Action by Churches Together International: ACT is an international alliance of churches and relief agencies assisting thousands of people recovering from emergencies in more than 50 countries worldwide. It is the joint coordination office of the member Churches of the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. ACT strives to reach needy populations across front lines, national borders and other ethnic, political or religious divides. ACT provides assistance irrespective of race, gender, creed, nationality, ethnic origin or political persuasion.
Priotity Areas: victims of natural and environmental disasters as well as emergencies caused by war and civil conflict.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International: ADRA is an independent humanitarian agency established in 1984 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the specific purposes of individual and community development and disaster relief. As an internationally recognized non-governmental organization, ADRA helps people without regard to ethnic, political or religious association. ADRA has a presence in more than 120 countries.
Core portfolio focuses: Food security, economic development, primary health, disaster preparedness and response, and basic dducation.
Aga Khan Foundation: is a non-denominational, international development agency established in 1967 by His Highness the Aga Khan. Its mission is to develop and promote creative solutions to problems that impede social development, primarily in Asia and East Africa. Created as a private, non-profit foundation under Swiss law, it has branches and independent affiliates in 12 countries. It is a modern vehicle for traditional philanthropy in the Ismaili Muslim community under the leadership of the Aga Khan.
Major areas of focus: Sustainable improvements in health status among vulnerable groups of women and children in especially the geographically remote areas, basic education including for girls and the very poor, rural development and poverty eradication,NGO - enhancement and related institutional support strengthening services.
Ajutor Interbisericesc Departamentul Romania (Ecumenical Association of Churches in Romania). AIDRom started as a co-operation between the Orthodox, the Reformed and the Lutheran churches of Romania, co-ordinated by the World Council of Churches. The main tasks of AIDRom is to distribute humanitarian relief aid through specific projects in social diaconal and ecological fields, and is the ecumenical platform for Romanian churches.
Priotity Programmes: Education for Spiritual Renewal - Ethnic reconciliationand "Training for Transformation" workshops, Social Diakonia - questions of family life and women's concerns, differently ables, streetchildren, handicapped, elderly and refugees, and Ecology.
American Friends Service Committee: (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
Priotity Focuses: Issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth, in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Association of World Council of Churches related Development Organisations in Europe: APRODEV is the association of the 15 major ecumenical development and humanitarian aid organisations in Europe, which work closely together with the World Council of Churches. The organisation promotes fairness, justice, the eradication of poverty, and facilitates access to the European Union institutions for Aprodev organisations and the ecumenical family.
Priotity Programmes: Development cooperation: fund raising, funding of emergency, relief, rehabilitation and development activities, capacity building, consultancy, awareness raising, education, and advocacy.
Brot für Alle (Bread for All): BFA is the Swiss Protestant Churches development agency which supports over 400 development projects and programmes in 57 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and organises campaigns aimed at Catholic and Protestant parishes in Switzerland and the wider public on development policy issues: money, debt, work, ecology, etc.
Priotity Areas: Development co-operation programme, emergency aid, development of partnerships and networks, fair trade, international finance, working for peace, gender policy, sustainable development, culture and education in development.
Caritas Internationalis: A confederation of 154 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations present in 198 countries and territories. The Caritas mission is to spread solidarity and social justice throughout the world. We draw our inspiration from Christian scripture, tradition and the social teaching of the Church, as well as the lived experience of those we serve. Their members work to create a world in which the dignity of the human person is paramount, and inwhich exclusion, discrimination, violence, intolerance and dehumanising poverty are no more.
Priotity Areas: Relief and emergency community care, emergency assistance to the victims natural disasters, support in situations of humanitarian crisis and international affairs, assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons, family policy, international cooperation, medical programmes and aids prevention.
Catholic Relief Services: Founded by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside the country. The fundamental motivating force in all activities of CRS is the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it pertains to the alleviation of human suffering, the development of people and the fostering of charity and justice in the world.
CRS provides direct aid to the poor, and involves people in their own development, helping them to realize their potential. CRS educates the people of the USA to fulfill their moral responsibilities around the world by helping the poor, working to remove the causes of poverty, and promoting social justice.
Priotity Areas: Asia: peace building, interfaith and intercultural dialogue, education, child labor, refugees and internally displaced persons. Africa: food security, peace building, HIV/AIDS, civil society building, emergency response, health care. Caribbean / Latin America: emergency relief , human rights issues, capacity building. Eastern Europe / Caucasus: civic participation, reducing economic exclusion, rebuilding communities after conflict and peace building. Middle East / Africa: emergency assistance, support in humanitarian crisis and conflict, and solidarity programmes (microfinance, health,peace building and interfaith understanding).
