List of DanChurchAid partners:
Evangelical Lutheran Development Service
Evangelical Lutheran Development Service (ELDS) works in all of the three regions of Malawi and is well-established and respected in the local communities. As with the other partners within the food security programme, DanChurchAid supports ELDS in development activities with an integrated HIV/AIDS component aimed at improving the food security situation for smallholder farmers in rural areas. ELDS also works with relief activities.
Churches Action in Relief and Development
Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD) is a well-established church-based organisation with 19 Protestant member churches. It maintains good working relations and cooperation with district assemblies and NGOs represented in the organization’s impact areas in the Southern Districts of Malawi. DanChurchAid supports CARD’s development activities which aim at improving the food security situation for smallholder farmers in rural areas. HIV/AIDS is an integrated component of the development work. CARD also works with relief activities and has been supported by DanChurchAid since the 1980s.
Christian Service Committee
Christian Service Committee (CSC) is a well-known national broadly based church NGO and DanChurchAid's oldest partner in Malawi. CSC's role within DanChurchAid's food security programme is development activities with an integrated HIV/AIDS component aimed at improving the food security situation for smallholder farmers in rural areas. The organisation mainly focuses on families affected by HIV/AIDS. CSC trains farmers in modern methods of processing and utilizing different food items and promotes the diversification of food crop and livestock production as well as sustainable natural resource management.
Christian Health Association of Malawi
Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) is an umbrella organisation, which aims at promoting and coordinating the health services provided by 167 member hospitals and health clinics owned by the Protestant and Catholic Church. The member units of CHAM account for approx. 40 per cent of all health institutions in Malawi.
Food security, HIV/AIDS and nutrition are all integrated components of CHAM’s health work. Within the area of food security, CHAM trains vulnerable rural families in the cultivation of crops, nutrition, sustainable farming and prevention of HIV/AIDS. The organisation also intends to strengthen HIV/AIDS care and support services and improve the nutrition status through home gardening.
CCAP Synod of Livingstonia
The Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia runs the largest local NGO in the Northern Region. DanChurchAid has supported the synod since 2002. CCAP facilitates and implements sustainable church and community based development programmes, and rights and social justice have become important issues in CCAP’s work. Within the area of food security, CCAP trains farmers from the poorest households in amongst other things the use of low cost sustainable agricultural technologies and food processing.
ERDP - Eagles Relief and Development Programme
Eagles Relief and Development Programme (ERDP) was founded in 2002 as a response to the food crisis in Malawi. ERDP works to strengthen poor local communities in the rural areas and give them a possibility to get their basic rights fulfilled. The organisation is not working with emergency activities only but also food security and HIV/AIDS. The emergency work is mainly carried out in Chikwawa, which is one of the most vulnerable areas of the country and most heavily hit by food insecurity, HIV/AIDS, poverty, drought and flooding, illiteracy etc. ERDP focuses on the needs of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups such as children, elderly, chronically ill, orphans, marginalised widows and handicapped people.