Strategy
DRC’s strategy focuses our efforts on supporting people affected by conflict and climate-induced displacement so they can improve their situations and (re)build their livelihoods.
Strategic Programme Initiatives
The DRC Global strategy is setting a clear direction for the years ahead and strengthens our commitment to people affected by conflict and crisis. The strategy expresses DRC’s identity as a displacement-focused organisation with protection at its core,
Today’s humanitarian landscape is marked by rising displacement and declining funding. This is what the strategy responds to.
Together with a strong emphasis on local leadership and accountability, the strategy is built on our Response Framework and Global Theory of Change, and introduces three strategic pushes that will guide our work across countries and functions:
- Ensuring safety and dignity drives everything DRC does to protect displaced communities . We put protection, rights, and safety of displaced people at the center of everything we do, from emergencies to long-term solutions, from high-level advocacy with decision makers to day-to-day operations in humanitarian crises around the world. We do this because safety and dignity enable peoples' path to a hopeful future.
- Promoting self-reliance through DRC's alliances and expertise so displaced communities can rebuild their lives. We support displaced people to rebuild their lives and become more independent through access to livelihoods, employment, entrepreneurship, legal assistance, and financial services. We do this because helping people to become self-reliant as soon as possible is empowering.
- Anticipatory Action increasingly becomes a DRC signature approach that reduces harm to displaced communities. We will work with a combination of forecasting and early warning tools and models, local knowledge, and partnerships to anticipate risks, protect communities, and respond more proactively when early action is possible. We do this because acting early saves lives, time, and money.
This strategy belongs to all of us in DRC and will be translated into our programmes, operations, partnerships, advocacy, and daily decisions.
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