Today's crises are increasingly protracted, complex, and interconnected. In this context and given the widening gap between humanitarian needs and available resources, we follow the principle of needs-based humanitarian aid. This includes short-term emergency measures, disaster prevention and reconstruction operations, which are carried out on the basis of reports and requests from our local partners. Recognising the complexity of humanitarian crises, we have reviewed the relationship between stability and peacebuilding, development cooperation and humanitarian aid, and planned our activities together with all stakeholders.
Our aim is to ensure long-term social stability and sustainability through our projects, to help build strong, crisis-resilient, and diverse (e.g. religious) communities, to support the return of displaced people in conflict situations, to promote sustainable development and to prevent further conflict and to create decent living conditions.
Below is a thematic overview of our humanitarian and development programmes. Recognising the key role of peacebuilding and building social resilience in the context of sustainable development, our programme also focuses on religiously persecuted minorities. Our local partners are mostly faith-based organisations that are key players in local societies, especially in countries where there is no stable government. In our experience, these organisations are able to serve the common interest in all walks of life, working for the benefit of local society as a whole. Their representatives are in close contact with local community members and play a key role in the humanitarian and development projects we coordinate.
