Our newest members
Welcome to Society for Safe Environment & Welfare of Agrarian’s in Pakistan (SSEWA-Pak) as the 31st full member of HAP International in March 2009
The Society for Safe Environment and Welfare Agrarians in Pakistan (SSEWA-Pak) formerly the Lower Sindh Rural Development Association (LSRDA) was founded in 1975.
SSEWA-Pak is based in Rattanabad Mirpurkhas where it operates a training resource centre, a health centre and a research centre. At the end of 2008, SSEWA-Pak had two field offices one in Pithoro District Umerkot and the other in Roshanabad, Naukot District Mirpurkhas. SSEWA-Pak has a team of 175 who are working with over 200 communities of District Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Badin, Tandoalayar and Tharparkar. SSEWA-Pak has an integrated rural community development programme that it implements with community participation.
SSEWA operate a total of twelve programmes including their emergency relief and rehabilitation programme. While the majority of their activities focus on community capacity building, livelihood development and education for women and children, the emergency programme was originally established to work as a local partner for Tearfund UK and ICCO Netherlands. SSEWA acts only in cases of emergency after natural disasters with food and shelter requirements. If the situation necessitates they will also participate in rehabilitation of affected communities. In 2007-2008 their emergency relief programme was focused on the construction and provision of low cost shelter projects.
To find out more about the Society for Safe Environment & Welfare of Agrarian’s in Pakistan please visit their website.
Welcome to Community and Family Services International (CFSI) as the 30th full member of HAP International as of March 2009.
The purpose of CFSI is rebuilding lives. Its mission is to vigorously protect and promote human security—specifically the lives, well being, and dignity of people uprooted by persecution, armed conflict, disaster, and other exceptionally difficult circumstances.
Established in 1981 and based in the Philippines, this humanitarian organization is focused on the Asia and Pacific Region and presently assisting refugees, internally displaced persons, and stateless persons in the Philippines, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste.
CFSI has two goals. The first is to empower and equip uprooted people to address and prevent social and health problems. The second is to prevent children, women, and men from becoming uprooted by promoting peace, respect for human rights, and the equitable distribution of resources.
To find out more about CFSI please visit their website.
Welcome to Community Development Centre (CODEC) as the 29th full member of HAP International as of March 2009
Since 1985 CODEC has operated along the coastal belt of Bangladesh; its organisational aim is poverty alleviation through supporting and empowering vulnerable communities (particularly fishing communities) through a number of needs-based development activities based upon building socio-economic infrastructure and improving community self-reliance. CODEC has approached its programming in partnership with beneficiary communities, stating - the key (to) development is in the hands of the communities. While not explicitly describing itself as a humanitarian or emergency response agency, CODEC began responding to emergency need after a cyclone hit Bangladesh in 1991. More recently, the agency distributed aid and health care support to survivors of cyclone Sidr and continues to work with the affected-communities on livelihood and rehabilitation projects. In 2006 CODEC opened two training centres (Patuakhali and Chittagong) supporting beneficiaries through economic & vocational training financed through a micro-credit programme.
For the period of 2007-2012, the governance of CODEC has identified three main programme components: (i) socio-cultural focusing on rights-based approach to community participation, (ii) economic development via income generating activities and training, and (iii) national advocacy with the aim to include the marginalised coastal communities in the main stream of development processes.
To find out more about CODEC please visit their website.
Welcome to the Women’s Rights Association (WRA), Multan Pakistan as the 7th Associate member in March 2009
Established in 1999, the Women’s Rights Association (WRA) is registered as a Pakistani not-for-profit agency working in Multan and its neighbouring districts with the majority of its activities focused on capacity building, education and psychosocial support. Although WRA concentrates on projects designed to assist the social mobility and wellbeing of women, they also provide educational services and supportive rehabilitation projects for men, the elderly and children across five districts (Multan, Khanewal, Lodhran Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur) of Southern part of Punjab province of Pakistan.
Recent capacity building programmes include educational and organisational initiatives, such as cooperatives and microenterprise support for farmers & labourers; developing local economic and social opportunities to enhance access and promotion of democratic institutions; and the establishment of collective networks.
Welcome to Focus Humanitarian Assistance as the 28th full member of HAP International as of March 2009
Focus Humanitarian Assistance is the humanitarian arm and affiliate of the Aga Khan Development Network [AKDN], a group of international development agencies with mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. The AKDN agencies are dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender.
