Cordaid International

How can lasting peace be built in fragile contexts? The ESPER programme believes the answer often starts at the community level, where citizens, authorities, security services and civil society work together. A new video looks back at ten years of this approach in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Following her recent visit to Afghanistan, Cordaid CEO Heleen van den Berg is urging the international community not to abandon the Afghan people. ‘We can do far more for Afghan women, men and children. So make better use of independent organisations like Cordaid.’

‘Hands off the International Criminal Court,’ the Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten said at the United Nations General Assembly. And rightly so. Because the foundation for world peace, the international rule of law, is at stake. This is something we must resist. And Cordaid does so by working towards a more connected world.

When Ebola returned to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo earlier this year, it struck communities already living through conflict and displacement. The outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, spread from Ituri into neighbouring provinces and Uganda. The DRC has recorded 7,773 confirmed cases and 3,759 deaths, according to government figures reported at ...

Following the recent escalation of violence in Yemen, Cordaid and its partner YWBOD have launched an emergency cash response to support families displaced by conflict along Yemen’s west coast and in western Taiz. As fighting nears the only road into Taiz city and international funding declines, aid workers report a population exhausted by war and fearful of another s...