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."

Procurement by DanChurchAid

Procurement of goods and services is central to DanChurchAid’s main purpose of empowering the world’s poorest in their struggle for a dignified life. In every development project or emergency response operation, procurement of goods and services takes place and DanChurchAid and our partners are responsible for this process.

Procurement is:

“…the complete process of obtaining goods and services from preparation and processing of a requisition through to receipt and approval of the invoice for payment.”

We take this responsibility seriously. In our daily work we strive to manage procurement in the best possible manner and in this way support and strengthen the outcomes of our relief and long-term development interventions.

Sound procurement management benefits the beneficiaries in the countries and regions in which we work, and helps to ensure that the entrusted funds we receive from our various donors are being spent honestly and efficiently.

We ensure this by employing professional staff to administrate clearly defined procurement rules and procedures.

Carrying out procurement

In DanChurchAid we acknowledge that sustainable development has to be based on local knowledge and resources, and we build the capacity of our local partners to help them respond to disasters and to address the root causes of poverty and oppression.

In order to support the local communities and the development of local and regional markets, we always aim at purchasing goods and services locally whenever possible and pertinent.

Today the majority of DanChurchAid’s procurement is decentralized to local procurement officers located at our Regional Offices and with our implementing partners.

The Procurement and Logistics Unit is situated at DanChurchAid headquarters in Copenhagen. First and foremost the staff in the unit offer expert procurement and logistics support to DanChurchAids’s Regional Offices and partners worldwide.

The unit is also responsible for procurement on behalf of DanChurchAid’s Humanitarian Mine Action programmes and relief efforts.