The first ever National Forum of “Act Development Central Asia” Alliance was successfully held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6-7. The Forum brought together five international development agencies – ICCO (the Netherlands), DanChurchAid (DCA, Denmark), Christian Aid (United Kingdom), Norwegian Church Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid – and more than fifteen non-governmental organisations and microfinance institutions from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. More than 40 representatives of the organisations participated in this historic event. Read more...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominates DanChurchAid for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The nomination is backed by the 10 bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and former Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Uffe Elleman-Jensen Read more...

The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa. Read more...

The Malawian farmers slog away in the dry fields. But that isn’t always enough to provide their families with food. The ELDS program helps the farmers to save money and groundnuts, to secure that they don’t starve. Read more...

Small seeds for an active civil society are starting to grow in the poor Central Asian Republic Kyrgyzstan where children have to work to get an income to the family Read more...

Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to Read more...

The joint ethio-dansih NGO programme in North Wollo started in 1997 and is a collaboration between the three Danish NGO's Save the Children, Danish Red Cross and DanChurchAid and their Ethiopian partners. The purpose was to relieve the food crisis and support agricultural development in North Wollo, a very poor area in Ethiopia. Read more...

Margarita Zobnina, a medical biologist in the nursing profession, joined a women's group in her native Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at a time when women faced not only increasing impoverishment but also loneliness. Read more...

Heavy and incessant rainfall since June 16, 2008 has flooded many areas in the eastern states of Assam, Orissa and West Bengal leaving some 93 people dead and close to 2.7 million people affected. Read more...

There should be plenty of water at the town of Balykchy, where property prices are booming for some. But the faces of the elderly at the local community centre look crestfallen. Read more...

The fight against global poverty is threatened by the increasing prices on basic foods such as rice, maize and wheat. Read more...

Almost all poverty indicators are in regression in Zambia. The situation affects the poor people’s rights, the health system and the food security.

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