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ABOUT ALLIANCE2015

Alliance2015 is a strategic partnership of seven European non-governmental organisations engaged in humanitarian and development activities. We are ACTED, Cesvi, Concern Worldwide, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Hivos, People in Need and Welthungerhilfe. Our global work is based on European values of human rights, solidarity and tolerance.

Founded in 2000 to strengthen our members’ contribution to the Millennium Development Goals, we now work towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We seek to increase our impact on poverty reduction and aid effectiveness, to contribute to communities’ resilience and effective emergency preparedness and response, and to influence development and humanitarian policies in Europe towards this.

Our members are active in 87 countries, programming €909.65 million in 2016 alone. We work together to deliver better results, value for money, and increased transparency and accountability. In the past five years, we have managed 68 joint projects, with a grant value of over €283 million.

Alliance2015 members are proud of their close cooperation. Since January 2017, this collaboration is supported by a

‘Hub’ in Brussels led by our Director, Antonia Potter Prentice. We aim to ensure voices from the countries we work in are heard by European decision makers. To that end, we deliver authentic and constructive messages to EU and European

donors, founded on evidence and practical expertise, to ensure humanitarian and development aid are implemented in line with the principles and ambitions that underpin the SDGs.

Dominic MacSorley,President of Alliance2015

DEVELOPMENT

The SDGs address intertwined challenges of poverty, hunger, climate change, inequality and conflict. Alliance2015 members are robustly equipped to contribute to their realisation, with particular expertise in the areas of food and nutrition security and community resilience. To that goal, our members join forces by sharing knowledge and resources, developing ambitious joint programmes that tackle aspects of these issues effectively and efficiently. In all countries with more than one Alliance2015 organisation, members regularly meet, exchange information and lessons learnt from their work and when possible, design and implement joint programmes.

For example, Alliance2015 is engaged in significant community resilience building programmes funded by the EU, the German Government and DFID, for instance in Pakistan, Tajikistan or Ethiopia. We are also seeking to address the root causes of poverty in joint programmes funded by the Dutch Government in Lebanon and Pakistan.

Alliance2015 members help to deliver the EU Aid Volunteers initiative, on both capacity strengthening and EU volunteer deployment. In 2016, the first volunteers were deployed and worked in some crisis areas including Haiti and Malawi.

Victoria Macumi (36) knows the key to good nutrition – producing a ready supply of fresh vegetables in her prized kitchen garden. She also supplements her family’s diet with fruit grown at home or bought at the market. © Chris de Bode/Panos Pictures for Concern Worldwide

EMERGENCY

Responding quickly and effectively to emergencies is a major strength of Alliance2015 members, having significant expertise in humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction (e.g. nutrition and food security; health, water and sanitation; protection and education). When a disaster strikes, rapid member coordination starts between respective headquarters and on the ground to maximise the speed and efficiency of our response.

Increasingly, country teams share critical information and develop joint emergency preparedness and response plans. These have

helped our teams to prepare and deliver an effective response to the Mosul crisis in Iraq, and coordinate their response to floods in Nepal and in Sri Lanka.

Alliance2015 members are engaged in joint responses to some of the most complex and challenging humanitarian crises including in Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. They also provide each other with much needed peer-support in the least publicised humanitarian crises (e.g. the Kasai region in DRC, Chad or Central African Republic) where aid does not match the scale of the needs.

Alliance2015 partners ACTED, People in Need and Welthungerhilfe distributed food and non-food items in Iraq during their joint Mosul response. @Jakub Plíhal, Aktuálně.cz

We design and support targeted advocacy initiatives that increase the impact of our operational work, seek lasting positive changes to the lives of people living in poverty and mobilise political and financial support for sustainable development and emergency preparedness and response.

We build effective, evidence-based cooperation with partners in the countries where we work, and with coalitions in Brussels. Through our Brussels hub, we channel voices, views

and evidence from those we work with into structured dialogue events and engagements with the EU and other key decision makers on the gaps in policy and practice in development and humanitarian work, and how best to address them.

We provide our country teams with advice and support so the learning and impact of their programmes is better used to influence development or humanitarian policies and practices.

ADVOCACY

*Authored by our members Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The cover of the 2017 GHI Report, “The Inequalities of Hunger”. Cover photo © Soe Zeya Tun / REUTERS (2013)

An annual initiative to raise awareness of food and nutrition security is the Global Hunger Index (GHI)*, a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally, regionally, and by country.

In 2016, Alliance2015 members in Cambodia conducted joint research into pesticide residues, resulting in the final research report “What is in Your Food?” that was presented to the Ministry of Agriculture.

ALLIANCE2015 MEMBERS

Focus: emergency response, disaster resilience, effective governance, civil society building, sustainable growth. CEO: Marie-Pierre Caley

www.acted.org Paris, France

Focus: rural development, inclusive and sustainable growth, health, protection, civil society and governance, emergency aid. CEO: Daniela Bernacchi

www.cesvi.org Bergamo, Italy

Focus: water and infrastructure, rural economy, environment and climate change, skills development and education, governance and peace. CEO: Melchior Lengsfeld

www.helvetas.org Zurich, Switzerland

Focus: freedom of expression, sustainable food, women’s rights, sexual rights and diversity, transparency and accountability, renewable energy. CEO: Edwin Huizing

www.hivos.org The Hague, The Netherlands

Focus: relief and development, human rights, social integration, education and information programmes. CEO: Šimon Pánek

www.peopleinneed.cz Prague, Czech Republic

Focus: rural development, sustainable food and nutrition security, emergency relief and rehabilitation. CEO: Dr Till Wahnbaeck

www.welthungerhilfe.de Bonn, Germany

Focus: emergency response, livelihood security, health and education. CEO: Dominic MacSorley

www.concern.net Dublin, Ireland

E-mail: info@alliance2015.org Website: www.alliance2015.org Twitter: @Alliance_2015

Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi 1551040 Brussels, BelgiumTel: +32 (0)2 235 23 25

ALLIANCE2015 MEMBERS WORK IN 87 COUNTRIES*

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operational project funding/working through partners

*Occupied Palestinian Territory

AFRICAAngolaBeninBurkina FasoBurundiCen. African Rep.ChadCongo Brazz.Congo DREthiopiaGhanaIvory CoastKenyaLiberiaMadagascarMalawiMaliMozambiqueNigerNigeriaRep. of S. AfricaRep. of S. SudanRep. of the SudanRwandaSenegalSierra LeoneSomaliaTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe

ASIAAfghanistanArmeniaAzerbaijanBangladeshBhutanCambodiaDPR KoreaGeorgiaIndiaIndonesiaKyrgyzstanLao PDRMongoliaMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaTajikistanThailandTimor-LesteUzbekistanVietnam

MIDDLE EAST AND N. AFRICABahrainEgyptIraqJordanLebanonLibyaOPT*SyriaTunisiaTurkeyYemen

LATIN AMERICABoliviaBrazilCosta RicaCubaEcuadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasNicaraguaPeruVenezuela

EUROPEAlbaniaBosnia-Herz.Czech RepublicItalyKosovoMoldovaRep. of MacedoniaRomaniaRussiaSerbiaSlovakiaUkraine

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Cover photo: Bipana Chaudhary of the landless Tharu community in Western Nepal plants vegetables in a dry river bed to make a living in the dry season. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation/Simon B. Opladen

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Alliance2015 is an NGO formally registered in the Netherlands, with an operations centre registered in Brussels. We are fully funded by our members, and governed by an Executive Board comprised of their CEOs. For more information on our governance and transparency, visit our website.