Focus Humanitarian Assistance works with vulnerable communities in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East to reduce risk through disaster awareness, preparedness and mitigation activities. In addition, FOCUS provides humanitarian aid and emergency support to communities in the event of natural and manmade disasters.
Over the past 18 months FOCUS’ emergency programmes have been active in Kenya (following the post election violence), in Afghanistan (responding to various in country emergencies among other longer term community based programmes), India (in response to various emergencies as well as the implementation of community based disaster risk reduction activities) Bangladesh (distribution of aid and support to those affected by Cyclone Sidr), Pakistan (various mitigation projects and continual support across the country in response to various emergencies), and Tajikistan (risk reduction and mitigation projects, and responses to various in country emergencies. The majority of these responses are followed by long-term development projects through the Aga Khan Development Network agencies such as the Aga Khan Planning & Building Services, the Aga Khan Health Services, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, the Aga Khan Foundation.
To find out more about Focus please visit their website.
Welcome to Coordination of Afghan Relief as HAP's 27th full member as of November 2008.
HAP International is delighted to announce it’s first Afghan member. The Coordination of Afghan Relief (CoAR) was established in 1989 with a mandate to service the Afghan community, with particular emphasis on the marginalised and underprivileged. CoAR provides agriculture and irrigation support, food security, support to health, education and welfare needs for the rural poor, emphasising women and children as primary recipients. Recent activities, have also involved emergency relief and DRR management and training across 20 provinces.
To find out more about CoAR please visit their website.
Welcome to Merlin our 26th full member as of November 2008.
Merlin specialises in health, saving lives in times of crises and rebuilding shattered health systems. From Afghanistan to Somalia, Merlin works within existing health systems to create lasting change and realise everyone’s right to accessible, appropriate, affordable health care.
Founded in 1993, Merlin has responded to some of the world’s most serious humanitarian emergencies and chronic health care crises including the Rwandan genocide, the Asian tsunami and Darfur as well as Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. It has also had long term involvement in strengthening health systems in a number of countries such as Liberia and DR Congo.
To find out more Merlin's work in emergency medical response and health system rebuilding, please visit Merlin's webpage.
Welcome to The Lutheran World Federation – World Service. HAP's 25th full member as of October 2008.
World Service is the internationally recognised Humanitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World federation (LWF) and works with marginalised and disadvantaged communities in areas of greatest vulnerability and endemic need. World Service provides humanitarian aid and assists in rehabilitation and development in more than 30 countries. With programmes in Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, and Europe, World Service has a distinguished record of linking compassionate and professional emergency response with competence in rehabilitation programmes and effective long-term development efforts. World Service reaches out to marginalised and vulnerable poor people whose livelihoods are threatened by the effects of natural and human-made disaster, with special regard to internally displaced persons and refugees. World Service staff are committed to building people’s capacity and competence to make informed decisions about their own lives. World Service works with the stated mission: “people of the world living in just societies in peace and dignity, united in diversity, and empowered to achieve their universal rights, to met basic needs and quality of life”.
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Welcome to ACT International as the 24th full member of HAP International as of October 2008
Action by Churches Together (ACT) International is a global faith-based alliance that provides assistance to people caught in natural and environmental disasters, as well as in emergencies caused by war and civil conflict. Striving to reach communities in crises across front lines, national borders, and other ethnic, political or religious divides, ACT through its members provides assistance irrespective of race, gender, belief, nationality, ethnic origin or political persuasion.
Started in 1995, the ACT International alliance is present in more than 75 countries and made up of 132 member churches and related agencies, drawn from the membership of the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. Since 2005, ACT has mobilised more than US$287.7 million in coordinated humanitarian assistance appeals.
ACT members work in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, the UN World Food Programme, UNICEF, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and other non-governmental organisations. In addition, ACT is significantly engaged as a member of the wider humanitarian community. ACT's director represents the WCC and ACT on the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response at the principals level. ACT also participates actively as a member of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies, engages in the Global Humanitarian Platform and is a board member of The Sphere Project.
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Welcome to Naba'a, becoming HAP's 23rd full member in October 2008.
Naba'a is a Lebanese agency working direclty with Palestinian communities in the camps and gatherings in Lebanon and with disadvantaged Lebanese communities. Naba'a uses a holistic and integrated approach, involving a wide range of partners (both individuals and organizations within the community) to build a shared understanding and action plan to achieve their vision, mission and aims.
