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For the financial TRUSTEES’ REPORT year ended AND CONSOLIDATED 29 February 2020 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Human rights defender Maria Felicita Lopez (31) Front cover image: Hala Sanak (14), who plays for from the Lenca community in Honduras, one of Gaza’s first-ever schoolgirls’ football club, enjoying the many people in the country facing the threat a Gaelic football skills training session on the beach of violence and intimidation for standing up for her with Armagh’s All-Ireland winner Oisín McConville. community’s right to land and natural resources. Oisín was in Gaza to promote Trócaire’s 2019 (Photo: Simon Burch) Christmas Appeal. (Photo: Garry Walsh/Trócaire) OUR VISION & VALUES Trócaire envisages a just and peaceful world where: • People’s dignity is ensured and rights are respected • Where basic needs are met and resources are shared equitably • Where people have control over their own lives • Where those in power act for the common good We support people regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or any other facet of identity. Our work is guided by five values: Solidarity – we stand in support of people facing injustice. Perseverance – we do not give up. Accountability – we are accountable to our donors and the communities we work with. Participation – we believe everybody has the right to participate in decisions that affect them. Courage – we will be brave. We practice these values in our programmes, partnerships and relationships. TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION 1: WHO WE ARE SECTION 2: WHAT WE DO How we work 5 Goals for a Just World Message from the Goal 1: Human rights and democratic space 16 Chair of the Board 7 Goal 2: Equitable access to and use of resources 20 Message from the CEO 8 Goal 3: Women’s empowerment 24 Our work at a glance 10 Goal 4: Protection of human dignity in humanitarian crises 28 Where we work 12 Goal 5: People and leaders in Ireland acting for a just world 32 Goals for a stronger Trócaire Madris Mginya and her children (L-R) Goal 6: Innovation, learning and improvement 36 Eric (8), Joy-Faith (6), Alex (7), Julius (12) and Eugene (16) at their home in eastern Goal 7: Effective partnerships 38 Kenya. Madris and her family featured in the 2020 Trócaire Lenten Appeal. They live Goal 8: Increased scale and income 42 in a region of Kenya that has been badly affected by climate change and drought. Goal 9: An accountable and effective organisation 44 (Photo: Gary Moore) SECTION 3: HOW WE’RE RUN Structure, governance and management 46 Appendix 1: Charitable expenditure by country 115 Financial review 72 Appendix 2: Top 50 grants to partners 116 Independent auditor’s report 80 Trustees and other information 118 Consolidated statement of financial activities 83 Consolidated balance sheet 84 Consolidated cash flow statement 85 Trust statement of financial activities 86 Trust balance sheet 87 Trust cash flow statement 88 Notes to the financial statements 89 4 | How We Work Trócaire Annual Report 2019/20 | 5 HOW WE WORK We believe real change can be delivered only by working in partnership with local communities affected by poverty and injustice. Partnership means working We measure our impact against with individuals, communities these four levels. and local organisations to In Ireland, we work with help bring about the change communities north and south to they want to see in their lives. educate, inspire and motivate Fundamentally, partnership is people to take action in the about solidarity, respect and name of global justice. empowerment. Our work is funded by the Irish We believe that to bring about public and institutional donors, change we must work at four including the Irish government different levels: through Irish Aid. • Empowering women and men to secure their basic rights In Ireland, we work • Mobilising communities with communities and engaging leaders to build sustainable and north and south to resilient communities educate, inspire and • Strengthening civil society motivate people to to challenge injustice and take action in the tackle poverty name of global • Influencing those in power to create a fairer and more justice. sustainable world. Nzuva Sitwaminya Pendeza, Coordinator of our partner organisation CVAP in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo. Trócaire, with Irish Aid support, has been funding programmes to halt the spread of the ebola virus. (Photo: Garry Walsh / Trócaire) Trócaire Annual Report 2019/20 | 7 MERCY IN ACTION – A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Since the turn of the century, the global maternal mortality rate has declined by 37 per cent, while the mortality rate for under-5s has dropped by 47 per cent. Those statistics alone tell a sisters by helping 2.5 million powerful story of the impact aid people over the past year. and development has had in the poorest corners of our world The stories of progress and over recent decades. While we impact lift our hearts. However, are rightly focused on those