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For the financial ANNUAL REPORT AND CONSOLIDATED year ended FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 28 February 2021 Husband and wife Chernor and Fatmata Barrie Front cover image: Wubit Abelo (23), from Addis were among the people in Sierra Leone to receive Ababa in Ethiopia, who participates in a project support from Trócaire after the Covid-19 pandemic supporting women who have lost income as a led to a loss of jobs and income. (Photo: Stephen result of Covid-19 restrictions. See page 26. Douglas) (Photo: Barnaby Skinner) Regina Koroma with daughter Zainab. Regina contracted Covid-19 and was helped by Trócaire partner Action for Advocacy and Development-Sierra Leone who delivered rice, cooking oil, onions and other staple foods to the family compound two weeks into their isolation. Photo: Stephen Douglas. OUR VISION & VALUES We are a social justice organisation working in partnership with local organisations and communities to tackle the root causes of poverty, injustice and violence. We support people to use their own power to create positive and lasting change. OUR VISION: OUR VALUES: We are working to create a fairer • Solidarity: we stand with the world’s most vulnerable, world where: amplifying their call for dignity, justice and equality. • the dignity and rights of all • Courage: we live with compassion and love, speaking truth to people are respected; power and acting boldly to achieve the rights of all. • the planet’s natural • Participation: we work in partnership with the communities resources are used we serve, supporting them to build a future where their sustainably and equitably; voices are heard, their hopes are valued and their rights are • people have control over respected. their own lives; • Perseverance: we are resolute in addressing the challenges of • those with power act for this age, never letting go of the struggle for justice and peace. the common good. • Accountability: we are honest, open, ethical and professional, respecting the trust placed in us by the communities we serve, our partners, and those who fund and support our work. Angelina Mhlanga is a 66 year old widow living with her three granddaughters. Drought has caused her family to go hungry.This year’s harvest only produced half of what the country needs. Over 5 million people, one in every three people in Zimbabwe are going hungry. Covid restrictions have made life harder. “The lockdown made hunger worse for us farmers. I sell goods to the local community but during the lockdown we couldn’t move around.” Photo: Ben Mahaka. TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION 1: WHO WE ARE How we bring about change 5 Message from the Chair of the Board 7 Message from the CEO 8 Our work at a glance 10 Where we work 12 SECTION 2: WHAT WE DO Goals for a Just World Goal 1: Human rights and democratic space 16 Goal 2: Equitable access to and use of resources 20 Goal 3: Women’s empowerment 24 Goal 4: Protection of human dignity in humanitarian crises 28 Goal 5: People and leaders in Ireland acting for a just world 32 Goals for a stronger Trócaire Goal 6: Innovation, learning and improvement 36 Goal 7: Effective partnerships 38 Goal 8: Increased scale and income 42 Goal 9: An accountable and effective organisation 44 SECTION 3: HOW We’re run Report of the Directors 47 Financial review 79 4 | How We Bring About Change Civil Society is strong and Institutions at all levels (locally, accountable, delivers effective nationally, internationally) are services, challenges norms and accountable to citizens, and advocatesSystems on behalf and of the most work to create a fairer and vulnerableprocesses and marginalised in more sustainable world. society.for efficiency Effective and Accountable Strengthened Institutions Civil Society Social Justice Empowered Sustainable Individuals Communities Individuals have the Communities are mobilised, resources, skills, knowledge effect change, engage their and confidence to secure leaders and can prepare for, their basic rights and live a respond to and recover from life of dignity. crises. Trócaire Annual Report 2020/21 | 5 HOW WE BRING ABOUT CHANGE As a social justice organisation, we believe that poverty is more than the absence of basic needs, it is the absence of opportunity, voice, power and control over one’s destiny. We believe real change can • Strengthening civil society be delivered only by working to challenge injustice and in partnership with local tackle poverty communities affected by poverty and injustice. • Influencing those in power to create a fairer and more Partnership means working with sustainable world. individuals, communities and local organisations to help bring We measure our impact against about the change they want to these four levels. see in their lives. Fundamentally, In Ireland, we work with partnership is about solidarity, communities north and south to respect and empowerment. educate, inspire and motivate We believe that to bring about people to take action