Concern Worldwide US Annual Report 2018 A MESSAGE FROM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER COLLEEN KELLY & BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR JOANNA GERAGHTY
On behalf of the Concern Worldwide US We are more inspired and committed than Tom leaves behind millions of people And today, we are there in a time of board and staff, we are proud to share ever to work toward the end of extreme across the world whose lives were unprecedented need with communities “The pages that follow include our 2018 annual report. In addition to poverty and hunger in our lifetimes. Many changed and saved through his generosity. in places like Syria, South Sudan, providing clear impact metrics and key will tell us it’s an impossible goal. We have We honor his legacy by emulating his Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of some of our results from 2018 — data points from the past year, it tells evidence to the contrary. In September relentless spirit to continue building Congo, and Haiti. the story of a vital global organization 2018, the World Bank reported that, a committed community and to make that has been driving lasting change, between 1990 and 2015, the extreme more of an impact wherever we are In this report, you will learn much more a year when Concern helped hand in hand with the world’s poorest poverty rate dropped an average of one most needed. about our work. Beyond an accounting communities, since 1968. After 50 percentage point per year – from nearly of our operations, it is the story of a 24.2 million of the world’s years, we are continuing a legacy of 36% to 10%. Over the last 25 years, Together, since 1968, we have been community that is building on half a relentless compassion and life-saving, more than one billion people have lifted changing the world. century of impact and innovation. poorest and most vulnerable life‑changing impact. themselves out of extreme poverty. The global poverty rate is now lower than it has Concern brought relief to war-torn Biafra, We are inspired by the prospect that the people lift themselves out of This is a commitment that is shared by our ever been in recorded history. World Bank saving millions of lives in the face of end of the story – the end of extreme community of partners and donors in the Group President Jim Young Kim calls it seemingly insurmountable odds. We went poverty and hunger – will not require United States. Individuals, institutions, and “one of the greatest human achievements into Bangladesh, working with people another 50 years. poverty and hunger.” government agencies alike have made a of our time.” We all have a vital part to play devastated by war and hunger. Remaining careful decision to invest in us. We value as we continue the global fight to end there now for more than 40 years, we’ve We thank you for your investment and the generosity and trust you place in us. extreme poverty and hunger. revolutionized maternal and child health. for being part of the Concern community. The pages that follow include some of our We were in Cambodia, helping a country results from 2018 – a year when Concern As our 50th anniversary year, 2018 gave crawl back from genocide while pioneering helped 24.2 million of the world’s poorest us a cause for celebration of shared microfinance as part of its emergence and most vulnerable people lift themselves accomplishment. It also gave us a from extreme poverty. out of poverty and hunger. We also challenge to do more for more people with responded to 66 different emergencies greater urgency and efficiency. Our goal is In places like Ethiopia and Malawi, we in 20 countries. to not be needed 50 years from now. helped create Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), a new 2018 was also the year that we lost model for the treatment of malnutrition Tom Moran, who, over the course of in children. It was adopted as a best more than two decades, provided the practice by the UN in 2007 and continues vision, boundless belief, and endless to save millions of young lives every generosity that propelled this organization year in more than 60 countries. We forward. Tom led the Concern community brought compassion, dignity, and safe from a small, bootstrapping agency to medical procedures to thousands of the dynamic, respected, and effective Sierra Leoneans during the West African organization that we are today. Ebola epidemic, ultimately stemming the disease’s spread. Colleen Kelly Joanna Geraghty Chief Executive Officer Chair, Board of Directors
Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report A Message from the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board CONTENTS 1968 2018
With no humanitarian or fundraising Over the course of 50 years, Concern experience – only a driving impulse to has grown into one of the world’s most act in the face of great suffering – a respected humanitarian organizations. group of young volunteers launched But we have never forgotten our roots. an ambitious fundraising campaign to Working with the most vulnerable people support relief efforts on the ground in the world’s poorest countries, we have Celebrating 50 Years 1 in Biafra. Tapping into the conscience responded to countless disasters and Who We Are and What We Do 3 of a nation that had itself suffered worked hand in hand with communities to Where We Work 5 the ravages of famine, their efforts rebuild, recover, and create lasting change led to the largest ever humanitarian for tens of millions of people in more than Our Programs 11 response mounted out of Ireland up 40 countries. Emergencies 13 to this time. It started with sending Livelihoods 16 shipments of relief goods to Biafra Health 19 channelled into the hands of Irish Education 21 people on the ground, including Integrated Programs 22 Aengus and Jack Finucane, who went on to build the organization that is A Milestone Year 27 now Concern Worldwide. How We Work 29 Remembering Tom Moran 31 Thank You 32 Our Supporters 33 Concern by the Numbers 35 Board of Directors 36
2018 Highlights Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan 7 CELEBRATING 50 Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey 9 Afghanistan, Bangladesh 23 In 1968, starvation in the breakaway state of Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Biafra, caused by war with Nigeria, reached Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone 25 truly catastrophic levels. When Biafra became the first famine to play out nightly on television screens around the world, a young YEARS Dublin couple named John and Kay O’Loughlin Kennedy decided they had to do something. Above: As a participant in Concern’s They gathered over 40 concerned people into graduation program in Cibitoke, Burundi, Violette Bukeyeneza started their apartment and began what would then a small business selling banana juice, be known as Concern Africa. earning enough to buy a goat. She now plans to convert her front room into a small grocery shop. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Concern Worldwide
Left: Bien-Aimé Marc Onel participated in six months of life skills training as part of the Building Hope and Opportunities in Haiti program. Formerly involved in anti- social activities, he says, “Concern Cover: Clotilde Ndayisenga (25) with her two-year-old changed my whole attitude to life. daughter, Arlene Akimana, at their home in Rugombo, I went from a negative person to Cibitoke in Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith a positive person.” Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide Above: The Columcille sailing from Dublin with a cargo of aid for Biafra on September 6, 1968. Photo: Concern Worldwide
2 CONCERN WORLDWIDE Aloys Murengrantwari; his wife, Marceline Nabagande; and their four-year-old daughter, Irihose, stand outside their home WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO in Burundi. A series of money transfers from Concern has enabled Aloys and Marceline to buy livestock and a plot of land where they grow beans, maize, and cassava and tend to their six goats. Aloys also received a bicycle from Concern that helps him run his small business fetching and selling water and vegetables. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Concern Worldwide
Our Identity – Who We Are Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Our Vision for Change We believe in a world where no one lives in poverty, fear, or oppression; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy, and creative life; and where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
Our Mission – What We Do Our mission is to help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives that last and spread without ongoing support from Concern.
