Quality and Accountability in Haiti

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."

Quality and Accountability in Haiti

DCA’s Head of Humanitarian Response, Erik Johnson, is the co-author of a new article on the improvement in quality and accountability of the humanitarian response in Haiti by INGOs, NNGOs, UN and local government, through the promotion of Sphere and HAP standards.

25.10.2010

Haiti, September 2010. According to the Sphere standards, the average person's water intake is 15 liters per day. During the summer, water supplies in Haiti only amounted to 2 litres per person per day.

Aid agencies in Haiti had difficulties meeting the standards especially in the first days after the earthquake.They faced numerous obstacles that made the disaster response uniquely challenging.

However, the establishment of a local resource capacity, initiated by DCA, which focused on promoting the quality and accountability of the earthquake response helped organizations improve their aid work.

The effort included activities such as training, coaching and capacity building.

The article by Erik Johnson and Emily Rogers was published in the NGO VOICE’s newsletter VOICE OUT LOUD issue 12, on October 2010. The issue focuses on different aspects of the humanitarian response, including involvement of and coordination between various actors, disaster risk reduction and protection.

Read the article in its full length in the NGO VOICE’s newsletter: VOICE OUT LOUD no.12, p. 12