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.

DanChurchAid believes

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."

Humanitarian Accountability Partnership

DCA’s Humanitarian Director Lisa Henry is the Vice-Chair of the HAP board. HAP came onto the scene in 2003 to increase humanitarians’ focus on accountability. Simply put, these means making sure that aid agencies are answerable to the people that they are trying to help, and that these people can also have a degree of influence over the aid that’s provided, and are entitled to have their complaints heard when things go wrong.

At DCA we believe that Quality and Accountability initiatives are as vital and important as ever. We know that by participating at the highest level of such initiatives, we can have a much bigger impact on people’s lives than if we tried to do it alone.

Let’s take Haiti as one example. Through its roles in HAP and Sphere, DCA was able to deploy 2 full time staff to Port au Prince to train others in these important standards. This means that humanitarian agencies were reminded that they had a responsibility to follow international standards in food, health, shelter, and water.

The focal points for HAP and Sphere ensured that aid agencies were aware that they had a responsibility to deliver these services in sufficient quantity and quality, and that they were also trained and empowered to do so. This was not only for the projects that DCA supported, but for the entire humanitarian community in Haiti. So if an agency wasn’t delivering enough latrines for a camp population, for example, the Sphere project in Haiti would empower them to do so.

One key outcome of the HAP focal point in Haiti was to uncover the role that camp committees were playing in distribution of aid in the camps – and it wasn’t always positive.

Through encouraging feedback from earthquake affected people, the HAP focal point in Haiti learned that many of these committees were abusing their power. The HAP staff then worked with the agencies and communities to address the issue, and the tool that they developed was subsequently adopted by the UN International Organization for Migration as a standard tool for all its implementing partners.