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."

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)

UNOCHA plays a coordinating as well as a funding role for humanitarian actors’ response to humanitarian crises. OCHA manages a pooled fund for immediate and life-saving actions. There are three types of pooled funds: the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), Common Humanitarian Funds (CHFs) and Emergency Response Funds (ERFs). These funds provide assistance for food, water and shelter immediately following a natural disaster; life-saving nutrition and medical care for babies born in refugee camps; and basic life necessities for those struggling to survive in many of the world's forgotten emergencies. These funds come from voluntary contributors - member states as well as the private sector - from more than 120 countries and have so far supported initiatives in more than 70 countries.

The CERF cannot be accessed by NGOs but both the ERF and the CHF area accessible for NGOs – in fact most of the ERF recipients have been NGOs. The funds can be released by the UN Humanitarian coordinator for priorities agreed upon in the country in question. The priorities are organized in two types of appeals: consolidated appeals and flash appeals, where the consolidated appeals are developed on an annual basis in areas in need of humanitarian assistance and the flash appeals are developed following a sudden emergency like a flood or an earth quake.

In Sudan DCA have two projects funded by OCHA - one from the ERF fund and one from the CHF. In combination these funds have added more than USD 230.000 to our partner implementing Food Security projects in Eastern Equatoria – South Sudan.