Annual Report 2019
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2019 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2019 2,803 EMPLOYEES FROM 64 NATIONS WORKED IN 36 COUNTRIES AND OVERSEAS PROJECTS IN 2019. 499 WITH EUR MILLION IN FUNDING 221.6 WE SUPPORTED MILLION PEOPLE IN ORDER 10.5 TO ACHIEVE 1 GOAL, WHICH IS: ZERO HUNGER Interview With the Supervisory Board and Executive Board 6 WHAT Forecast for 2020: A Looming Food Crisis 50 WE WANT Welthungerhilfe’s Vision 54 Feature: We Had to Start Over 5 WHAT 2019: Highlights of the Year 8 Project Map 10 WE ACHIEVE Focus: Resilience to Climate Change 12 Somalia/Somaliland: Proactively Safeguarding the Harvest 14 Niger: Knowledge is Power 16 Haiti: Adapting for Survival 18 Tajikistan: Sustainability for the Future 20 Madagascar: How Forecasts Save Lives 22 Beneficiaries: Better Management with Better Data 24 HOW Transparency and Supervision 26 The Project Cycle: A Six-Phase Learning Cycle 28 WE WORK Politics: Understanding the Causes of Hunger 30 Activities and Cooperation: Fighting for a Just World 32 Thank you! A Message of Thanks to all our Supporters 52 This is how we Collect Donations 53 Welthungerhilfe's Organisational Structure 34 WHO Welthungerhilfe Foundation: Help that Lasts Forever 46 WE ARE Local and Global Networks 49 Balance Sheet 36 FACTS AND Income and Expenditure Account 39 Income and Expenditure Account in Accordance with DZI 41 FIGURES Welthungerhilfe in Figures 42 All Projects in 2019 44 Annual Accounts for Welthungerhilfe Foundation 48 PUBLICATION DETAILS Publisher: Conception and design hilfe; p. 16: Welthungerhilfe – CESVI; The DZI donation seal certifies Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e. V. muehlhausmoers corporate p. 17: Welthungerhilfe; p. 18: Daniel Welthungerhilfe‘s Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 1 communications gmbh, Cologne Rosenthal; p. 19: Welthungerhilfe; efficient and 53173 Bonn, Germany pp. 20, 21: Daniel Pilar; p. 22: Toni responsible Tel. +49-228-2288-0 Order number Haddad; p. 28: Nicolo Lanfranchi; handling of the funds entrusted Fax +49-228-2288-333 460-9589 p. 30: Welthungerhilfe; pp. 32, 33 t.: to it since 1992. [email protected] Matthias Jung; p. 32 c. l.: Matthias www.welthungerhilfe.de Photos Koltes; p. 32 c. r.: Welthungerhilfe; p. Cover, pp. 4, 5: Nadine Wuchenauer; 32 b. l.: Norbert Ittermann; p. 32 b. r.: carbon neutral Content Responsibility p. 6: Kai Löffelbein; p. 7: Daniel Pilar; Matthias Jung; p. 33 t. r.: Klaus Trenz; natureOffice.com | DE-339-JLCFM98 Mathias Mogge, Secretary General / p. 8 t.: Daniel Rosenthal; p. 8 b. l.: p. 33 c. l.: Welthungerhilfe; print production Chair of the Executive Board HIHFAD; p. 8 c. r.: Tommy Trenchard; p. 33 c. r.: Falco Peters Photography; p. 9 t. l.: AgriShare IG; p. 9 c. r.: p. 33 b. l.: private; p. 33 c. r.: Henrik Editors Philipp Brandstädter; p. 9 b. l.: Welt- Wiards; p. 34: Barbara Frommann, Evelyn Langhans (managing editor) hungerhilfe; p. 13 t., 3rd from t.: Welt- picture republic / Christoph Papsch, Rudi Laschet (photography) hungerhilfe; p. 13, 2nd from t.: Finn Welthungerhilfe; p. 35: Bundespräsi- Tönjes; p. 13 b.: Kai Löffelbein; p. 14: dialamt; p. 46: Imke Lass; p. 47: Thomas Rommel; p. 15: Welthunger- private; p. 52: Stefanie Glinski Welthungerhilfe’s “Tree graphic for NGO issues” is protected by a Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Because we value sustainability, this report is climate neutral and printed on paper sourced from FSC®-certified forests, recycled materials, and materials from controlled sources. By decision of the Bonn-Außenstadt tax office, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e. V., Bonn is recognised as serving exclusively and directly tax-advantaged charitable and non-profit purposes in line with §§ 51 et seqq. AO. The most recent annex to the corporate tax assessment dates from 18 June 2019 (tax number 206/5887/1045). The association is registered with the district court of Bonn (VR 3810). WE HAD TO START OVER Ilhan's family now lives from fruit and vegetable farming. Extreme weather forced the family to give up their herds and settle down in Somaliland’s north-western region of Awdal. Her parents are fighting for a new start in harsh conditions. Ilhan's hut in the settlement The Welthungerhilfe team provided emergency aid to of Ruqi is surrounded by a them and 8,000 other families. Ilhan's family then also barren landscape. Rainfall is received training in fertilisation and cultivation meth- growing less frequent, even as ods. The storm made clear how vulnerable the people the soil erodes and storms de- are to extreme weather (see pp. 14–15), with diluvian stroy the harvests. Ilhan and rainstorms striking unfortified land and washing the soil her family have lived through away. This could have been prevented by dykes or acacia many hard years. Since a pro- trees, which are well adapted to the dry environment, tracted drought claimed nearly but the trees had been chopped down in large numbers Ilhan Abdikani Sh. Omer 90 percent of local livestock, and