NCA is a member of Action by Churches Together, known as the ACT Alliance. The ACT Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organisations working together in over 130 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people.Read more: www.actalliance.org

The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) is a network of humanitarian and development organisations dedicated to ensuring greater accountability to people affected by crisis. In 2011, NCA became the first and so far the only Norwegian HAP-certified organisation. Read more: www.hapinternational.org

NCA is a member of the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF). The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) represents over 50 International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) delivering humanitarian assistance and development projects in Pakistan. Read more: www.pakhumanitarianforum.org

NCA is member of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) Alliance, launched in collaboration with UNIFEM in 2007 to mark 16 days of activism against gender based violence. Our aim is to end all forms of violence against women and girls through strengthening coordination between stakeholders working on violence against women and identification of common areas of intervention.

Pakistan

Togetherfor a just world

Who we are

Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is an independent, humanitarian organisation working for global justice in more than 30 countries around the world.

NCA started from humble beginnings in 1945, in response to suffering and displacement at the end of the Second World War. Churches in Norway began collecting funds to assist refugees and other destitute, war affected people across Europe.

This fundraising campaign was named ‘Norwegian Church Aid’ as donations came from church-goers all around Norway, who were moved by compassion and solidarity to help alleviate suffering. Relief efforts grew, and extended to refugees in Central Europe and the Middle East.

Since then, NCA has evolved into a professional, international actor, and today we are proud to be among the largest humanitarian organisations in Norway and the Nordic countries.

Five core values guide our work:

Ÿ Human Dignity - we respect and protect the dignity of all human beings.

Ÿ Global Justice - we work to expose and eradicate root causes of poverty and injustice.

Ÿ Integrity of Creation - we respect and protect our natural environment and all living beings.

Ÿ Inclusive Communities - we promote and enable the informed participation of all individuals and groups we seek to empower.

Ÿ Compassion – we are moved by suffering, and we are compelled to alleviate it.

NCA Pakistanwww.nca.no/pakistan Contact us: +92 (0) 51 831 7406-7

Networks

Past and present partners

Research and Development Foundation (RDF), Sungi Development Foundation (SUNGI), Peace and Development Organization (PADO), Pakistan Rural Initiatives for Emergency Preparedness, Response and Development (PREPARED), Taraquee Foundation (TF) Baluchistan, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), Pakistan Village Development Program (PVDP) Aurat Foundation, Khwendo Kor, South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK), World Council of Religions Pakistan (WCR), Organization for Research & Education (ORE), International Islamic Centre (IIC), Christian Study Centre (CSC), Diocese of Peshawar - Church of Pakistan, Diocese of Raiwind - Church of Pakistan, Pakistan Council of World Religions (PCWR).

We thank all our partners for their good work and excellent collaboration.

Donor support

NCA project funding for Pakistan comes from ordinary people across Norway. NCA also receives generous support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the United Nations Emergency Relief Fund (ERF), HEKS, Swiss Solidarity (SwS) Switzerland, and the ACT Alliance, especially the Church of Sweden, Christian Aid UK, and Finn Church Aid.

We thank all our donors for their essential and valuable support.

Water engineer testing water sample for drinking suitability, Dadu.Photo: Lintunen / Finn Church Aid.

Young girl participating in hygiene awareness session in Dadu.Photo: Ammar Orakzai / NCA, Pakistan.

Peacebuilding 2007-2013 735,000 individuals reached

Gender Jusitice 2010-20131.3 millionindividuals reached

WASH 2007-2013137,000 families assisted (approx. 1 million individuals)

NCA reach

Photo: NCA, Pakistan.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Mansehra, Battagram, Abbottabad, Haripur, Mardan, Swabi, Buner, Swat, Tank, Dir, Peshawar, Charsadda, Shangla, Muzzaffaragarh, Nowshera, Kohat

Punjab

Rajanpur, DG Khan, Gujrat, Layyah, Bahawalpur,Multan, Lahore

Sindh

Karachi, Umerkot, Thatta, Mirpurkhas, Jacocobabad, Aallahyar, Kashmore, Dadu, Naushehro Feroze

Balochistan

Turbat, Bolan, Sibi, Ziarat, Loralai,Jaffarabad

Karachi

Lahore

Quetta

Peshawar

Islamabad

Where we workWhat we do and how we work

NCA is a faith-based organisation working for global justice. Our goal is to empower the poor and challenge the privileged. This work is carried out with no intention of influencing people’s religious affiliation.

In line with the NCA constitution and the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, assistance is provided unconditionally to all, based solely on needs and rights.

NCA works for global justice in three integrated ways:

1. Long-term development

NCA believes in empowering local urban and rural communities. As a partner and network organisation, we train and cooperate with communities and local organisations, so that they in turn can engage more people in achieving long term development gains.

2. Disaster preparedness and emergency response

We save lives through disaster preparedness and emergency interventions. In sudden onset disasters such as earthquakes, floods or conflict situations, NCA may intervene directly and temporarily to provide relief materials, safe water, sanitation facilities and hygiene awareness.

3. Advocacy

We promote peace, democracy and human rights through advocacy with policy-makers and opinion-leaders, including religious leaders, for just and lawful decisions, especially to protect girls, boys and women.

NCA in Pakistan

NCA has worked in Pakistan since 1981. In the beginning, programme activities supported Afghan refugees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

In more recent years, NCA has responded to natural disasters, providing humanitarian assistance to people affected by the 2005 earthquake and the 2010 floods. After operating from Peshawar and later Kabul, NCA established a Pakistan country office in Islamabad in 2007.

NCA works with local partners whose invaluable dedication and contribution makes it possible to reach and assist people in an effective way.

In Pakistan, we manage programmes in three thematic areas: Ÿ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Disaster Risk

Reduction (DRR)Ÿ Gender Justice Ÿ Peacebuilding

1. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

NCA specialises in providing safe drinking water, improved sanitation facilities, and hygiene awareness to people affected by disaster. We also rehabilitate infrastructure and support long-term development in water and sanitation, especially for marginalised urban and rural communities.

Our expert gender-mainstreaming staff help ensure the participation of girls, boys, women and men in all phases of project management.

From 2014, NCA will strengthen the resilience of flood-prone communities in Sindh, through women-centred and conflict-sensitive DRR interventions.

2. Gender Justice

NCA works to empower women to be active citizens. In particular, we are committed to combatting gender-based violence. Our priorities are to improve women’s access to inheritance, choice in marriage, and protection from domestic violence.

Activities include awareness raising, support to survivors of violence, and advocacy with a wide range of influential stakeholders including authorities and religious leaders.

3. Peacebuilding

NCA actively works with faith communities on peacebuilding in Pakistan. Faith community structures constitute an important part of civil society in Pakistan, and represent a great potential resource for peacebuilding.

At the request of Muslim and Christian leaders in Pakistan, NCA has and will continue to facilitate dialogue and cooperation between different religious communities, and other civil society organisations, to support their efforts to contribute to a safe and more peaceful society for all citizens.

“I have decided to let my daughter marry according to her own choice. For a woman like me, who has lived a life of dependence, injustice and suffering, I am not going to let the SAP-PK (NCA implementing partner) initiative go to waste. I will support women’s consent to marriage and their property rights till the day I die.”

Community member from Tehsil Yazman, Bahawalpur.This map shows past and present project locations

Young girl from internally displaced family collecting water for household use in Nowshera.Photo: Peace and Delopment Organisation (PADO).

Young boys participating in hygiene awareness session in Dadu.Photo: Ammar Orakzai / NCA, Pakistan.

Discussion with women in Bahawalpur.Photo: Khurrum Sebastian.