They hold four strategic objectives at the core of all activities:
- Aim to support young children who are most at risk of violence and neglect in the communities to provide them with opportunities to develop their confidence and to grow up in a safer, more inclusive environment.
- Aim to support children and youth who are at risk of dropping out from school and living in particularly hard circumstances, and to help them realize their potential.
- Aim to work with local communities, to build the capacity of those communities to take a more co-ordinated and inclusive approach to participatory decision-making and service provision.
- Aim to influence the decisions of key policy makers and service providers who are responsible towards the Palestinian communities living in Lebanon to uphold the rights of Palestinian children, and to be accountable for providing appropriate services.
To find out more visit the Naba'a website
Welcome to People In Aid. The 6th associate member of HAP International as of October 2008
People In Aid is a global network of development and humanitarian assistance agencies. We help organisations whose goal is the relief of poverty and suffering to enhance the impact they make through better management and support of staff and volunteers. We respond to the needs of our members and the sector by acting as an information exchange on good human resources and people management practice, by facilitating networking, by providing resources, by undertaking research and by answering queries. The People In Aid Code of Good Practice is one of the sector’s quality and accountability mechanisms, offering benchmarking, certification (through social audit) and a firm base for our members’ continuous improvement. People In Aid firmly supports the ideal that effective relief and development operations depend on the quality of staff and volunteers and the support an agency gives them. Our very practical output can help agencies enhance that quality.
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Welcome to Centre for Peace and Development Intiatives, Pakistan (CPDI) as HAP's 5th associate member in October 2008
The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, Pakistan (CPDI-Pakistan) is an independent, non-partisan and a not-for-profit civil society organization working on issues of peace and development across Pakistan. Originally established in 2003 by a group of concerned citizens wanting to approach the issues of peace and development in an integrated manner. Being the first of its kind in Pakistan, it seeks to inform and influence public policies and civil society initiatives through research-based advocacy and capacity building with the goal of promoting citizenship, peace building and achieving inclusive and sustainable development.
Areas of special focus include promotion of peace and tolerance, rule of law, transparency and access to information, budget watch and Legislative Watch and Development. CPDI envisions a world that guarantees rule of law, protects human and civil rights, embraces diversity of views, supports vulnerable people and provides optimum conditions in which each individual can realise his or her full potential.
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Welcome to Church World Service - Pakistan/Afghanistan. HAPs 22nd full member as of April 2008
Church World Service-Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS-P/A) is an INGO which implements humanitarian and development activities across Pakistan and Afghanistan through the following three programs: Disaster Response (DRP), Capacity Building (CBP), and Social Development (SDP). Globally, CWS-P/A is part of Church World Service International (U.S.A.) while locally its advisory board and regional networks give it roots. Since 1954, CWS-P/A has worked for the development and relief of marginalized communities on the basis that all individuals irrespective of race, faith, color, sex, economic status, political stands have the right to choose how to live. CWS-P/A assists marginalized communities to achieve economic prosperity and improve human and social capital through participatory endeavors, which liberate people and enhances their capacities to take control over their lives.
From our first office in Karachi, CWS-P/A quickly diversified from running solely SDP projects to encompassing CBP and DRP initiatives. Currently, CWS-P/A operates offices in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Mansehra, and Quetta in Pakistan and Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan. It also runs a training center in Murree, Pakistan.
Click here to visit the CWS-P/A website
Welcome to Muslim Aid. HAP's 21st full member as of January 2008
Muslim Aid is a UK based NGO founded in 1985 to promote a vision "of a world of peace, compassion and justice where all people achieve fulfilment". Muslim Aid's mission is "to tackle poverty by developing innovative and sustainable solutions enabling people and their communities to live in dignity and independence."
"Having gained a wealth of experience in the field of international relief and development work, we focus on working in partnership with local community-based organisations. This approach has proven to be most cost-effective in poverty relief and eradication and is also instrumental in building the capacity of local people to help themselves and regain their dignity."
In a number of crisis areas Muslim Aid also runs offices to directly implement relief and development projects. So far Muslim Aid has field offices in 10 strategic locations including Sudan, Iraq, Bangladesh and Somalia.
