Programme policies

DanChurchAid works with five programme types:

The right to food

• Sustainable access to food and adequate nutrition through production, entitlements and increased purchasing power for women.
• Advocacy for increased and gender sensitive food security at national and international levels.
• Empowerment of the poorest to influence resource allocation and reduction of vulnerability to adverse changes.
• Strengthened links between the right to food and; reduced vulnerability to hiv/aids; improved resilience to natural and man-made disasters; and efforts in relief and rehabilitation.

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Political Space

• Discrimination, particularly gender discrimination, and the political participation of marginalized groups
• Access of marginalized groups to formal and informal judicial systems
• Advocacy for legal, policy and budget reform based on interests of discriminated women and men.
• Media and communication strategies for positive and rights-sensitive discourse
• Empowerment and strengthened organization of discriminated groups.

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HIV and AIDS

• Advicacy for increased commitment to scale up the HIV and AIDS response
• A rights based and gender equality perspective
• Focus on multi dimensional prevention
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Fightin stigmatisation and discrimination
• Addressing the dual role of faith based organisations

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Humanitarian Assistance

• Provision of sustanaible relief and rehabilitation with a special focus on food crisis response
• Advocacy for increased humanitarian space and access to assistance/protection
• Partner/ACT implemented assistance based on local community needs and capacities
• Linking relief, rehabilitation and development, including disaster risk reduction
• Gender issues addressed at all stages of DCA-supported emergency interventions
• Conflict sensitivity is an integrated part DCA humanitarian assistance
• A strong focus on accountability towards beneficiaries

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Humanitarian mine action

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DanChurchAid (DCA) has been involved in mine action since the mid-1980s. Focus is primarily on mine awareness, mine clearance, capacity building and advocacy activities. Our Policy is on the way

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