sold for charcoal. the family has been forced to give up its traditional nomadic lifestyle to subsist on Now, however, villages are working with Welthungerhilfe agriculture. The 22-year-old helps her family cultivate to establish zones protected from overexploitation. In fruit and vegetables. The transition to farming life was 2019, this saved 700 hectares of forest from overgraz- hard, but they finally seemed to be back on track. Then ing and from deforestation for charcoal. Ilhan is facing tropical storm Sagar destroyed everything in 2018. the future confidently, with a new, solar-powered well “Our fields with their onions, watermelon, and oranges making her family's daily life easier and helping them on were completely washed away by the floods. The storm their fruit and vegetable farm. destroyed the irrigation canal that we shared with oth- ers. We had to start over”, says Ilhan's mother, Safiya Learn more at: Saleban Rageh. www.welthungerhilfe.de/multimediastory (in German) 6 | WHAT WE WANT What does COVID-19 mean for the fight against hunger overall? Marlehn Thieme: The pandemic will be devastating for food se- PROGRESS IN curity, especially in the Global South. Restrictions on the free- dom of movement have brought trade and transport to a halt, interrupting supply chains with far-reaching consequences for JEOPARDY people’s access to sufficient food. The economic recession will thrust more people into hunger and poverty, and we fear that the The global effects of the COVID-19 epidemic number of people going hungry will rise in the coming months. overshadow the achievements of the past year. COVID-19 is exacerbating problems that were already becoming overwhelming, like armed conflicts, poor healthcare systems, The progress made in the fight against hunger is in and droughts and other effects of climate change. jeopardy of being reversed as a result of the pan- demic, especially in the Global South, because the What kind of practical help can you offer on the ground? pandemic is hitting the poorest people the hardest. Mathias Mogge: All measures are geared towards local needs. The first priority was on providing instruction and on expand- ing our hygiene training, including through new approaches like a comic book that teaches children and young people about hygiene in more than 20 languages. Simultaneously, we facilitated a broad spectrum of aid measures through a relief fund, distributing soap and supporting quarantined families with food and cash transfers. Through their experience with the Ebola crisis, many of our employees were well prepared for the challenges they now face. In the coming months, the pri- A global crisis of this magnitude also poses a great challenge ority will be to restore people's livelihoods. We are putting for organisations. Were you prepared? together our first global programme to mitigate the effects of Mathias Mogge: Crisis management is part of our daily the coronavirus crisis while also creating opportunities for lo- workload, but this was the first time in the history of Welt- cal societies in order to better prepare them for future crises. hungerhilfe that we had to adjust our activities in all pro- ject countries and in Germany. Lockdowns in the pro- And in Africa, the catastrophic effects of COVID-19 are being com- gramme countries meant that many planned activities pounded by the locust plague. simply could not be carried on. It paid off that many pro- Marlehn Thieme: In Kenya, this is the worst devastation by lo- cesses and procedures had been digitalised during the custs in 70 years. When I was there in February, I heard about past two years. This allowed us to continue working to help the suffering this was causing from the farmers themselves. people in need, even under these difficult circumstances. People in other countries in eastern Africa are also being im- ANNUAL REPORT 2019 | 7 Left: New job opportunities: In Mali, Mathias Mogge learns about the professional education of young adults. Right: More efficient together: Marlehn Thieme meets with a cooperative of female cocoa farmers in Sierra Leone. mensely impacted by the locust swarms. This will exacer- sities for survival during the past year. We handed out bate hunger in many countries, because crops are failing bread, built bakeries and latrines, and distributed cash and animal feed is scarce. Here, too, the COVID-19 pan- and vouchers for people to purchase food, heating oil, hy- demic is intensifying an already difficult situation. giene supplies, and warm clothing. The past year was defined by the Fridays for Future movement. Are your donors not growing weary of all the crises world- What is the significance of climate change for Welthungerhilfe? wide? Marlehn Thieme: Climate change is having an alarming ef- Marlehn Thieme: We are all impressed and motivated by the fect on the global nutrition situation, destroying the pro- fact that our private and public donors are reliable and are gress that we have made in recent decades throughout the even now thinking about others in the world.