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  Economic Justice Network - Norwegian Church Aid
Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is an ecumenical organisation that is mandated by the churches of Norway and founded in the belief that all human beings are created in God's image as equals with the same basic rights and obligations.
Norwegian Church Aid works in a comprehensive way, through churches, church-based, faithbased an value-based organisations in order to save and protect lives, develop sustainable living conditions, and influence the attitudes and actions of the wealthy and powerful.
Norwegian Church Aid's mission is to manifest God's love in the world by challenging indifference, improving the living conditions of the poor and promoting basic human rights regardless of gender, political beliefs, religion or ethnic origin.
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  Norwegian Church Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is an ecumenical, independent development aid organisation.
Internationally, Norwegian Church Aid is an affiliated agency of the World Council of Churches (311 member churches counting 360 million members) and the Lutheran World Federation (106 member churches counting 60 million members).
In Norway, Norwegian Church Aid co-operates with churches and other non-profit solidarity organisations that are working to fight poverty and oppression and to alleviate suffering.
www.gm-unccd.org /FIELD/NGO/NCA/OP_NCA.htm   (184 words)

  
 NCA - Questions and answers about Norwegian Church Aid
Norwegian Church Aid calculates salaries for all employees at the main office as “administration”, including those working in the international department in Oslo.
Norwegian Church Aid does not run programmes to directly support individual children because we believe this can lead to dependence and because it rarely creates changes in local society.
Norwegian Church Aid is not party political, but engaged in work for suffering and suppressed people, regardless of the various political sides to a conflict.
english.nca.no /article/view/4239/?TreeMenu=112   (405 words)

  
 NCA - Norwegian Church Aid
Norwegian Church Aid is engaged in peace and conflictresolution and with communication to protect fragile conditions of peace.
Most of NCA's support in West Africa is concentrated in northern Mali, where the goal is to contribute to increased food production, a better management of natural resources, and to strengthen the local populations capability and possibility to govern their own future.
Norwegian Church Aid has channelled close to NOK 70 million to Europe this year, of which approximately NOK 60 million was reserved for the Balkans and the Kosovocrisis.
www.nca.no /article/articleview/1716/1/40   (1532 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Norwegian Church Aid is to send five aircraft to Darfur   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid is to send five aircraft to Darfur
Norwegian Church Aid is to send five aircraft to Darfur over the coming month in order to prepare its camps for the rainy season.
Norwegian Church Aid anticipated the onset of wet weather in good time, and has been preparing its camps across the province by building up their stocks for several months already.
www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=10287   (546 words)

  
 NCA - English - News -
Norwegian Church Aid has donated 140 000 NOK to assist the flooded regions of Zambia and Mozambique, and an engineer is now en route to Mozambique to assist the relief effort.
Norwegian Church Aid is working at full speed to coordinate relief aid through churches in troubled areas of Kenya.
Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is a non-governmental and ecumenical organisation that works to ensure the individual's basic rights.
english.nca.no   (368 words)

  
 Norwegian Church Aid Bringing Water to 70,000 in Haiti
Norwegian Church Aid is radically changing the face of daily life for thousands in Haiti through a wide range of ongoing and soon-to-begin projects including the construction of 40 wells providing water for 70,000 residents, women’s health activities, and HIV and Aids projects.
A total of ten million Norwegian Crowns (nearly $1.7m) will fund the first ten months of the project as the NCA sees through a comprehensive and integrated development project in Bel Air, a poor area in the centre of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.
Norwegian Church Aid has worked together with and supported Viva Rio’s projects in Brazil since 1999, notably on an integrated development project in six districts in Rio de Janeiro that promoted culture, health and education.
www.christiantoday.com /article/norwegian.church.aid.bringing.water.to.70000.in.haiti/10500.htm   (532 words)

  
 Norwegian church companions
The church has initiated innovations such as revision and experimentation in the liturgy, composition of new church music, new Bible translations and new hymnals.
Norwegian Church Aid is the country's largest non-governmental development agency.
The Stavanger International Church has a full range of congregational and outreach ministries, including Bible study and Christian education, youth activities and retreats, marriage enrichment, women's study fellowships, and congregational retreats and tours.
www.elca.org /countrypackets/norway/church.html   (493 words)

  
 NCA - English - About Norwegian Church Aid -   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid's logistics office is located in Oslo and serves both long-term development programmes as well as emergency relief operations.
Norwegian Church Aid's emergency preparedness division unload water purifying equipment sourced by the logistics office in Oslo.
Norwegian Church Aid became a well-known name in Norway at the end of the 1960's when Elias Berge led fundraising and aid work for Biafra, Nigeria.
www.changemaker.no /article/archive/450   (326 words)

