Program
Cordaid has centered its work around 4 thematic sectors in different departments working with 10 programmes. In order to create cohesion within the core activities like strategic financing, linking and learning, lobby and the committment of the Dutch society Cordaid uses a programmatic approach, often leading to subprogrammes under one of the 10 umbrella programmes. These are the 10 umbrella pograms.
Participation
In many countries the basic civil rights of identity-based groups (being on the basis of ethnicity, religion and/or culture) are violated. These excluded groups are very often poorly organised and lack political clout. Society does not regard them as equal citizens. There...
Urbanisation brings with it pressure on basic services. Governments invest more in facilities for urban economic growth than in facilities in slum areas. The trend towards privatising basic services makes them much less affordable for the poorer inhabitants. This leads to...
Women and Violence worldwide
Worldwide one out of three women experiences violence.This includes systematic use of sexual violence against women as a means to engage in war or trafficking in women, domestic violence, women circumcision and honour killing. Violence agains...
Emergency Aid and Reconstruction
Disasters demand a rapid and adequate response. Acute emergency aid saves lives, but merely emergency aid is not an adequate response to natural disasters. These disasters are not only events that happen to people from outside. Natural disasters can rarely be controlled a...
Since the end of the Cold War there has been a sharp increase in internal conflicts. These conflicts often involve a multiplicity of contending parties and often have strong regional dimensions. The conflicts result in a high amount of victims and large-scale violation of...
Health and Well-being
In most poor countries the accessibility, affordability and quality of health care is limited. Relatively speaking poor families spend a high proportion of their income on health care and, because of the costs, are able to make less use of the supply. Women suffer most in...
Many people, because of their age, physical or mental limitations, are socially, economically and politically marginalised. This includes large groups of elderly people, children, people with a handicap or groups in which poverty has been handed down from generation to ge...
Poor people are more vulnerable to an HIV infection while AIDS again leads to long-term sickness, so that families become poorer and poorer. This has enormous consequences for the development of the people and areas affected. So AIDS is mainly a development problem. Inequ...
Entrepreneurship
Poor people who earn their living in the informal sector have no access to savings schemes, credit, insurance, investment capital and training aimed at increasing income security. Economically vulnerable people, in particular women, look for possibilities for improving th...
The income position and food security of small producers is under pressure. Competition on local and regional markets is increasing. Incentive measures for small producers are too limited. Fierce international competition and trade barriers, tariff agreements and quality ...