Christian Aid: Christian Aid is the official relief and development agency of 40 church denominations in the United Kingdom and Ireland. CAID works in over 60 countries helping people regardless of religion or race to improve their own lives and tackle the roots causes of poverty and injustice. It strives for a new world transformed by an end to poverty and campaigns to change the rules that keep people poor.
Priotity Areas: Food security, health - supporting poor people in accessing health care, with particular emphasis on issues around HIV/AIDS, rights - supporting and undertaking work which enables poor communities to assert their civil, social, political and cultural right, peace building and reconciliation - helping communities to overcome situations of conflict, micro-enterprise and credit Emergency response.
Church of Sweden Aid Lutherhjälpen: Lutherhjälpen / Church of Sweden Aid (CSA) is the relief organisation of the Swedish Lutheran Church. It is one of Sweden's largest organisations for international aid based on voluntary fundraising.
Priotity Areas: Sustainable ecological development, food security, credit and savings schemes, local resource mobilsation, emergency relief,economic and social justice programmes.
Church World Service: CWS is the relief and development agency of the of the National Council of Churches in the U.S.A. It partners on the journey with indigenous churches and organizations in more than 80 countries, sharing the struggle to help people move beyond poverty and powerlessness. CWS partners with churches and indigenous organisations in more than 80 countries, working to meet human needs and foster self-reliance for all whose way is hard. CWS works worldwide on behalf of 36 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox communions in the U.S.Within the U.S., Church World Service assists communities in responding to disasters, resettles refugees, promotes fair national and international policies, provides educational resources, and offers opportunities.
Priotity Areas: Nuturing sustainable self-help development, social and economic development, emergency response, assistance to refugees, education and advocacy, ecumenical relationships, mission relationship and witness, combating malnutrition, restoring health, HIV/aids prevention and care, development, emergency needs, people-centered development programs that can reduce hunger and poverty,
Cimade: A French movement of 60 local groups in 12 regions who are very active in refugee hospitality and social justice issues.
Priotity Areas: Refugees, development and migration.
Dan Church Aid: DCA is an independent humanitarian organisation based on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark and on the national and international ecumenical network. DanChurchAid funds activities within three main areas: It gives financial support to church-based and secular partners in order to reach poor and marginalised communities on all continents and simultaneously works with partners at home on development education, policy issues and fundraising.
Priotity Areas:Long term development, emergency assistance and development education. support of people in conflict and war situations, sustainable church development, refugees, good governance, income generation and developmental activities.
Diakonia: The joint ecumenical development aid organisation of six non-State churches in Sweden. Their work is founded on cooperation with national and local churches and organisations.
Priotity Areas: advocacy work to draw attention to humanitarian values in an environment dominated by economical values and rules, Palestine Israel, and global economical issues.
Diakonisches Werk der E.K.D.: DW is development agancy of the 24 regional churches and related diaconial organisations of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The organisation is committed to working with people in situations of injustice and social marginalisation.
International Priotity Areas: Development and self-sustainable projects, "Hope for Eastern Europe" programme, street children, disaster relief - short and medium term assistance, ecumenical programme "Churches helping Churches", vunerable women and children (overcoming violence), overcoming racism programmes through supporting minority communities, capacity building and scholarship programs.
Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst EED is the Church development service of the Protestant Churches in Germany. The EED supports the development work of the churches, Christian organisations and private agencies through funding, seconding qualified personnel and by offering consultancy services. The EED assists those who live in abject poverty and need, whose dignity is violated or whose lives are threatened by war or other natural disasters.
Priotity Areas: Church development work, empowerment and participation of the deprived groups of society, empowering people to fight for their basic economic, social and political human rights, long-term development work, peace work, conflict monitoring and mediation.
Finn Church Aid : (FCA) carries out development, relief and interchurch aid in about 60 countries on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland and its congregations.
Priotity Areas - Afica: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Uganda - Rural development programs, assistance to refugees, reconstruction/ rehabilitation, community motivation and education, health. Latin America: El Salvador, Peru, Guatemala- rehabilitation, rural development programs, human rights. Asia and Middle East: Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Nepal- Rural development programs, education. Europe: Balkan Region, Russia, Estonia -Humanitarian aid, reconstruction, interchurch cooperation.
Global Ministries of the Uniting Churches in the Netherlands: carries out capacity training, social justice projects, development, relief and interchurch aid around the world on behalf of the United Churches in theNetherlands (Netherlands Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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HEKS / EPER: Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz/ Entraide Protestante Suisse is the development agency of the Evangelical Protestant Churches in Switzerland. They co -operate world-wide with local church and social organizations,
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Hungarian InterChurch Aid: HIA is an ecumenical charitable development agency of the Churches in Hungary, which was founded in 1991 with the intention of providing assistance to those in need regardless of gender, race, nationality and religion. Representing all the Hungarian Protestant and Orthodox Churches and other various organisations, foreign and national individuals.