  
 NORWEGIAN CHURCH AID, REGIONAL REPRESENTATION, SOUTH ASIA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
NCA presently has projects and partners in more than 70 countries on a wide range of development related topics.
The Coordination Office of NCA in Bangalore was established in February 1998 to assist His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Charitable Trust in effective planning and implementation of the Tibetan Refugees Programme.
NCA facilitates women’s access to resources and increases their participation in decision-making in a way that gives them development opportunities on their own terms.
www.indiabusinessonline.com /ncasa/nca.htm   (344 words)

  
 Squirrelmail
Through The Norwegian Human Rights Fund, the owner organisations want to give financial support to projects in low- and middle income countries where the human rights situation is particularly difficult, either in general or for specific groups of the population.
The Fund provides financial support to organisations that are not covered by other Norwegian governmental or non-governmental support schemes.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation is represented on the Board by an observer.
www.nhrf.no   (974 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Sudan: New wave of refugees expected
Norwegian Church Aid's emergency relief operation in Chad is one of the most challenging the organisation has ever faced.
As soon as Norwegian Church Aid became aware of the inhuman conditions under which the refugees in Chad were living, the organisation immediately sent experts to the region to assess needs.
Norwegian Church Aid also hopes to build and supply an entirely new camp in readiness for new arrivals.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6BZF8S?OpenDocument   (385 words)

  
 NCA - Norwegian Church Aid’s Lenten Campaign
Norwegian Church Aid chooses a different theme for the campaign each year, related to a specific area of NCA's work.
On March 11th 2008, Norwegian Church Aid is focusing its attention on those people that live in the shadow of war and terror.
In connection with this year’s campaign, NCA is drawing inspiration from its projects in conflict zones such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Iraq and Israel/Palestine.
english.nca.no /article/view/4136   (484 words)

  
 NCA - English - About Norwegian Church Aid - How we work -   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid wants to improve people´s possibilities to master their own life situation, and to contribute to changing the causes of suppression and poverty.
Norwegian Church Aid wants, together with our partners, to influence the attitudes of individuals, congregations and local societies, so that they meet their obligations to act for human worth and human rights.
Norwegian Church Aid wants to contribute to saving and protecting lives when people find themselves in a disaster situation.
www.changemaker.no /article/archive/475   (148 words)

  
 NCA - A career with Norwegian Church Aid?
Norwegian Church Aid’s headquarters in Oslo are the workplace to over 110 employees from around the world.
A career with Norwegian Church Aid is both challenging and rewarding.
Arild Isaksen heads Norwegian Church Aid's Emergency preparedness division.
english.nca.no /article/view/6406   (193 words)

  
 Norwegian Church Aid Intensifies War Against Aids   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It has dawned to organisations like Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) that it was not going to be effective to tackle development issues without factoring in the HIV/Aids ones.
NCA is a voluntary ecumenical organisation committed to helping people realise their basic rights through support from the Norwegian government and churches.
The organisations approach in its activities is to work with churches and other local organisations on emergency relief, long-term development and advocacy issues.
www.awcfs.org /aids15.html   (314 words)

  
 NORWEGIAN CHURCH AID, REGIONAL REPRESENTATION, SOUTH ASIA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid is an independent, church based aid organization, which was established in 1947.
NCA cooperates with NGOs and local governments to strengthen the capacity of civil societies to address the scourge of poverty and marginalisation.
Action by Churches Together (ACT) International is a global alliance of churches and relief agencies assisting thousands of people recovering.......
www.indiabusinessonline.com /ncasa?TreeMenu=191   (129 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Norwegian Church Aid remains in Muslim lands
Norwegian Church Aid has no plans to reduce or make changes to its working routines in Muslim countries.
This is a complex situation and the security of Norwegian Church Aid’s Norwegian personnel is under constant consideration.
Norwegian Church Aid enjoys good dialogue with and the strong support of Muslim partner organisations both at home in Norway and in the Muslim countries in which the organisation is active.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6LV8JU?OpenDocument   (226 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Norwegian Church Aid convoys raided again in Darfur   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid vehicles have been raided at gunpoint twice in a matter of weeks.
Norwegian Church Aid and other international aid organisations are preparing themselves the time when the people living in camps will be able to return home - but at the moment it seems as if this will take quite some time.
”Norwegian Church Aid is in active dialogue with the AU and with UN organisations in relevant areas on the subject of protection for the internally displaced persons.
www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=11700   (962 words)

  
 APP6.3.7
The changing relations described between NORAD and Norwegian NGOs could be repeated in the new relations between Norwegian NGOs and their partners, where the latter increasingly prepare and integrate evaluation plans as part of their own programmes.
The partners of Norwegian NGOs are said to be in the process of building their evaluation capacity, but there are so far few examples of southern NGOs being in control of the evaluation function or of Norwegian NGOs supporting such a move.
Norwegian NGOs are increasingly expected to measure and document results and impact, and some of the larger NGOs have tried to meet these expectations.
www.valt.helsinki.fi /ids/ngo/app637.htm   (2899 words)