To achieve this mission, we engage in long-term development work, build resilience, respond to emergency situations, and seek to address the root causes of poverty Our Core Values through our development education and advocacy work. Built on our history and the voluntary, compassionate commitment of Concern’s founders:
We focus on extreme poverty. We are We respond rapidly. People affected We are committed. We go the extra driven by a clear focus on eliminating by disasters are entitled to have their mile to support communities in times poverty in the most vulnerable places most basic needs met through rapid, of need and in the face of very difficult and responding to humanitarian crises. effective, and principled responses. operating environments. We believe in equality. People are equal We are courageous. Taking necessary We are innovative. Finding effective in rights and must be treated with respect risks, balanced with sound judgement, solutions requires innovative thinking and dignity. allows us to work in the most challenging combined with a pragmatic approach. contexts. We listen. Listening and partnership are We are accountable. Accountability key to empowering the poorest and most and transparency are central to all of vulnerable to transform their own lives. our actions and use of resources.
3 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Who We Are and What We Do 4 WHERE WE WORK
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Ethiopia Kenya 150,000 9,700 29,000 In Marsabit in northern Kenya, at least In Moyale in northern Kenya, we supported We worked in 21 villages in West Darfur in Republic of Sudan 81% of the population relies on livestock 9,700 asylum seekers displaced by the Republic of Sudan to enhance local as a main source of food and income. conflict in Ethiopia. By working with the communities’ ability to manage shocks Somalia When livestock was in danger of infection local business community, within two and stresses and improve their livelihoods. by Rift Valley Fever, we supported the days we sourced emergency household This integrated program reached over South Sudan Country Department of Agriculture, kits with supplies like jerry cans, kitchen 29,000 people directly through the Livestock, and Veterinary Services to utensils, and shelter materials. In two provision of clean water, training on vaccinate over 150,000 animals, which camps for the displaced, we also supplied agricultural techniques, distribution of both protected the herds from infection 18,500 gallons of water, built 72 pit seeds and livestock, and support to village and ensured their productivity. latrines, and managed waste disposal. development groups.
Above: A child flies a homemade kite on the streets of Juba’s protection 177,000 332,000 of civilians site in South Sudan. In South Sudan, we provided emergency Our emergency nutrition programs Photo: Steve De Neef shelter and non-food items, such as reached over 332,000 people across six kitchen utensils and jerry cans, to people regions in Ethiopia with a combination Left: A Concern team member living in protection of civilian sites as well of food distributions, child malnutrition prepares for a food distribution as to people who were newly displaced prevention and treatment, education on organized by Concern in Juba, and returning to their home areas. We preparing nutritious meals, training on South Sudan. reached over 177,000 people in 2018 good hygiene practices, and providing Photo: Steve De Neef with these essential supplies. safe water. 43,400 Republic of Sudan Over 43,400 people attended cookery demonstrations in Tigray, Ethiopia to learn how to improve dietary diversity and nutrition for their families. Ethiopia South Sudan
Somalia 85,600 Kenya In Somalia and Somaliland, we reached just over 85,600 people through our health and nutrition interventions. This included providing over 51,000 out- patient consultations, performing 5,000 antenatal check-ups, and immunizing over 1,300 children.
SOMALIA KENYA ETHIOPIA SOUTH SUDAN REPUBLIC OF SUDAN Over 576,000 people reached Over 4.2 million people reached Over 2.4 million people reached Over 698,000 people reached Over 2.1 million people reached
7 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report 2018 Highlights Ethiopia - Kenya - Republic of Sudan - Somalia - South Sudan 8 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
Syria 998 31,600 Turkey Iraq In Syria, we targeted 998 vulnerable In response to the needs of Syrian Lebanon farming households with vouchers refugees living in informal tented Iraq to enable them to buy agricultural settlements in Lebanon, we worked across Turkey supplies such as seeds and fertilizers. 22 of the most vulnerable settlements, Lebanon Syria As a result, farmers were able to reaching over 31,600 people. We built increase their harvest. Overall, the 115 latrines, supplied safe water to over estimated average yield increased 10,000 people, and carried out hygiene by nearly 1,900 pounds from the training, reaching 3,000 people per month. previous year.
Khadija* (42), a mother of three, is a Syrian refugee living in northern Lebanon. She was very happy in her town in 1,200 southern Syria before the conflict broke In Iraq, we reached over 1,200 Syrian out. In fact, she wants everyone to refugee children and their caregivers know that Syria was a nice place to be through our protection program, which before the war. provides child-friendly spaces and psycho- social support. Here, children – many of Her most treasured possession is the whom have lost family members, been key to her home in Syria. subjected to domestic violence, and/or been displaced several times – are able “I may have lost my home, but my keys are to play, learn, and make new friends still with me,” she says. “I aim to go back in a safe and caring environment. to Syria someday, rebuild my home, and use the same keys.” *Name changed to protect the identity of the individual. 375 Photo: Jason Kennedy / Syrian refugees Alya* (5) and her cousin Concern Worldwide Employment opportunities for Syrian Sultan* (4) sit together in the home they refugees living in Turkey are limited and share with their extended family in what jobs do exist are often irregular, low northern Lebanon. The house has been skilled, and low paying, forcing families refurbished by Concern. to live in extreme poverty. We supported 375 Syrian refugees with language *Names changed to protect the identity of training, vocational skills development, and the individuals. assistance with work permit applications Photo: Mary Turner / Panos Pictures to enable them to enter the formal labor market and become self-sufficient.