Operational Areas: domestic social activities in HIA's regional centres around Hungary, emergency assistance and refugees.
InterChurch Organisation for Development Cooperation: ICCO the Dutch Interchurch organization for development cooperation, is one of four Dutch co-financing organizations. With money from Dutch and European governments in particular, ICCO finances projects in about sixty countries in Africa and the Middle East, in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Asia and the Pacific, in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Central Asia. ICCO's mission is to work towards a world where poverty and injustice are no longer present.
Priotity Areas: Education, health care, small-scale business activities and income acquisition, savings and credit programmes, rural development and sustainable agriculture, gender issues, human rights, sustainable forestry, organization development, democratization and organisational development.
Icelandic Church Aid
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International Islamic Relief: (IIRO) is a humanitarian non-governmental organization which provides assistance to victims of natural disasters and wars all over the world. Relief work is conducted on purely humanitarian grounds, without any distinction
on the basis of ethnic, linguistic or religious considerations. The IIRO has, however, discovered that more than 80% of the refugees and victims of wars and disasters are Muslims. Some of the IIRO relief programs are therefore directed towards the provision of medical, educational and social support of those in desperate need of them.
Priotity Areas:Urgent relief in disaster and conflict areas, refugees, health care; children, orphans & social welfare, education, employment / viable economic projects, development of small business ventures, consultancy, capacity building and sustainable agriculture.
Islamic World Relief: IRW seeks to promote sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities through relief and development programmes.
Priotity Areas: Development, income generation, emergency relief, water sanistation, health, education, children and orphan support.
Core Geographical Focus Area: Afganistan, Albania, Azerbaijan,Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Chechnya, Gaza Strip, Mali, India, Palestine, Pakistan and Sudan.
Lutheran World Federation: The LWF is a global communion of 133 member churches (in the Lutheran tradition) in 73 countries representing over 60.5 million Lutherans worldwide The location
of the LWF secretariat in the Ecumenical Center in Switzerland, facilitates close cooperation with the World Council of Churches, other Christian World Communions as well as international secular organizations. The LWF acts on behalf of its member churches in areas of common interest. The Department for World Service (DWS) serves as the international relief,rehabilitation and development agency of the LWF. There are programmes in 21 countries with 60 international staff and 5,600 local staff. The DWS responds to emergencies in collaboration with Action by Churches Together (ACT), a world wide network of churches and agencies.
Priotity Areas: Environment, human rights, landmines, refugees, training, evaluation,development education, emergency relief, food aid, migration and resettlement.
Norwegian Church Aid: NCA is the ecumenical independent development aid organisation of the Norwegian Churches. Priority area include working for mutuality and justice in to relation to marginalized groups of people and nations. Norwegian Church Aid was founded after the Second World War to bring assistance to war affected Europeans. Initially a Church of Norway organisation,
Kirkens Nodhjelp is now an ecumenical agency. Until the mid 1970s NCA was known as a mainly emergency relief organisation. Today, relief takes about half of the budget expenditures.
Priotity Areas: Emergency response, Hiv/Aids, Gender concerns, strengthening the development of people's and organisations' resources, promotion of a greater productive activity and a more just distribution of wealth, peace programmes, promotion of responsible management of natural resources as a basis for sustainable development, saving lives in situations of disaster and acute need.
World Council of Churches: hThe WCC was established in 1948 and encompasses a membership of about 400 million Christians represented through more than 340 churches, denominations and fellowships in 120 countries and territories throughout the world. The member organisations of the council are committed to the common calling of "one human family in justice and peace." The WCC responds to emergencies in collaboration with Action by Churches Together (ACT), a world wide network of churches and agencies.
Priotity Areas: Solidarity with the poor, social justice, Church and ecumenical development, lifting up the voice of church in society, ecumenical space: building trust for common action, working for peace and reconciliation, sharing alternatives to economic globalization, combating racism and discrimination, overcoming violence, education, capacity training, income generation programmes, long term sustainable communities, education, scholarships, chilren, youth and women's rights, emergency / conflict situations, disaster preparation and ecumenical formation.
World Vision International: WVI is an international Christian relief and development organisation working to promote the well-being of all people - especially children. World Vision seeks to serve people who are poor worldwide, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic origin.
Priotity Areas: Transformational development that is sustainable and community-based, focused especially on the needs of children, emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster, and promotion of justice.
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