DR Congo 2024 - DRC HUM 2023-2025 RRM Founded in 1956, Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a well-established non-profit organisation currently operating in 40 countries.

DRC works to support refugees and displaced people, protect, and safeguard their rights and empowering them towards a better future, to realise DRC’s vision for a dignified life for all displaced. As a self-mandated protection agency, protection is at the core of DRC’s vision, mission, and operational and programmatic approach. Key commitments to a rights-based approach and adherence to the Humanitarian Principles underpin DRC’s work. DRC’s is working in five core sectors: Protection, Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), Shelter and Settlements, Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (HDP) and Economic Recovery. Humanitära enheten kommer under 2022 att ge stöd till Danska flyktingkommittén (DRC). DRC grundades 1956 och är en väletablerad organisation som för närvarande arbetar i 40 länder.
DRC arbetar med flyktingar och människor som befinner sig på flykt med fokus på skydd och rättigheter. Skyddsfrågan är kärnan i DRCs vision, uppdrag och operativa verksamhet. Rättighetsperspektivet och efterlevnad av de humanitära principerna ligger till grund för DRCs arbete. DRC:s arbetar inom dessa sektorer: skydd, bosättningar, humanitär nedrustning, fredsbyggande och ekonomisk återhämtning. This contribution aims to support DRC in selected humanitarian crisis where DRC will implement specific projects and where the organisation has a clear added value to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to crisis affected populations. Sida will support DRC's humanitarian interventions in five different crises in 2022, as well with capacity building in hard-to-reach areas and with protection outcomes. Sida will also fund DRC's immediate response to new crises or rapidly deteriorating situations through their rapid response mechanism (RRM).

Colombia (8 MSEK) - DRC will provide protection-oriented humanitarian assistance to conflict-affected individuals in the Telembí triangle in the Nariño department, and Catatumbo in the Norte de Santander department in north-eastern Colombia, where enduring cycles of violence take their toll on highly vulnerable civilians. The project will focus on the most vulnerable groups, such as persons with disabilities, children at risk, women at risk, indigenous and ethnic communities, displaced or confined populations. Furthermore, DRC will intervene in the prioritized geographical areas where a convergence between all humanitarian needs has been observed and where national institutions require complementary humanitarian action to their efforts.

Outcome: Protection and humanitarian needs of conflict-affected communities are addressed through a multisectoral emergency response.

Democratic Republic of Congo (10 MSEK)  The Danish Refugee council intends to carry out activities that prevent and mitigate protection risks, respond to urgent needs, and strengthen efforts to obtain more sustainable solutions. DRC will mobilise the skills and resources needed to ensure the resilience, safety, and dignity of conflict-affected people. Livelihoods through income generating activities (IGA) and cash for work will be supported through this project to ensure that communities and individuals have access to safe livelihood options. Livestock and agricultural support will be given to targeted beneficiaries to increase capacity of households to develop livestock and agricultural activities that will contribute to long term resilience. 5% of the total target beneficiaries will be selected among people living with disabilities.

Outcome 1: Communities affected by violence are better protected by timely and adapted responses to protection needs; the creation of a more protective environment; and linked to livelihoods for a more durable stability.

Outcome 2: The risk of negative coping mechanisms is reduced through livelihoods restoration activities for households living with protection vulnerabilities.

Ethiopia (12 MSEK) - DRC proposes a comprehensive response to strengthen the protective environment and resilience of displacement- and drought-affected communities in Liben, Sitti, and Fafan zones. The proposed intervention will incorporate both a protection response to prevent, mitigate and respond to the populations protection needs, and provision of multi-purpose cash to empower crisis-affected communities to cover their basic needs, protect further loss of livelihoods, and reduce negative coping mechanisms and protection risks. The target groups are the most vulnerable households, including pregnant and lactating women, female headed households, elderly headed households, households with a large numbers of dependents, and households with chronically ill members. Further, uses of financial or economic criteria will also be identified.

Outcome: Drought- and conflict-affected communities have an improved capacity to mitigate shocks and manage displacement-related risks, including their mitigation of protection risks, psychosocial needs, well-being, resilience, and ability to meet their household needs.