SYRIA/IRAQ LEBANON TURKEY Over 943,000 people reached Over 128,000 people reached Over 52,000 people reached
9 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report 2018 Highlights Turkey - Lebanon - Iraq - Syria 10 Boli* and Mohamud* at a refugee camp for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s OUR PROGRAMS Bazar, Bangladesh. *Names changed to protect the identity of the individuals. Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide
In 2018, Concern reached approximately 24 million people in 25 of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. Our work spans five main areas: emergencies, livelihoods, health, education, and integrated programs. Our broad program goals, objectives, and some illustrative examples of our work in each area are described in the following pages.
24 million people 25 countries
11 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Programs 12 11.6 million people million 11.6 EMERGENCIES 20 countries In 2018, we responded to 66 emergencies in 20 countries, reaching over four million people directly and 7.6 million indirectly, six million of whom were female.
Many of the countries we work in are Some of our achievements susceptible to frequent natural disasters in 2018: and outbreaks of conflict, resulting in Respond rapidly in order to save already vulnerable people losing their lives and reduce suffering Above: A healthy meal prepared homes and livelihoods. In the immediate In late August, the Democratic People’s by the lead mothers of Concern’s aftermath of an emergency, we provide Republic of Korea suffered the nutrition program at the protection of life-saving support to families and devastating effects of Typhoon Soulik, civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu, South communities and we then work alongside which hit communities that were already Sudan. Photo: Steve De Neef them to get people back on their feet, vulnerable. In North and South Hwanghae rebuilding livelihoods and infrastructure provinces, over 10,000 people were Top Right: Anna George (39) sits and working to reduce the risk and affected. We responded to the immediate inside her home at the PoC site in impact of future crises. needs in North Hwanghae by supplying Bentiu with her sons Malech Jal over 1,700 hygiene kits along with (16), Chieng (3), and Bijiek (11) and Objectives and activities water tanks, blankets, and warm clothes her nephew Gien Gal (5). Chieng The goal of our emergency program is for children. In addition, we provided Above: Food preparation (pictured in the photo at bottom to fulfill our humanitarian mandate to approximately 2,000 children in 45 inside a communal shelter right with his mother) was suffering respond effectively to and mitigate against childcare institutions with rice, soybeans, at the PoC site in Bentiu. from edema and was diagnosed natural and human-influenced disasters. and dried vegetables over a three-month Photo: Steve De Neef as severely malnourished. He was period. admitted immediately into Concern’s We aim to: nutrition program. His edema was so An outbreak of Ebola took hold in several severe that he was also referred for Respond rapidly in order to save parts of the Democratic Republic immediate medical care in a health lives and reduce suffering of Congo in 2018. The first outbreak center. Photo: Steve De Neef occurred in Mbandaka in the northwest of Improve access to food, healthcare, the country, followed by another in North and water Kivu and Ituri Province, where cholera Prevent and reduce the impact was also present. Concern responded of emergencies to the situation in North Kivu by training
13 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Programs Emergencies 14 360 health workers on how to diagnose an already fragile food security, nutrition, and Aweil North counties to improve their LIVELIHOODS and treat suspected Ebola cases and and health situation. In response, capacity to manage events like these. delivering hygiene kits to approximately we established emergency health Over 1,240 members of agro-pastoral 27,300 people. In addition, we reached and nutrition services for host and field schools were trained to train others almost 62,000 people with messaging displaced communities. in climate-smart agriculture and how to about the risks of Ebola and cholera. manage natural resources better. We Across 70 villages, we screened over also supported the establishment of 13 In July, En Nahud, a town in West 27,000 children under the age of five for community resilience planning committees Kordafan in the Republic of Sudan, was acute malnutrition and made referrals to that are responsible for analyzing the main hit by flash flooding that destroyed homes health centers for care as needed. We hazards facing their communities and and badly affected people’s livelihoods, also drilled eight boreholes to provide drawing up plans to mitigate the risks. with farmland and livestock lost to the clean, safe drinking water to over 4,000 In 2018, we improved the Objectives and activities Some of our achievements floods. Overall, 23,800 people were people and trained community volunteers In Cité Soleil in Haiti, family emergency food security and livelihoods The goal of our livelihoods program in 2018: affected. Concern was the first agency to conduct hygiene awareness campaigns plans were drawn up with 940 of approximately 1.5 million is to enable extremely poor people to to respond, getting emergency supplies with 2,000 households. households to help them cope in an have secure livelihoods. Reduce hunger to the stricken community within three area prone to disasters and risks. people directly and three In Sierra Leone, where the days. We also ran health and hygiene In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, we Three emergency intervention teams in million indirectly. Of these, We aim to: repercussions of the 2014 Ebola awareness campaigns and carried out worked with over 25,000 households to three neighborhoods were created and outbreak continue to affect livelihoods, 2.3 million were female. Reduce hunger preventative measures such as disinfection reduce incidences of acute malnutrition in members were trained on disaster risk we worked with over 4,000 of the most and chlorination. This helped ensure that children under five. We also rehabilitated reduction so they are better prepared People living in extreme poverty struggle Strengthen our social protection vulnerable households to help improve there were no incidents of waterborne 22 springs, built 23 roof-water harvesting when the next emergency happens. to earn enough to ensure that their programming, work skills, and food production, reduce post-harvest diseases, which often occur after flooding systems, and constructed five pipelines, families have enough to eat and get support systems food loss, and increase income. Some incidents and can result in high rates of which gave over 85,600 people access adequate healthcare and an education. 685 new beneficiaries joined the Promote graduation to economic illness and death. to clean water to help prevent disease. In Our livelihoods program aims to give them program in 2018. We also established productivity addition, we strengthened the capacity the tools to ensure they are able to earn and trained nine new farmer field school Improved access to food, healthcare, of district health staff to spot and treat a sustainable living, helping them to learn Strengthen our climate-smart groups to improve farming practices. and water malnutrition by training 64 health workers new skills, improve the productivity and agriculture program Additionally, we built or rehabilitated In Bangladesh, the Rohingya refugee and a further 113 health extension nutritional value of their crops, and set up eight grain stores, installed five rice- crisis continued to be the focus of our workers. Mika Abdu (37) cultivates zucchinis, small businesses to generate more income. milling machines, completed 13 culverts, emergency programming. Across nine amaranth, and cabbage in several and rehabilitated 11 miles camps, volunteers screened approximately Prevent and reduce the impact vegetable sacks in his backyard in of road to link farmers to traders. 