In 2007 Christian Aid Ireland and Irish Aid, the Irish Government’s programme of assistance to developing countries, entered a new phase of funding through the Irish Aid funded Multi-Annual Programme Scheme (MAPS) which further strengthens our capacity to support our overseas partners in their work to alleviate poverty.
This phase of the partnership provides multi-annual funding to Christian Aid over a five-year period between 2007 and 2011, enabling us to continue to provide vital support to countries where the consequences of bitter conflict have added to the burdens of poverty and inequality.
Former street boy gets skills training in Angola
Our work
Christian Aid has been supporting our partners’ work in conflict situations for many years and at different levels. At community level, we have focused on peace-building and reconciliation as well as concentrating on the causes of poverty and inequality which both exacerbate and are worsened by conflict.
Increasingly individual country programmes are also involved in advocacy and lobbying, either directly with partners, or in situations where this is too dangerous, on behalf of partners to change the national and global policies and structures that keep people poor.
New phase
With the Irish Aid support we aim to achieve Sustainable and Lasting Development in a Fragile World – this means Christian Aid’s Irish office works directly with Christian Aid Programmes and more than 50 partners in the seven countries named above.
Building on our existing expertise in the area of development in conflict and post-conflict countries, the programme continues our strong focus on working towards peaceful, long-term development.
But it also looks at the root causes of conflict - social and economic - and supports the building of secure livelihoods. This is because our experience has shown that conflict and poverty are inextricably linked.
The overall aim of the Christian Aid and Irish Aid partnership, therefore, is to create fair and just societies where poor communities can enjoy secure and sustainable livelihoods and realise their economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.
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Irish Aid funding - Expenditure Report 2010
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Irish Aid funding - Expenditure Report 2009
Irish Aid funding 2009
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Irish Aid funding - Expenditure Report 2008
Irish Aid funding 2008
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Irish Aid funding - Expenditure Report 2007
Irish Aid funding 2007
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Full financial accounts for year ended 31 March 2011
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Full financial accounts for year ended 31 March 2010
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