in the change we must work at four name of global justice. different levels: Our work is funded by the Irish • Empowering women and public and institutional donors, men to secure their basic including the Irish government rights through Irish Aid. • Mobilising communities and engaging leaders to build sustainable and resilient communities 6 | Our Year in Numbers OUR YEAR IN 2.7M people NUMBERS supported 358 programmes 25 countries RESPONDING The Covid-19 pandemic impacted every TO COVID community and all of our programmes. Our response built on what we had learned from responding to Ebola in DR Congo and Sierra Leone. Working with our partners around the world, our response focused on: With Irish Aid funding, 426,383 • Information and public health campaigns individuals were reached with • Providing protective equipment support to mitigate the risks of • Installing handwashing stations and repairing Covid-19, including secondary water points • Providing cash assistance, vouchers, food impacts such as food insecurity and other emergency aid and violence against women. • Psychosocial support Trócaire Annual Report 2020/21 | 7 CoMPASSION IN ACTIOn – A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD 2020 was a year none of us will ever forget. The Covid-19 pandemic upended our lives in ways we never would have imagined possible. This is particularly true for people living in countries that lack the resources and infrastructure to protect their people from the awful health and economic consequences of the pandemic. The pandemic led to millions of are. Our response to this crisis people around the world losing must be global. Since this crisis their source of income. In the began, we have been reminded countries where Trócaire works, that nobody is safe until there are no social safety nets everybody is safe. We now must to protect people from that loss. ensure vaccines are available to For the poorest people in the everybody irrespective of wealth world, the reality is that if you or race. do not work, you do not eat. For We must also learn from them, the pandemic has made a this crisis and begin to face desperate situation unbearable. other global crises together. I am proud of how Trócaire Climate change, conflict and supporters – does to further the responded to the challenges displacement are global crises. cause of global solidarity. posed by Covid-19. Maintaining Wouldn’t it be wonderful if in the I would also like to acknowledge its programmes, and pivoting post-Covid world we faced these crises together and acted as one my fellow board members many of those programmes for their time and expertise to respond to the sudden for the betterment of all people and our planet? in helping to ensure the challenges faced, was and is not transparency, accountability and an easy task, but it is a challenge Pope Francis addressed the impact of Trócaire. I would also Trócaire teams around the world need for increased global like to thank my fellow Bishops are rising to. solidarity in his encyclical, Fratelli for their continued support for Tutti, released in October 2020: Trócaire’s work, as well as the Trócaire staff work every countless clergy, parishioners day to support the most “Solidarity means much more and communities around Ireland vulnerable members of our than engaging in sporadic who are the driving force behind society. Whether it is providing acts of generosity. It means Trócaire. medical care in Somalia or thinking and acting in terms working with local partners of community. It means that This annual report is testament to implement solutions to the lives of all are prior to the to the life-saving and enormous challenges such appropriation of goods by a few. transformational work being as displacement, violence It also means combatting the carried out on behalf of our and hunger around the world, structural causes of poverty, Church around the world. Trócaire teams are the living inequality, the lack of work, land embodiment of the Catholic and housing, the denial of social Church’s mission. and labour rights.” William Crean The pandemic has reminded As Chair, I am proud of the Bishop of Cloyne us of how interconnected we work Trócaire - our teams and Chair of the Board of Trócaire 8 | Message from the CEO MESSAGE FROM THE CEO This report looks back at the work of Trócaire from March 2020, the month the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global pandemic. Covid-19 brought unparalleled changes to every facet of human life, in every corner of the planet. I am immensely grateful for - the same time, they engaged and humbled by - the response in bilateral procurement of of our staff, partners, supporters, vaccines that drove the global governing body members and vaccine supply towards their donors. All of these individuals own countries. and organisations worked extremely hard to help Trócaire This left millions of frontline respond in support of those workers and highly vulnerable most affected by this global people in poor countries without pandemic.