49,500 children under the age of five for of emergencies Sabon Kalgo in Tahoua, Niger. The sacks signs of severe malnutrition every month, In Akkar, Lebanon, we responded to require only a limited amount of water Through a range of projects including admitting over 6,140 to our outpatient multiple fires in five informal tented cash for work, seed distributions, clinics, where we achieved a cure rate of settlements that are home to thousands for leafy vegetables to grow all year agricultural training, and animal disease 97%. of Syrian refugees. Fifty-six tents and 300 round. “I wasn’t used to growing plants control, over 10,600 vulnerable people inhabitants, including 160 children, were in a sack – it was new to me,” Mika said. in Afghanistan are now better able to In Kirundo, Burundi, a combination affected. Recognizing the ongoing risks “But it’s only now when I see what has earn a living. of factors have led to high levels of from fire, we have provided equipment been produced that I understand. I now malnutrition in children, with approximately and training to vulnerable families. realize that what Concern has done for For people aiming to improve their 8,000 households affected. Concern us is something good. It provides us livelihoods, not being able to reach supported over 3,200 households with In Pakistan, 136 million people – 40% of larger markets to buy and sell seeds malnourished children, ensuring they got the population – are exposed to natural with additional food to eat.” and produce can be a significant immediate, high-quality treatment. We then hazards due to a combination of climate Photo: Darren Vaughan / barrier. To help overcome this, in the provided cash payments to these families change, poor governance, and weak Concern Worldwide Central African Republic, we to help them meet their basic needs. infrastructure. In South Punjab, we are rehabilitated 30 miles of roads as well building the capacity of 75 villages and as three bridges, which improved access Over 98,000 people affected by conflict seven union councils at the government to both markets and health services in the Central African Republic received and community levels to reduce their for remote communities. The roads assistance through our emergency risk of disaster. The program reached were built by 1,100 people through a programs. In Kouango sub-prefecture, we nearly 400,000 people in 2018. Activities cash-for-work program that allowed supported over 32,700 people who had included developing disaster management participants to buy basic necessities been displaced or who had returned to the plans; forming and training emergency such as food and medicine. area to help them rebuild their livelihoods. response teams; constructing 300 This included some 3,000 households that disaster-resilient handpumps, 56 water We supplied over 1,900 households in received seeds or took part in seed fairs facilities, and latrines in communal the Democratic People’s Republic of and had training on improved agricultural shelters; and delivering 400 training Korea with vegetable seeds, pesticide techniques. A further 1,000 households sessions on climate-smart agriculture and sprayers, plastic sheets, and shovels to received fishing kits that included nets, conservation agriculture. make kitchen gardens. Between April buckets, weighing scales, and other items. and October, each household produced Climate change and sudden shocks an average 770 pounds of vegetables. An ongoing crisis in the Lake Chad such as flooding or drought can have a Basin continues to cause mass catastrophic effect on already vulnerable population displacement within Chad people. In South Sudan, we are working and neighboring countries, exacerbating with almost 90,000 people in Aweil West
15 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Programs Livelihoods 16 4.5 million people million 4.5 Strengthen our social protection Our graduation program in Malawi, now programming, work skills, and in its second year, has made a significant support systems impact on its participants. The households In our urban programs in Bangladesh, involved in the program have seen an over 1,220 households were provided appreciable decrease in poverty levels. with training in a range of skills to enable They have been able to send their children them to start small businesses and were to school, buy livestock, improve their then provided with cash grants to set homes, eat a more varied diet, and start them up. Program participants became saving money. We reached over 23,190 members of a community savings system, people through this program in 2018. which improved their ability to manage savings and make sound investments, Strengthen our climate-smart helping them to look forward to a more agriculture program secure future. Our livelihoods program in Somaliland reached 2,180 of the most vulnerable Opportunities for paid work for Syrian people, which included female-headed refugees in Lebanon are limited – households, unemployed youth, drought- they are allowed to work in only three prone farmers, and marginalized groups. sectors: construction, agriculture, and the We trained farmers in climate-smart environment. We supported nearly 5,000 agriculture and provided seeds and tools. people to earn a sustainable income by We also established self-help groups and helping them to establish small businesses equipped them with the start-up grants such as cheese-making and carpentry and the skills they needed to create their and to learn new skills that can be used in own small businesses. Eight of these the future. Most of the income they earn groups have increased their income to is spent in local shops and businesses, over $74 per month. thereby benefiting the economy of the whole region. In Chad, where the effects of climate change – including erratic rainfall patterns, In five districts in Syria, we are working droughts, and flash floods – have been with vulnerable conflict-affected devastating for the most vulnerable communities both to address their people, we set up environmental immediate food needs and to increase committees in 26 villages. These their opportunities to find work. We committees spread messages about how reached over 38,500 people in 2018. to protect the environment to an estimated Food vouchers were distributed to over 1,200 people in their communities. We 3,900 households, 1,874 families took part also trained six groups of women to in cash-for-work projects, and 489 people construct fuel-efficient stoves that use received vocational training in activities less firewood and therefore place less such as carpet weaving, sewing, and pressure on the environment. mobile phone repair. The impact of climate change continues Promote graduation to economic to be a threat in Liberia, with the rural productivity poor being particularly vulnerable. We Over 3,000 households in Burundi and a supported 30 small-scale farmer groups further 1,300 in Rwanda were supported with gardening tools, seeds, and hands-on through our graduation program, which training about climate-smart agriculture supports extremely poor people to learn a in order to establish demonstration plots range of skills, gain knowledge, and take so they could test different farming part in activities that increase their capacity techniques and choose the one that would to earn a living and move out of poverty work best for them. and hunger. Meresiyana Cimpaye (40) at her home in Cibitoke, Burundi proudly In a survey conducted in 2018, the number shows the plates, bowls, and cutlery of months that families taking part in the she bought with the profits from the program that suffered a “hunger gap” business she started with a cash – the number of months in which they transfer from Concern. struggle to meet their minimum daily food requirements – decreased in Rwanda from Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith 3.91 in 2017 to 2.31 in 2018. In Burundi, that number decreased from 4.02 in 2017 to 2.41 in 2018.
