Projects

Where we work Africa Asia Latin America Central Asia Middle East List of projects

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.

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What we do


	Our Approach Mine Action Hiv and Aids Humanitarian Assistance The Right to Food Political Space What we do © ACT/Paul Jeffrey

About us


	Organisation and Strategy DCA in the ACT Alliance Accounts Quality Assurance Contact us DanChurchAid believes © Mike Kollöffel 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."

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Our Results

Our Approach

Mine Action

Hiv and Aids

Humanitarian Assistance

The Right to Food

Climate change

Political Space

Albania

DCA Mine Action

Challanges

In the chaos that existed in Albania following the 1997 collapse of the Pyramid Schemes, and the subsequent political upheaval, large numbers of army storehouses and magazines, as well as police barracks were looted by civilian Albanians.

Significant quantities of ammunition, explosives and weapons were removed from authorized storage locations and were hidden away in private homes and surrounding areas. In some areas, the ammunition was abandoned close to the army ammunition storage houses and police barracks, which has subsequently created a serious threat to the safety of the local population living in these areas.

Since 2000, there have been 707 casualties (164 of the casualties have been children) in Albania as a result of exposure to munitions and explosives looted from the government storage in 1997.

Fast facts

Area of Operation:

There is a total of 18 identified Hotspots in Albania. DCA plans to continue working with the Government of Albania and donors to ensure these Hotspots are cleared and returned to the local communities free from the threat of danger from UXO.

Programme staff:

37 total, 1 international and 36 national staff

What we do in Albania

DCA has been working in Albania since early 2002, steadily clearing landmine contamination and reducing the threat of landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) along the border in northeast Albania. The programme was concluded in 2009, enabling Albania to meet the deadline under the Ottawa treaty.

Today DCA works with trained staff from the landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance programme to assist the government of Albania in safely dealing with a number of areas with abandoned ammunition. These contaminated areas are known as “Hotspots”.

The work consists of:

Survey the various areas with abandoned ammunition in order to determine the extent of the problem and the priority of clearance.
Conduct safe clearance of the contaminated areas in order to eliminate the threat to the land.
Provide a stand-by explosive ordnance disposal capacity to respond to emergency situations.

Previous donors

sqm cleared and released in 2011

33,200 sqm

Items destroyed in 2011

UXO: 1,065
Small Arms Ammunition: 11,642