Publications
Zurich volunteers visiting a school and meeting with students during our school building initiative in collaboration with buildOn. Photo credit: buildOn
Media releases
- Global: Z Zurich Foundation and UNICEF expand global partnership for youth mental health and wellbeing
- Global: Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance to address the growing climate crisis
- Global: Ambitious plans to help two million people cope with climate change and build resilience to natural hazards like floods
- Global: Millions to benefit from an expanded leading program to adapt to climate change
- Ireland: €3 million in Awards Announced for 51 COVID-19 Community Response Projects by Rethink Ireland Innovate Together Fund
- Switzerland: Zurich and the Z Zurich Foundation support the Swiss Ombudsman Office for Children's Rights
- Z Zurich Foundation and UNICEF launch global partnership to promote young people’s mental well-being
- Z Zurich Foundation and UNICEF seek partners to join new Global Coalition for Youth Mental Well-being
- Z Zurich Foundation announces support to UNICEF’s global efforts to help deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable
- Z Zurich Foundation, JA Worldwide & JA Africa announce a partnership to Create Bright, Boundless Futures for African Youth
- Z Zurich Foundation launches new Climate Resilience Program in urban communities worldwide
- Z Zurich Foundation’s campaign helps UNICEF deliver over 2.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable
Addressing flood resilience
- Progress Report Year 4
This report presents progress-to-date as of Year 4 of Phase II of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance - highlighting the impact and change we are seeing as a result of our community engagement, learning, research, and advocacy work.
- Foundations for Change: Using adaptive management to navigate uncertainty
This report presents lessons from Year 3 of Phase II of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance work, focusing on how the Alliance structure and culture have allowed us to adaptively manage to ensure continued focus on flood resilience and progress toward our goals, while also addressing COVID-19 needs and concerns.
- At What Cost
How chronic gaps in adaptation finance expose the world's poorest people to climate chaos.
- Foundations for Change - Lessons from Year 2
In this report, the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance members review the progress made towards the Alliance objectives over the course of Year 2, where they stand relative to their goals, and what they have learned about building flood and multi-hazard resilience as a result of grappling with the COVID-19 crisis.
- Closing the Water Window
Over the course of 2016-19 to accelerate the impact of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance’s work the Z Zurich Foundation invested USD 10 million through the Global Resilience Partnership’s Water Window Challenge.