17 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Programs Livelihoods 18 HEALTH Some of our achievements Strengthen health facilities Improve access to clean water in 2018: In Sudan, we worked to improve the and sanitation health systems providing basic health We provided four gravity-fed water Prevent undernutrition and and nutrition services to vulnerable systems on cooperative farms in the extreme hunger communities in the Jebel Moon and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Concern is recognized as the leading Kulbus localities. Activities included which gave over 5,000 people access technical agency around Community technical training for health workers, to safe drinking water as well as water Management of Acute Malnutrition financial support for staff from the local for cleaning, washing, kitchen gardens, (CMAM) in Niger, where malnutrition health authority to enable the health and livestock. The new water systems is persistent due to a range of causes. In centers to function, and training for lead have made a significant improvement to Tahoua district, we provided support to mother/mother support groups about peoples’ livelihoods and decreased the In 2018, our health programs 42 health centers, 21 health posts, and how to manage malnutrition as well as prevalence of disease. reached over 9.2 million people, two intensive nutritional rehabilitation best practices around feeding infants and nearly three million of whom centers to increase the skills of health young children. We directly reached over In Bannu in northwest Pakistan, we workers around malnutrition. At the 125,000 people through this program in reached nearly 10,500 people were direct beneficiaries. Five community level, over 18,700 mothers 2018. who were either temporarily displaced million were female. across 201 villages were trained to spot by ongoing conflict or who were host the early signs of malnutrition, and radio Our community-led approach to health community members with improved The communities we work with around messages about good health practices improvements in Sierra Leone has access to clean water and knowledge the world are often unable to get the were broadcast throughout the year. An been successful in giving ownership about good hygiene, nutrition, and help they need to prevent suffering from estimated 706,400 people benefitted from and joint responsibility for projects to sanitation. As the program drew to a undernutrition and preventable diseases. this program, 64% of whom were under the community. In Tonkolili district, we close, our endline survey showed that To help overcome this, we work with local the age of five. trained 50 traditional healers, 100 access to clean water had improved from and national governments to strengthen influential women, and staff in 25 health 3 to 4.5 gallons per person per day, with healthcare systems and increase access In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, over facilities on the prevention and treatment 100% of respondents being satisfied to good healthcare, nutrition, and water 3,000 women were given seeds, tools, of malaria. Prior to this project, traditional with the quality of and access to water. and sanitation services. and training to practice backyard healers and health unit staff were in Handwashing with soap at critical times gardening so they could diversify both their competition to provide treatment for increased from 8% to 89% and there was Objectives and activities own diet as well as that of their children’s malaria, but they now work together and a noticeable decrease in the prevalence of The goal of our health programs is to to prevent malnutrition. The resulting there has been a steady increase in diarrheal disease from 83% to 8%. contribute to the achievement of health vegetable and fruit plantations covered the number of people visiting the and nutrition security for poor people. over 1,200 acres of land and yielded a health units for treatment. In 12 districts of northeast Syria, we wide variety of produce, including swiss reached over 360,000 vulnerable people We aim to: chard, carrots, beets, mung beans, and Despite working in very difficult through a water, sanitation, and health Prevent undernutrition and bananas. circumstances due to security and program. This included rehabilitating and extreme hunger logistical challenges in the Central monitoring 15 water supply systems, Strengthen maternal and child health African Republic, there has been rehabilitating four sewage systems, Strengthen maternal and child health In Chad, where there is a strong socio- good progress in improving health, conducting environmental health Strengthen health facilities cultural barrier to giving birth at a health nutrition, and hygiene behaviors in campaigns, trucking emergency water to clinic or bringing sick children to receive the communities where we work. In four camps, and installing 444 water tanks Improve access to clean water treatment, we conducted training Lobaye, trained community health and 145 latrines in 13 camps and centers. and sanitation for health center workers on how to volunteers taught good hygiene practices manage childhood illnesses better and to nearly 9,300 people. A final survey in gave awareness training to traditional birth 2018 showed that among those surveyed, attendants and community leaders about 87% carried out at least one improved the importance of people using hygiene practice compared to only 46% at the clinics. The results of an annual the beginning of the project. Handwashing household survey showed that behavioral with soap, vital for helping to stop the changes are happening – 38% of people spread of disease, increased from 20% to now take their child to a health center almost 50%. within 24 hours of that child becoming sick with fever, an increase of 16%.
