Green Cross Switzerland (GCCH) is a foundation subject to Swiss law, established in 1993, with its office in Zurich, Switzerland. It has the support of 50,000 members along with an additional 10,000 donors.

GCCH is part of an international network of 32 Green Cross affiliates present on all continents, including EU countries. The Green Cross International headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mission

GCCH’s activities target, in both a preventive and a responsive manner, the environmental and human dimension of pollution. GCCH attaches great importance to education, local capacity-building, mediation, and involvement of all stakeholders in the design and implementation of solutions, and science-based approaches in the search for solutions.

GCCH implements work through three programmes:

• The Water Programme, which focuses on reducing environmental and health impacts by obsolete pesticides, mercury, lead, uranium, and medical wastes;
• The Legacy Programme, which facilitates reduced impacts by military activities and the demilitarization of weapons of mass destruction, a work for which a team member received the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2013; and
• The Social-Medical-Educational Programme, which addresses the human dimension of pollution, working with communities affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe, the spraying of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war or by pesticide and mercury use.

Green Cross Switzerland in the project

GCCH is providing the current project with support in monitoring and evaluation to allow for an independent assessment of the impact of the activities at regional and national level.

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