It has become essential to be able to cope with repeated shocks. This requires us to adapt our media responses and approaches. Basic support to the media is no longer sufficient. We need to enhance their expertise to address urgent concerns such as climate change, international justice, and misinformation in a way that is rigorous and relevant to audiences.
Caroline Vuillemin - General Director
The vital role of journalism is most evident in major crises. Reliable, comprehensive, independent and pluralistic information can not only rekindle dialogue and facilitate conflict resolution, it can serve as a lifeline to the victims of disasters or human rights violations and give them a voice.
Tony Burgener - Chairman of the Board
Highlights 2022
Media support program launched in Ukraine
245 employees worldwide
Record audience in CAR: 72% of the population listen to us
9 studies conducted in collaboration with several renowned universities
Over 150 media partners in the Sahel
Increase in visits to JusticeInfo.net of +56%
Key numbers
12
12
Media operations in 12 countries, on 3 continents11916
11916
Hours of audio programmes238
238
Hours of video programmes10706
10706
Articles on the Web1315748
1315748
Users of our websites747290
747290
Followers on Facebook and Twitter519
519
Medias supported1427
1427
People trainedOur Operations in 2022
Our Impact
We like Radio Ndeke Luka very much because it changes our way of seeing things. It opens our eyes on misinformation and how we have to verify information before we act. Awareness must continue.
Testimony gathered in the Central African Republic during a focus group organized in the village of Voudambala, near the town of Mbaiki, with a group of 12 young women aged between 15 and 29 years old.
When you arrive in a place, you are disoriented. On the radio, very important information is given. It is thanks to Studio Yafa that I learned there was a camp in such and such a place and that I could go there. Otherwise I would have just wandered around the town.
Abdoul Ouedraogo (not his real name), displaced Burkinabe.
Project expenditure
| 2022 projects | in CHF |
|---|---|
| CAR | 2 526 053 |
| Mali | 1 936 064 |
| Niger | 1 622 367 |
| Headquarters | 1 556 068 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 360 285 |
| DRC | 501 935 |
| Ukraine | 488 423 |
| Transitional Justice | 420 161 |
| Madagascar | 405 776 |
| Burundi | 353 764 |
| COVID- 19 | 268 890 |
| Myanmar | 262 370 |
| New projects | 193 118 |
| Tunisia | 181 188 |
| Research | 96 980 |
| MEALS | 78 982 |
| Journalism Trust Initiative | 51 886 |
| Formations Violence et extremisme Afrique de l’Ouest | 51 839 |
| Pakistan | 36 965 |
| Media education | 6 377 |
| TOTAL | 12 399 495 |
Our 2022 Accounts
Operating account of Fondation Hirondelle (in Swiss francs)
| INCOMES | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| Public funding | ||
| Switzerland | ||
| Mandats DDC/Contribution de projet BUCCO | 1 695 823 | 1 832 038 |
| Fonds Suisse Contribution de programme DDC (IP) | 3 175 300 | 2 996 896 |
| Fonds DFAE Suisse | 57 023 | - |
| FEDEVACO | 68 100 | 68 709 |
| Other | ||
| United Nations agencies (UNICEF, UNPD, ...) | 421 802 | 688 752 |
| Denmark (FAMOC) | 267 146 | 139 621 |
| Netherlands | - | 47 250 |
| United Kingdom (DFID, UKCSS) | 55 445 | 243 364 |
| H2H | 35 897 | - |
| Sweden | 1 976 000 | 1 581 830 |
| Czech republic | 81 870 | 168 587 |
| Germany (GIZ) | 179 340 | 6 572 |
| European Union | 2 634 078 | 4 549 345 |
| Centre de crise et de soutien | 257 993 | - |
| United States | 13 766 | - |
| 10 919 583 | 12 322 964 | |
| Private funding | ||
| Switzerland | ||
| Chaîne du Bonheur | 392 046 | 408 351 |
| Loterie Romande | 30 000 | 51 100 |
| RTS Partnership | 75 000 | 75 000 |
| Private Foundations | 312 382 | 253 882 |
| Private Donors | 109 128 | 168 460 |
| Other | ||
| DCAF | - | - |
| Other donors | 449 983 | 1 086 445 |
| 1 368 540 | 2 043 238 | |
| Other products | ||
| Products from services provided | 573 136 | 828 310 |
| 573 136 | 828 310 | |
| TOTAL INCOME | 12 861 258 | 15 194 512 |
| Dont produits libres | 757 264 | 1 071 770 |
| Dont produits affectés | 12 103 994 | 14 122 742 |
| EXPENDITURES | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| Direct project expenditure | ||
| Staff | 6 160 938 | 6 905 149 |
| Operations | 4 193 754 | 5 672 498 |
| Equipment | 488 736 | 464 752 |
| 10 843 427 | 13 042 399 | |
| Administrative expenditure | ||
| Staff | 758 083 | 638 466 |
| Operations | 450 283 | 478 480 |
| Equipment | 18 303 | 31 472 |
| 1 226 669 | 1 148 418 | |
| Fundraising and communication expenditure | ||
| Staff | 251 928 | 246 538 |
| Operations | 75 805 | 68 989 |
| Equipment | 1 666 | 139 |
| 329 399 | 315 666 | |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 12 399 494 | 14 506 483 |
| Operating result | 461 763 | 688 029 |
| Financial results | ||
| Financial income | 440 | 121 |
| Loss on foreign exchange | 9 429 | -184 212 |
| 9 869 | -184 091 | |
| Exceptionnal result | ||
| Exceptionnal Expenditures and Incomes | -10 569 | -13 368 |
| -10 569 | -13 368 | |
| Annual result before allocations | 461 063 | 490 570 |
| Allocations / deductions | ||
| Allocations to equity capital | -461 063 | -490 570 |
| Surplus/(deficit) for the year | - | - |