Click here to visit Muslim Aid's website
Welcome to COAST (Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust) as the 20th full member as of January 2008
Working in the southern coastal areas of Bangladesh, COAST Trust provides services to people living in one of the world’s most dangerous cyclone zones. COAST has emerged as an NGO from the Bhola project of Action Aid in the beginning of 1998. The transformation came about in a painstaking process that took place during 1994-1997: reducing overhead cost in building capacity and enhancing coverage, empowering beneficiaries to change their role to active partners of the development initiatives, and finally forming board of trustees to ensure local accountability.
COAST organizes strategically important activities related to development in the southeastern coastal areas of Bangladesh. These, in turn, facilitate the sustainable and equitable improvement of life especially of women, children and disadvantaged population of these areas. The strategies also encourage their increased participation in socio-economic, cultural and civic life.
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Welcome to the Sungi Development Foundation as the 19th full member as of January 2008
The Sungi Development Foundation, established in 1989, is a Pakistani NGO with its headquarters in Abbottabad. It's aim is to bring about policy and institutional changes by mobilizing deprived and marginalized communities with a view to creating an environment in which communities at the local level may be able to transform their lives through the equitable and sustainable use of resources.
Sungi is one of Pakistan’s few NGOs engaged in developing its humanitarian response capacity, and integrating disaster management into its rights-based development and advocacy work. It provided relief assistance following flash floods in 1992 in Hazara Division in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) – the same districts affected by the earthquake. It also responded to a number of other disasters, including an earthquake in April 2004 and a winter emergency and summer floods in 2005. Following the 2004 earthquake, Sungi conducted training sessions on earthquake-resistant housing techniques for masons, engineers and the general public. Disaster Management Committees (DMCs) were formed and activists were trained to handle emergencies. The Sungi Development Foundation is partner to several of HAP's international NGO members.
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Welcome to Agence d'Aide à la Coopération Technique Et au Développement (ACTED) as the 18th full member as of October 2007
ACTED is an independent, non-political, non-profit NGO with its headquarters in Paris, France. ACTED was actually first established in Afghanistan, later expanding into Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, into Nicaragua (after hurricane Mitch), the Congo in response to the civil war in 2003, Haiti (after hurricane Jeanne), Chad and Sudan in response to the Darfur crisis, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami, and Pakistan after the Kashmir earthquake.
ACTED’s Charter states that the agency ‘operates according to the principles of strict neutrality, political and religious impartiality, and non-discrimination’.
ACTED’s vocation is to save lives, assist vulnerable populations and bring hope to those in need for a better future.
ACTED is a humanitarian organisation which intervenes in times of crisis (emergency projects), immediately after (rehabilitation projects), or in the short and long term (development projects) in the following situations:
- In emergency situations linked to human factors,
- In situations due to natural disasters,
- In situations of economic and social disasters’
Visit the ACTED website for more details
Welcome to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) as the 17th full member as of April 2007
ACFID’s objectives are:
To work for social and economic justice
To respond appropriately to human needs; and
To promote conditions of sustainable development and the relief and eradication of poverty through which peoples everywhere can realise their potential as human beings.
Amongst ACFID’s purposes are:
To provide for consultation and cooperation between members concerning their work at home and abroad
To equip and encourage members to observe the highest ethical standards in all their activities, including strict observance of the (ACFID) Code of Conduct.
In 2007 ACFID had about 110 members of which between 10 and 20 are actively involved in providing humanitarian aid abroad. The 2006 Annual Report states that “ACFID members responded to the fires in Indonesia, the earthquake in Pakistan, the landslides in the Philippines, the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, the earthquake in Jogjakarta and the civil unrest in East Timor. ACFID facilitated the sharing of operational information amongst members, updated the ACFID website with a summary of the agencies’ relief activities and liaised with AusAID, the Australian Defence Force and other government departments. ACFID’s Humanitarian Reference Group also explored with AusAID a proposal to create an emergency stores warehouse for use by NGOs.”
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Welcome to DanChurchAid, the 16th full member of HAP as of April 2007
DanChurchAid was established in 1922 and is now one of Denmark’s largest international relief and development NGOs. Its objects, set out in the official DanChurchaid Statute of 13 May 2005, are:
To provide assistance to disadvantaged and oppressed communities
To provide assistance to church activities, usually outside Denmark
To carry out relief and emergency activities in cooperation with local churches as well as religious and popular organisations
And to disseminate information about the causes of distress and inequality as well as to mobilise popular and political power and will to act towards the alleviation of these conditions
DanChurchAid’s statute (article 4) also states that the organisation “shall cooperate with the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation and ACT (Action by Churches Together) … and shall endeavour to cooperate with churches in Denmark and abroad as well as with other humanitarian organisations in Denmark and abroad, Danish and foreign authorities, and international and regional organisations”.