Iraq (10 MSEK) - The intervention will address the identified emergency needs through the provision of specialized services including legal aid, human rights case management, and individual protection assistance (IPA) for at-risk women and men. To enhance capacity for self-protection and resilience, DRC will conduct awareness raising and sensitization workshops on protection and rights, while GBV case management training will fill critical response capacity gaps. Additionally, DRC aims to enhance the capacity of socioeconomically vulnerable households in target communities to meet their basic needs through MPCA. DRC will target the most at-risk men and women (including out of camp IDPs and returnees) in conflict affected communities.

Outcome: Tailored protection services support at-risk individuals and respond to protection threats and violations for people living in protracted crises in Diyala and Salah al-Din.

Sudan (25 MSEK) - The proposed intervention contributes to addressing several objectives of the Sudan HRP 2022 including Objective 1: Provide timely multi-sectoral life-saving assistance to crisis affected people to reduce mortality and morbidity, Objective 2: Improve vulnerable peoples access to livelihoods and life-sustaining basic services, and Objective 3: Mitigate protection risks and respond to protection needs through humanitarian action. DRC aims to support a minimum of 48 114 individuals providing integrated assistance which meets critical emergency needs, and positioning capacity where response needs remain high yet consistently neglected.

Outcome: The humanitarian needs of crisis-affected populations are met and protection outcomes are improved with timely and dignified multi-sector assistance, reducing individual vulnerability and increasing community resilience.

Capacity support: Hard to reach (3 MSEK) - With the aim of protecting the most marginalized, DRC is committed to taking action to unblock this challenge, by committing to improve their ability to reach people who are most at risk and have the most urgent needs in emergencies and acute crisis, mainly, those living in hard-to-reach areas. DRC aims to have a reinforced and substantial humanitarian impact in terms of delivering protection and assistance through integrated sector assistance thereby leaving less people behind. Resources will enable systematic and comprehensive application of DRCs Humanitarian Principles Assessment Tool (HUMPRINT), strengthening DRCs ability to document and generate evidence related to humanitarian dilemmas, and ensure transparent principled decision-making in line with the humanitarian principles. Further, resources will be used to aid and advocate for principled approaches within UN Coordination structures. These efforts will contribute to both internal and collective efforts to ensure humanitarian principles are at the core of humanitarian work.

Outcome: DRC has strengthened organizational leadership and capacity to enhance access of the hard-to-reach (crisis-affected people) to protection and assistance

Capacity support: Protection outcomes (4.6 MSEK) - The overall objective of the project aims to strengthen DRCs capacity to provide strong, quality protection outcomes for people affected by crisis through strengthened management and use of data, analysis and evidence, accessible legal aid, improved market access. While also incorporating the use of CVA to provide life-saving protection and assistance, targeting criteria of country and regional level engagement. Country and regional level engagement for each component and project activity will be coordinated by the Project Manager to ensure complementarity and synergies between project components and activities.

Outcome 1: Contextualised and predictive analysis and data management capacity generating protection and assistance needs of crisis-affected people is enhanced in DRC

Outcome 2: Strengthened organisational capacity and engagement in the spheres of legal aid, MSA and CVA to address the protection and assistance needs of crisis-affected people.

Rapid response mechanism (RRM, 15 MSEK) - Sida will also allocate funds DRCs RRM aimed at responding to a sudden onset crisis or a rapidly deteriorating crisis within a 48-hour window. DRC currently receives such flexible emergency funding from Danida and Ole Kirk Foundation and therefore has adequate mechanism and structures in place to manage such funds. The emergency funds mainly target countries where DRC is already operational but can also be implemented in countries where DRC is not present. In countries with DRC presence, a situation analysis will be carried out, while a desk analysis may be carried out in countries without existing DRC presence. Emergency funding requests are initiated by the country offices and then reviewed by the HQ Emergency Unit to determine the eligibility of the proposed intervention. Emergency funding allocations should fulfil the life-saving criteria and be aligned to priorities in country Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans, where such are available. DRC strives for an area-based approach with multi-sector service provision.

In most emergencies DRC works with a combination of two or more of the following sectors:

• Protection

• Shelter and Infrastructure

• NFI distribution

• Food security

• WASH

• Camp Management and Camp Coordination (CCCM)

• Humanitarian Mine Action