOs and philanthropies to strengthen the most effective interventions in international cooperation.

Coopération Globale coordinates the secretariat of the Smart Buys Alliance and co-founded it.

More information can be found here.

We are financed exclusively through donations and do not offer any paid consulting services.

Donations to Coopération Globale are purely charitable and independent of industry and political interests. Donations have no influence on the content of our work.

Coopération Globale is supported through the coordination of Basil Müller and Pascal Roelcke of the think tank Pour Demain. Pour Demain is financed by foundations such as Mercator and Hasler and — just like Coopération Globale — is politically independent and free from any industrial interests.