as you will read in this report, who still live in unacceptable there are many more great conditions, it is important to challenges to overcome. remember the many millions Conflicts and climate change of people who have been threaten to undo much of the supported to lift themselves out progress that has been made. of poverty and towards brighter, Too many people live in hunger. better futures. Too many people live under the threat and reality of violence. It is a source of pride and great satisfaction to know that Trócaire With so much polarisation has played a role in this. and divisiveness prevalent in today’s political world, we must In 1973, the Bishops of reflect on the challenges facing and impact of Trócaire. I would Ireland issued a pastoral letter marginalised and excluded also like to thank my fellow on development. This letter groups. In the words of Pope Bishops for their continued established Trócaire. The letter Francis, “Loving our neighbour support for Trócaire’s work, as read: means feeling compassion for well as the countless clergy the sufferings of our brothers and parishioners around Ireland “The earth and its good things and sisters, drawing close to who are the driving force behind belong to all the people of the them, touching their sores and Trócaire. earth and no nation has the right sharing their stories, and thus to build its own prosperity upon manifesting concretely God’s Finally, I want to pay tribute to the misery of others. It is our tender love for them.” Trócaire’s staff around the world, Christian duty as individuals to many of whom are frontline share our wealth and to help Trócaire’s work is grounded in workers playing an enormously our needy brothers. It is equally Catholic social teaching, which important role in the lives of our Christian duty to demand stresses the dignity of each vulnerable communities. that the political authorities person and their inalienable representing us act always human rights, along with their The stories in this report are, with justice and responsibility responsibilities, regardless of as always, testament to the towards less fortunate countries culture, ethnicity, gender or important work being done in and be prepared to use all religion. the name of the Catholic Church means necessary for this end.” in Ireland. As Chair, I would like to Almost 50 years on, Trócaire acknowledge my fellow board continues to fulfil those duties, members for their time and William Crean responding to the humanitarian expertise in helping to ensure Bishop of Cloyne needs of our brothers and the transparency, accountability Chair of the Board of Trócaire 8 | Preface MESSAGE FROM THE CEO Writing this in summer 2020, the period covered in this Annual Report – March 2019 to February 2020 – feels like a different world. As the 2019/20 financial year millions from their homes, drew to a close, Covid-19 was while the worsening impacts regarded as a localised outbreak of climate change are forcing in Wuhan, China. Within weeks people from rural areas into of the financial year ending, it cities and across borders. exploded into a global pandemic that has utterly changed all of our In Central America, the disregard lives. for human rights is making it unsafe for people to stay in The Covid crisis has profoundly their homes. In Honduras I met changed Trócaire’s work. with communities struggling The virus has highlighted the to protect their rights against structural inequalities that exist. hugely powerful forces. Nine People living in poverty have members of the Tolupan been unable to take preventative community have been jailed for measures such as hand washing, protecting their land from logging social distancing and remote companies. working. They lack the most basic of services and depend Protecting communities from heavily on income from daily corporate exploitation was the labour. Our programmes and the theme of our ‘Making A Killing’ contexts in which they operate report, launched in February shifted dramatically in response 2019. Throughout 2019, we to the new reality. campaigned in Ireland in The Covid crisis has support of a binding UN Treaty This crisis has had a devastating on Business & Human Rights. effect on families already living profoundly changed This campaign has made good in poverty and facing food progress, with Ireland now Trócaire’s work. The insecurity. We are committed actively engaged in the UN to supporting our partners and virus has highlighted process and the issue featuring the communities they serve as the structural in several general election party they deal with these long-term manifestos. inequalities that exist. impacts. This campaign is rooted in the People living in poverty Throughout this, we must experiences of communities, continue to support communities have been unable particularly in Central America to face the huge range of where our partners are routinely to take preventative challenges that pre-date targeted for opposing corporate measures such as this Covid era and that are activities that negatively affect compounded by it.