Jacqueline brought her daughter The way in which babies and young Faith (18 months) to Makuru children are fed for the first two years Health Center in Kenya where of their life has a major impact on their she was screened, diagnosed as future well-being. Our urban programs malnourished, and received treatment. in Bangladesh are designed to improve health, hygiene, and nutrition to combat Photo: Jennifer Nolan / malnutrition. Among our program Concern Worldwide 9.2 million people participants, we have seen an increase from 37% to 67% of young children who are being exclusively breastfed because of our education 21 countries and awareness training.
19 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Programs Health 20 EDUCATION INTEGRATED PROGRAMS
In 2018, our education programs In 2018, we reached approximately In Liberia, where 32% of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition, directly benefited almost 350,000 3.5 million people directly through we are working with 120 communities people and 372,000 indirectly. our integrated programs and 6.5 to reduce levels of childhood illness and Over 360,000 were female. million indirectly. Over 4.7 million death. In 2018, we reached over 14,500 were female. people directly through projects that Concern’s work in primary education included training 91 groups of mothers is grounded in the belief that all children Communities and individuals often remain and caregivers about nutrition as well as have a right to education. We believe locked in extreme poverty due to multiple supporting kitchen gardens, establishing that education is one of the best routes interconnected factors. For that reason, 58 savings and loans associations, out of poverty and we integrate it into many of our programs are integrated, constructing 43 handpumps (with another both our development and emergency bringing together, for example, agriculture 25 underway), and establishing and work to give extremely poor children more and livelihoods with other sectors like training 68 village committees on opportunities in life and to support their Schoolgirls and their teacher water, health, and education to tackle the sustainable management and use overall well-being. in class at a Concern- the multiple needs of a community in of water resources. supported school near a coordinated way. Objectives and activities Mogadishu, Somalia. In Northern Bahr el Ghazal in South 10 The goal of our education program is Objectives and activities Sudan, we are working to improve to improve the lives of extremely poor Photo: Marco Gualazzini The goal of our integrated programs the health and nutrition of vulnerable children in a sustainable way by increasing is to improve the lives of the extreme women and children through integrated their access to quality primary education. poor by addressing their needs in a programs that focus on health, nutrition, million holistic way and tackling the interrelated and livelihoods as well as building We aim to: barriers that impede development. community resilience to shocks such as flooding and erratic weather. In 2018, the Increase school access Some of our achievements program reached over 250,000 people Improve learning outcomes in 2018: with activities that included supporting of the population is illiterate, and of circumstances is paramount. In 2018, In Cité Soleil, a marginalized urban area 49 health facilities with nutrition services Improve school facilities people those children who do attend primary we provided access to quality education to in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, gang violence, and training for Ministry of Health staff Provide access to education school, only 39.5 % go on to secondary over 7,230 children in 25 schools and built conflict, and a lack of opportunities on Community Management of Acute for children in emergencies school. Working through a network of 13 extra emergency classrooms as well as combine to keep people locked in poverty. Malnutrition as well as infant and child communities, 205 girls in 20 project 17 separate boys’ and girls’ latrines. Our program to create opportunities and nutrition. We also established mobile units schools were assisted in 2018, 86% of to tackle conflict reached almost 10,000 to get to remote communities, which were Some of our achievements whom went on to secondary school or to a Provide access to education for people, including 400 who completed able to treat over 16,000 children who in 2018: vocational training center. children in emergencies life skills training to help them either otherwise might not have been reached. Eighty percent of Syrian refugee start their own business or to enter a Increase school access In Mogadishu, Somalia, we supported children living in Lebanon aged three vocational training program. Around 240 We directly reached over 22,000 Promoting quality education requires quality primary education to over 5,500 to five as well as 77% aged 15 to 17 gang members and eight neighborhood vulnerable Syrian refugees in three a number of factors present at the children. Together with the Ministry of are not enrolled in school. Our non- committees received training on peaceful target locations in Turkey through community level, including having a school Education, we provided training for 196 formal education programs reached over conflict management and a further 181 our protection program, which helps close to home to encourage parents teachers and 35 education committees 3,000 children, giving them the relevant young people took part in training on them better manage the burdens to send their children, especially girls. in a number of areas, including lesson and necessary education to prepare behavior change. of life as a refugee. The program includes In Takhar Province in Afghanistan, we planning and positive class management them to enter a formal school for the psychosocial support, information established or supported 31 community- techniques. We also procured and first time and to prevent students from Our emergency response program across sessions for refugees about their based schools and 32 literacy classes distributed 5,000 Somali-language dropping out. five regions of Somalia/Somaliland rights and obligations, and referrals to for women, built or renovated separate reading books and over 28,000 primary provided a fully integrated response additional services. In 2018, we also latrines for girls and boys, and recruited or school syllabus textbooks. In Turkey, our emergency education to drought, floods, and displacement, began implementing a protection support supported 63 teachers, reaching almost program continued to fill gaps and reaching almost 186,000 affected people. program for out-of-school children and 6,500 children, women, and men in 22 Improve school facilities support Syrian children to receive an Life-saving help for internally displaced others at high risk of dropping out to villages. A deteriorating humanitarian and education. The provision of teaching people and other marginalized groups ensure they were better equipped from security situation over the last three materials, cleaning supplies, and furniture included providing cash payments to buy a well-being perspective to enter the Improve learning outcomes years in neighboring Chad and Nigeria to three temporary education centers food; household items to improve shelter Turkish school system. Over 300 children Our education program “Let Our Girls has resulted in over 252,000 displaced helped ensure that almost 1,700 children and hygiene; access to clean, attended a 12-week course covering Succeed” supported girls in Marsabit people fleeing to the Diffa region of were able to receive a good, quality safe water; emergency education services areas such as identity, stress management, County in Kenya to stay in school Niger to seek refuge. Providing a safe education in a safe place. for their children; and the provision of interpersonal relations, and rights and beyond the primary level. Seventy percent learning environment for children in these health services. responsibilities.
