Council

Projects

Where we work Africa Asia Latin America Central Asia Middle East List of projects

Where we work

Guatemala

Our work here focuses on agricultural development, disaster prevention and relief aid, human rights and strengthening the legal system.

Sudan

Among other things, our work here includes mine clearance, protecting the civilian population and relief aid in Darfur.

India

Here we work with fighting hunger and poverty, disaster preparedness, democracy, rights and the caste system.

Angola

Our work here focuses on clearing areas of landmines and unexploded ammunition as well as mine risk education.

Congo (DCR)

Our work here focuses on demining, fighting hunger and helping women who are victims of violence.

Ethiopia

Our work here focuses on disaster risk reduction, equal rights for men and women, strengthening civil society and fighting hunger, HIV and AIDS.

Malawi

Our work here focuses on the prevention of HIV and AIDS, food security and women’s rights.

Uganda

Our work here focuses on agriculture, disaster preparedness, combating HIV and AIDS and supporting a democratic development.

Zambia

Our work here focuses on women’s right to participate, fighting poverty, HIV and AIDS, climate change adaption and democracy.

Bangladesh

Our work here focuses on disaster preparedness, climate changes, democracy, women’s rights and protecting migrants.

Burma/Myanmar

Our work here focuses on empowering civil society, development and education, emergency relief aid and supporting refugees.

Cambodia

Our work here includes, among other things, fighting hunger, HIV/AIDS, supporting women’s rights and climate change adaption.

Nepal

Our work here focuses on democracy and rights, disaster preparedness, disaster risk reduction and safe migration.

Pakistan

Our work here focuses on relief aid, health care, medicine and reconstruction following the floods.

Haiti

Here our work focuses on rebuilding schools and helping the rural poor with income generating activities after the violent earthquake in 2010.

Honduras

Our work here focuses on agricultural development, disaster preparedness, climate change adaption, human rights and democracy.

West Bank/Gaza

Our work here focuses on relief aid, women’s rights and improving the Palestinian population’s living conditions.

Kazakhstan

Our work here focuses on supporting the poor that travel from town to town on foot. We establish self-help groups and influence laws and procedures.

Kyrgyzstan

Our work here focuses on supporting poor immigrant families, education for marginalised children and young people and self-help groups for the elderly.

Lebanon

Our work here focuses on clearing cluster bombs, neutralising mines and enabling the population to manage on their own.

Donors


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What we do


	Our Approach Mine Action Hiv and Aids Humanitarian Assistance The Right to Food Political Space What we do © ACT/Paul Jeffrey

About us


	Organisation and Strategy DCA in the ACT Alliance Accounts Quality Assurance Contact us DanChurchAid believes © Mike Kollöffel Henrik Stubkjær, Secretary General "Hunger is an inevitable consequence of poverty. Hunger is the most grotesque example of inequity in the world. DCA is fighting hunger with all of the means we have, both in the short and longer term."

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Organisation and Strategy

DCA in the ACT Alliance

Accounts

Quality Assurance

Council

DanChurchAid is governed by a council comprising 30 members representing important stakeholders around DanChurchAid.

The Council has responsibility for the overall policy, direction and control of the organisation and is thus the supreme governing body of the organisation.

DanChurchAid's board members are appointed by the council.

Council members cf. the statutes:

Council Chairman

Erik Norman Svendsen
Bishop

Chosen by The Church of Denmark Council on Interchurch Relations (§10,2)

Jørgen Skov Sørensen
Head of Secretariat

Chosen by The Diocesan Committee on Interchurch Relations (§10,3)

Diocesan Committee/Funen:
Jens Hebsgaard

Diocesan Committee/Haderslev:
Jørgen Holm
Pastor

Diocesan Committee/Helsingør:
Gethe Jacobsen
Project manager

Diocesan Committee/Copenhagen:
Viggo Haarløv
Consultant

Diocesan Committee/Lolland-Falster:
Inge Lise Johansen

Diocesan Committee/Ribe:
Else Marie Riis Madsen

Diocesan Committee/Roskilde:
Lise Klemmed Lorentzen
Teacher

Diocesan Committee/Viborg:
Karen Smith

Diocesan Committee/Aalborg:
Henning Thomsen
Consultant

Diocesan Committee/Aarhus:
Jens Hede Jensen
Consultant

Chosen by The Danish Missionary Council (§10,4)

Uffe Torm
Head of department

Chosen by The National Council of Churches in Denmark (§10,5)

Holger Lam
Pastor

Jacqueline Ryle
Anthropologist PhD

Deputy Chairman of the Council
Laila Hørby
Midwife

Chosen by and from among employees at DanChurchAid (§10,6)

Senior Policy
Elsebeth Gravgaard
Advisor

Project Manager
Semine Bojsen Træden (board member)

Chosen by and from among Danish partners (§10,7)

Spejderhjælpen (Scout Movement):
Annette Kaalund-Jørgensen
Education consultant

Children in Africa, support group in Denmark:
Karsten Dam
Lecturer

'De grønne pigespejdere' (girl scout movement):
Suzette Frovin
Information Officer

Chosen by and from among DanChurchAid's donors (§10,8)

Edith Aller
Senior lecturer

Birgitte Arendt
BD

Chosen by and from among volunteers working in DanChurchAid’s second-hand shops (§10,9)

Ole Svarre
Teacher

Tove Nielsen
Librarian

Chosen by DanChurchAid’s appeals co-ordinators (§10,10)

Hans Christian Beck-Jensen
Consultant

Astrid Skovgaard
Theological student

Chosen by and from among participants in DanChurchAid’s volunteer programmes abroad and other volunteers (§10,11)

Louise Mortensen
Student

Tea Marie Nielsen
Student Political Science

Chosen by DanChurchAid's member club (§10,12)

Jonas Bak Weisenberg
Pastor

Line Buchholt
Project Manager

Chosen by the Council (§10,13)

Christoffer Rubæk
Student of Political Science

Helle Christiansen
Pastor

Thomas Tufte
Professor

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