  
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International and Afghan aid organisations and NGOs are increasingly looking to these, hitherto underexploited, groundwater reserves as a solution to irrigation and drinking water deficits during this time of drought.
Norwegian Church Aid have also funded two IAH members, Oddmund Soldal and David Banks, to work with the three Afghan NGOs during summer 2001, in order to develop a policy for rational use of groundwater during the drought and to avoid the worst excesses of overabstraction.
Norwegian Church Aid have thus agreed to sponsor the IAH membership of four hydrogeologists and water engineers from ADA, AREA and CoAR:
www.iah.org /News/2001/014.html   (469 words)

  
 Lutheran Church of Australia
Photo 1: During a week-long visit to earthquake-affected zones in Pakistan, Atle Sommerfeldt (left), general secretary of ACT member Norwegian Church Aid, visited tent villages that have been established to house people whose homes were destroyed.
Photo 2: During a week-long visit to earthquake-affected zones in Pakistan, Atle Sommerfeldt (second from left, with glasses), general secretary of ACT member Norwegian Church Aid, visited the Shohal Najaf tent village, 9 km from Balakot, where he met with earthquake survivors who are now living in temporary shelters in the village.
Sommerfeldt says of the man he is pictured speaking to: "This man told me that he had left his house after it was completely destroyed, and taken his family to the tent village.
www.lca.org.au /action/alws/pakistanphotos201205.cfm   (192 words)

  
 ACT Special Feature: World Water Day 2006
The Rural Agency for Community Integrated Development and Assistance (RACIDA), a partner organization of Norwegian Church Aid, one of the ACT members working in response to the severe drought conditions in Kenya, delivers desperately needed water to El Wak in northeastern Kenya.
ACT member HEKS (Swiss Interchurch Aid) and its local parter, Tanakra, are helping farmers dig "half moons," a traditional farming method for sloped land that gathers rainwater and prevents runoff.
The churches’ attention to water is spearheaded by the Ecumenical Water Network, which arose out of the WCC's working group on climate change.
act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2006/featurewater.html   (1025 words)

  
 Category - Norwegian Church Aid | Ekklesia
More than 70 percent of the world's population define themselves as people of faith, and faith-based organizations are involved in more than a quarter of care and treatment projects world-wide on HIV and AIDS, according to the head of a Geneva church-based advocacy group ‚Ä' writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International (ENI).
Somalia conflict is fuelling refugee crisis, says Norwegian agency
Conflict in Somalia is fuelling fears of a new refugee crisis, according to Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), a development agency with considerable experience in the region.
www.ekklesia.co.uk /tags/724   (164 words)

  
 ei: Gaza's Christian hospital critical   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Norwegian Church Aid has previously given support to this Anglican hospital in Gaza, and the organisation has now recognised that the situation demands a comprehensive humanitarian response.
Norwegian Church Aid is also deeply concerned that the current situation will lead to a further deterioration in relations between Israel and Palestine.
We urge Israel to adhere to international law both by ensuring that lifesaving equipment is allowed into Gaza, and by withdrawing immediately from Gaza and returning to the negotiating table.
electronicintifada.net /v2/article4972.shtml   (548 words)

  
 NCA - East Africa - Water network inaugurated
Norwegian Church Aid and partners met earlier this month in Machakos, Kenya to take part in the first conference for the Ecumenical Water Network-Africa.
The inaugural conference took place on 7th -11th November 2005 and was attended by over seventy representatives from church and church-based organisations from all over the world.
Here, children at Ushirika Primary School in Nairobi enjoy water provided by Norwegian Church Aid's water and sanitation project (Photo: NCAEA).
eastafrica.nca.no /article/articleprint/5537   (415 words)

  
 NCA - East Africa - Olav Hundvin in Kigali
His five and a half years of African experience were gained in Mali, where he initially worked for the Stromme Foundation, and later for Norwegian Church Aid.
Olav reveals that he is very much looking forward to getting deeply involved with partners in facing the challenges of HIV and AIDS, water and sanitation, emergency preparedness, and not least peace and reconciliation.
Projects supported by Norwegian Church Aid that work with the released prisoners of the genocide, their families, the victims and their families is perhaps the most important contribution the organization is making in Rwanda at the moment, he said.
eastafrica.nca.no /article/articleview/5388/1/500   (351 words)

  
 Global Alliance of Churches Reject Genetic Engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Action by Churches Together (ACT) International - the global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide - has developed a new ACT policy on GMOs.
In April this year, the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International took a stand on the issue, adopting a policy on genetically modified organisms to guide its members when responding to humanitarian disasters.
Melton Luhanga of Churches Action in Relief and Development, a member of the global ACT alliance, believes that it's important to have such a policy.
www.organicconsumers.org /2006/article_941.cfm   (2372 words)

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