21 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Programs Integrated Programs 22 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Afghanistan Bangladesh 59,000 126,800 As part of our coastal community In our urban programs in Bangladesh, resilience program in Bangladesh, which which target the extreme poor living in reaches a total of almost 59,000 people, slums, in squatter settlements, and on the 280 self-help groups were created to streets, we have introduced innovative help reduce the vulnerability and enhance health financing initiatives, distributing the resilience of coastal communities to 31,000 health vouchers that allowed climate change. They have been trained 126,800 people access to free, basic in climate-smart agriculture, rainwater- primary healthcare packages, including harvesting techniques, multi-layer nutrition services. Those participating in the vegetable gardening, and non-farming program have seen their average annual small trades. expenditure on healthcare reduced from $90 to zero. 774 870,000 In response to persistent drought and in Over 870,000 people were directly helped coordination with the Ministry of Rural through our urban integrated program Sakuma Begum* (14) lives in a Concern pavement Reconstruction and partner organizations, in Bangladesh, which improves the dweller center in Dhaka, Bangladesh with we completed seven water supply livelihoods, resilience, health, and nutrition her brother Kassim.* Some of the assistance networks, giving 774 households in the of extremely poor people living they receive from Concern includes shelter, Rustaq, Chall, and Kohistan districts of in slums, in squatter settlements, or on food, education, and lockers to keep their Afghanisan better access to clean and the streets. personal belongings safe. drinkable water. *Name changed to protect the identity of the individual. Photo: Jennifer Nolan / Concern Worldwide
AFGHANISTAN BANGLADESH Over 213,650 people reached Over 4.4 million people reached
23 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report 2018 Highlights Afghanistan - Bangladesh 24 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
Village chief Tilo Saidi and Diaba Idrissa, a member of a water Niger management committee, are in Chad charge of maintaining their well in Agaye, Niger. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Chad 32,000 Concern Worldwide DR Congo Sierra Leone In Tahoua, Niger, our integrated Malawi program reached over 32,000 people, directly focusing on projects including Niger conservation agriculture, livestock care, kitchen gardens, water source Sierra Leone rehabilitation to provide access to clean water, the promotion of good health and DR Congo nutrition practices, and education. 47 10,000 58,500 In Chad, we have been developing an In the crowded slums of Freetown, In Mangochi district in Malawi, we reached early warning system in collaboration Sierra Leone, we are working alongside 58,500 extremely poor people. In return with Radio Sila to alert communities to key partners to give low-income families for a monthly cash payment, program potential oncoming hazards, giving them access to clean, sustainable water participants dug trenches to improve Malawi more time to take action. During the year, supplies and better sanitation facilities. irrigation, built structures to reduce erosion, results showed that 47% of community In 2018, more than 10,000 people and created tree nurseries, all of which action committees, which receive and then benefited from the construction of will ultimately help reduce soil and land disseminate messages in the community, seven innovative, solar-powered water degradation and improve its productivity. benefited from an early warning around systems, and 23,000 learned about the drought that affected the district. sanitation and latrine services through a sanitation promotion project. 481 In Tanganyika Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we worked with extremely poor and marginalized Ache (19) is a mother of two children households to enable them to work their under the age of five, including a newborn, way out of poverty through our graduation in Fararo, Chad. Through Concern’s program. In 2018, we reached over 481 nutrition program, Ache learned the households through this approach. An important element of the program is to importance of exclusive breastfeeding. ensure that women play a full part in the Photo: Lucy Bloxham / decision-making process, and results from Concern Worldwide an annual survey showed that two-thirds of both men and women say that women are consulted in decision-making.
CHAD DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO MALAWI NIGER SIERRA LEONE Over 188,000 people reached Over 1.2 million people reached Over one million people reached Over 620,000 people reached Over 236,000 people reached
25 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report 2018 Highlights Chad - DR Congo - Malawi - Niger - Sierra Leone 26 Resurgence Conference The Resurgence of Humanity Conference in September was a great success with over 300 world leaders, policymakers, and experts on conflict and the humanitarian system coming together in Dublin Castle to discuss how the A MILESTONE cycle of conflict, hunger, and human suffering might be broken. Over 100,000 people watched our videos across social media and the livestream, showing that there was a phenomenal level of interest During 2018, we held in the conference.
Above: Former US President Bill Clinton speaks at the Concern 50th over 20 events, big and Anniversary Resurgence of Humanity Conference held at Dublin Castle in Ireland. Photo: Photocall Ireland small, across our field YEAR offices and in Ireland, the UK, the US, and South Korea.
Above: Kayce Freed Jennings (left) and Concern Worldwide CEO Dominic MacSorley (right) speak at the first Concern Leadership Summit, which celebrated Concern’s 50- year legacy and showcased how today’s humanitarians, policymakers, and community influencers are paving the way for a future of health and hope. Photo: Zach Hetrick
Women of Concern Chicago Above: World-famous fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski (left) More than 500 guests joined us with Sharon Niona (right), a member of a in Chicago for the 2018 Women community conversations group in Sinai of Concern Awards Luncheon. We community, Nairobi, Kenya. Alexi, a Concern were deeply honored to celebrate Ambassador, visited Concern’s programs in the monumental achievements of Kenya to see some of the amazing things the Honorable Madeleine K. Albright that are being accomplished in one of the (right) and Dr. Joanne C. Smith (left). world’s most challenging places. Photo: These extraordinary women are Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide shining examples of courage, visionary leadership, unwavering strength, and humanity. Photo: Mike Fan Seeds of Hope The annual Seeds of Hope Dinner in New York was an extra special event in 2018 with singer and activist Bono in attendance. That night, he spoke about his passion for the work that Concern does and how spending time with Concern in Ethiopia in the 1980s changed his life forever. Photo: Concern Worldwide
27 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report A Milestone Year 28 HOW WE WORK
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Working with Partners arena, we collaborate closely with Sonke Gender Justice; Feinstein International Concern cannot achieve Center, Tufts University; Institute for its mission in isolation. Development Studies, University of We believe we can achieve Sussex; Development Studies Association of Ireland; Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; greater impact by working Trinity College Dublin; University College in collaboration with other Dublin; University College London; and the organizations and institutions. University of Edinburgh.
