Overview

DanChurchAid is an independent, church-based, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organization. The objective of DanChurchAid is to help the poorest of the poor and other marginalized groups regardless of religion, race or creed and to strenghten their possibilities for living a life in dignity. DCA has an office in 11 countries and carries out work in more than 30 countries across Asia, Central Asia, Africa, Central America and the Middle East. DanChurchAid’s values are based on a Christian view of humanity with respect for the rights and equal worth of every individual. This view informs the rights-based approach of DCA’s work. DanChurchAid is rooted in the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is active wherever we find the need is highest, regardless of religion, gender, political beliefs, race, national or ethnic origins or sexual orientation. The slogan of DCA is “We believe in life before death”.

Background

DanChurchAid has been working in Asia since the late 1970s and been supporting work in Cambodia since 1979 through organizations such as Lutheran World Service, American Friends Service Committee and a joint ecumenical initiative through the World Council of Churches with Church World Service. In 1997, DanChurchAid established a programme office in Cambodia and began supporting more than 30, mainly local NGO’s. Since 2008, DCA’s programmes has been joint with its British sister organisation, Christian Aid (CA). DCA/CA’s work in Cambodia is guided by the development objective of an empowered Cambodian civil society in which women and men participate equally to defend rights and contribute to more accountable governance. Further, DCA works to promote the right to food and a secure and sustainable livelihood for vulnerable and impoverished Cambodians. DCA/CA Cambodia works through 27 local implementing partners, providing technical support, capacity development and financial assistance. DCA is a member of both NGO Forum in Cambodia and Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC).

Mission

DanChurchAid carries out its work with the objective: - To help and be advocates of oppressed, neglected and marginalised groups in poor countries and to strengthen their possibilities of a life in dignity. - To carry out emergency aid and development activities in cooperation with local, religious and non-religious partner organizations, and - To inform the public about the causes of poverty and inequality as well as to mobilize popular and political will and power to address them.

Vision

DanChurchAid has a vision of a world without hunger, poverty and oppression, in which popular and political powers constantly work strongly and actively for a just distribution and use of the earth’s resources.

Goal

DCA will work towards ensuring the following fundamental rights of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people: 1. The right to take part in and influence social, political and economic changes; 2. The right to food through better access to livelih