The average expenditure of DanChurchAid over the last 3 years is $67 million. In 2005 the agency spent $29.7 million on humanitarian activities (38% of its expenditure), including disaster relief and humanitarian mine action. (A slightly small sum was spend on “development work”. 41% of it programme activities were undertaken in Africa, with the remainder fairly evenly spread across Europe/Central Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Vist the DanChurchAid website to find out more about their programmes
Welcome to Concern Worldwide as the 15th full member as of March 2007
The catalyst which gave rise to Concern was the "Biafra" famine in 1968. Now, Concern with its headquarters in Dublin Ireland is at any time working in up to 30 countries around the world. From Concern's website:
"Our mission is to help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives, which last and spread without ongoing support from Concern. To this end, Concern will work with the poor themselves, and with local and international partners who share our vision, to create just and peaceful societies where the poor can exercise their fundamental rights.
To achieve this mission we engage in long term development work, respond to emergency situations, and seek to address the root causes of poverty through our development education and advocacy work.
Our Identity – Who We Are:
Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Our Vision – for Change:
A world where no-one lives in poverty, fear or oppression; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy and creative life; a world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect."
Click here to go to the Concern Worldwide website
Welcome to Mango as the 5th Associate Member as from September 2006
Mango is a UK registered charity founded in 1999. "Our mission is to strengthen the financial management of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Mango meets an urgently felt need in the NGO sector. The sector recognises that it needs to operate to high professional standards at all times. That means working with really robust financial management. Our practical services help NGOs to achieve this. As a result, they can do more with their money. They can support more communities, dig more wells and - in the extreme case - save more lives."
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Welcome to Christian Aid as the 14th full member of HAP as of September 2006
We are delighted to announce that Christian Aid becam a full member of the Partnership on 29 September 2006.
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Welcome to Save the Children UK as the 13th full member of HAP from March 2006
We are delighted to announce that Save the Children UK became a full member of the Partnership in March 2006.
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Welcome to MERCY Malaysia as the 12th full member of HAP from February 2006
We are delighted to announce that MERCY Malaysia joined the Partnership as a full member in February 2006.
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Welcome to MAP, Medical Aid for Palestinians as the 11th full member of HAP from March 2005
We are delighted to announce that MAP became a full member of the Partnership in March 2005. MAP’s application has been approved by the Membership Review Group, in accordance with the Secretariat’s recommendation.
Medical Aid for Palestinians "is a British charity dedicated to the health and humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people. MAP was established in 1984 in the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon and today it operates in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza Strip) and Lebanon delivering basic health and medical care to Palestinian refugees. MAP also works to empower the Palestinian people and provide longer-term support through, for example, training local medical staff, teaching vocational skills and addressing the needs of particularly vulnerable groups such as disabled people. It is a non-political and non-partisan organisation supported by the British public, British Government, European Union and many international organisations."
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Welcome to CAFOD, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development as the 10th full member of HAP from February 2005.
We are delighted to announce that CAFOD became a full member of the Partnership in February 2005.
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development is “the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales”. It is a recognised UK charity (registration number 285776) governed under UK charity law by a Board of Trustees.
"CAFOD’s mission is to promote human development and social justice in witness to Christian faith and Gospel values. To fulfil this mission, CAFOD raises funds from within the Catholic community and beyond so that it can:
Empower people in need regardless of their race, gender, religion or politics to bring about change through development and relief programmes overseas;
Raise public awareness of poverty and injustice, increasing understanding of the worldwide interdependence of rich and poor, and creating the will to change unjust structures and lifestyles;
Act as an advocate for the poor, articulating a clear analysis of the underlying causes of poverty and challenging governments and international bodies to adopt policies, which incorporate the principles of social justice."
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The Second Board Meeting of HAP International held on 2nd June 2004 approved full membership applications from three of HAP's founders and associate membership applications from two of HAP's long-standing donors.
The First Board Meeting of HAP International held on 12 December 2003 approved the applications from HAP's first 6 full members and 2 associate members.