Our partners include other international In the private sector, Concern works in and local NGOs (non-government partnership with Philips, which supports organizations), government bodies, solutions to healthcare in Kenya; the research institutions, and private- Zurich Foundation, which engages in sector companies. Partnerships may flood mapping in Bangladesh; Kerry involve collaborating in joint operations, Group, which supports food security supporting and monitoring work, programming; and Nethope, which providing and benefiting from technical promotes the use of technology in expertises, or engaging and funding local development programs. organizations to implement a project together with Concern. As a founding member of Alliance2015, a partnership of seven European In 18 of the countries where we operated organizations with a presence in 89 in 2018, programs were partially or fully countries, we continue to work in implemented through local partners, collaboration with our fellow members including local governments. In all of at a program and policy level. our program sectors, partnerships were evident to different degrees, with livelihoods representing 29% of partners, integrated 17%, health 9%, education 2%, and emergencies 43%. In 2018, the largest number of partners continued to be in Pakistan.
A workshop to review our partnership approach was held during the year; recommendations around partnership management, building staff capacity, and updating tools and guidelines will Jaafar* (5), who fled with his family from be taken forward in 2019. the conflict in Syria, at his home in Lebanon, which Concern outfitted with toilets, water We continue to work in strategic tanks, blankets, and insulation. partnerships. For example, we are an active member of the Scaling Up *Name changed to protect the identity of Nutrition movement. In the academic the individual. Photo: Mary Turner / Panos Pictures
29 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report How We Work 30 REMEMBERING THANK YOU TOM MORAN Without the support of many October 14, 1952 individuals, governments, and – August 12, 2018 co-funders, a small number of whom are recognized here, our work would not be possible. Tom Moran is survived by countless Together, we have helped over 24 people across generations whose lives he helped save and transform as Board Chair and global ambassador. His personal million people in 25 of the world’s generosity and dauntless evangelism on behalf of Concern set a tone and an example that will resonate for years poorest countries. to come.
He was a leader, a peacemaker, a humanitarian, a servant, a friend, and a loving husband. We particularly want to thank On behalf of Concern’s global community we are profoundly grateful. our engaged network of Please email Annie Marsh Ryerson at [email protected] if you would like to make a gift in honor of Tom’s supporters and volunteers for longtime work and commitment to Concern Worldwide. their hard work and everyone who supports us regularly, giving us the confidence to plan ahead. We are also very grateful “ Tom was not born to interpret this world but to change it. And change it he did. For men and women who were given little or nothing, he gave to our supporters who have his all. Millions of children across the world have never had a better friend whose name they may never know.” thoughtfully left us a legacy. - Joanna Geraghty, Board Chair, Concern Worldwide US
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33 Concern Worldwide US 2018 Annual Report Our Supporters 34 CONCERN BY THE NUMBERS CONCERN WORLDWIDE US BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Concern Worldwide US financial summary statement of activities for year ending December 31, 2018 (with summarized amounts for 2017)
2018 Total 2017 Total Joanna Geraghty Joseph M. Cahalan Deirdre O’Connor Support and Revenue Chairperson, Concern Worldwide (US) Managing Director Contributions and non-government grants 3,134,987 4,542,364 President & Chief Operating Officer Dolores T. Connolly Blackrock Group JetBlue Airways Chief Executive Officer Support from Concern Worldwide 1,390,757 - Sterling Engineering, Inc. Frances O’Keeffe Government Grants 32,649,443 29,338,450 Jim McShane Volunteer Special Events - net 2,753,906 2,840,287 Vice-Chair, Concern Worldwide (US) Jumana Culligan Concern Worldwide (Ireland) Other Income 56,725 6,746 Chief Executive Officer Founder Total Revenue and Support 39,985,818 36,727,847 The McShane Companies Paper, Ribbon and Wrap, LLC Stephanie Pappas Chief Executive Officer Expenses Joan Carroll Kevin Fortuna MCS Brands Treasurer, Concern Worldwide (US) Founder Program Activities 34,880,021 32,096,204 Lot18 Brendan Ripp Overseas Relief 33,989,761 30,624,517 Colleen A. Kelly Executive Vice President Innovations - 471,879 Chief Executive Officer Scott Gutterson Fox Network Group Development Education 890,260 999,808 Concern Worldwide (US) Attorney National Geographic Partners General and Administrative 1,694,877 1,651,506 The Law Offices of Scott Gutterson Fundraising 2,412,220 2,074,037 Madeleine Schachter Total Expenses 3 8 , 9 87,118 35,821,747 Michael Houston Assistant Professor Worldwide Chief Executive Officer Weill Cornell Medicine Grey Group Change in Net Assets 998,700 906,100 Margaret (Peggy) M. Smyth Net Assets at Beginning of Year 7,887,532 6,981,432 Edward J.T. Kenney Chief Financial Officer Net Assets at End of Year 8,886,232 7,887,532 Special Consultant National Grid Mutual of America Gemma Toner Analysis of Expenditure (Gross) Edward R. McCarrick Founder Executive Vice President Chart One Media ICON International, Inc John Treacy John Murphy Esq. Chairperson, Concern Worldwide (Ireland) Program Activities 90% Attorney at Law Chief Executive Officer John Murphy & Associates Sport Ireland General and Administrative 4% Shane Naughton Frank Wall Fundraising 6% Managing Partner Senior Vice President Artech Holdings Turner Broadcasting
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