XXXXXXX Including the vulnerable ANNUAL REPORT 2015 1 Please open ME strategic focus areas Rural Community Development: • WASH - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene • Food Security • Livelihoods • Building Local Civil Society Capacity • Gender Rights • Disaster Risk Reduction Disability and Special Needs: • Advocacy for Disability Rights and Inclusion • Building Local Civil Society Capacity • Diagnosis and Rehabilitation • Inclusive Education Emergency Disaster Response: • Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene • Food Aid • Non-Food Items • Shelter VALUES IN ACTION HONESTY • INTEGRITY • COMPASSION • RESPECT FOR ALL PEOPLE • VALUING THE INDIVIDUAL THE WORK OF MISSION EAST 2015 RUSSIA Romania Afghanistan • Medical consultation, support • Emergency response and and supplies. disaster risk reduction. • Winterisation kits: food, • Water, sanitation and clothing and school supplies. hygiene. • Home work classes. • Infrastructure rehabilitation. • Improved household food security. • Improved livelihood security. • Natural resource manage- ment. UKRAINE • Capacity building of local KAZAKHSTAN communities, civil society and MONGOLIA government. Romania BULGARIA GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN Armenia North TURKMENISTAN Korea TURKEY Tajikistan Syria • Assistance with medical supplies to Syrian refugees in Syria Lebanon. Afghanistan Iraq IRAN Armenia • Youth with disability helpedPAKISTAN towards employment through Nepal better vocational training. • Communities assisted with their development by con- necting them to diaspora. • Rights of people with INDIA disabilities strengthened and general awareness raised through advocacy. Burma • Medical care, support and Iraq information for people with HIV/AIDS. • Distributing emergency • Capacity building of local household items, food and cash partners for humanitarian for newly displaced families. action. • Providing winter clothing, blankets, heaters, fuel and shelter improvements for winter. • Child-friendly spaces for learning and play for displaced children. • Psychosocial support for women affected by the conflict. RUSSIA Tajikistan Nepal North Korea • Equal gender rights aware- • Empowering women through • Living conditions of children ness raising campaigns, trainings on livelihoods, in orphanages improved training and legal advice. women’s rights and literacy by providing a variety of • Basic business management classes. non-food assistance. skills training for women. • Inclusion of the most • Water and sanitation • Campaigns for equal rights for vulnerable people. improved for flood affected people living with disability, • Awareness raising training for families by providing a new training and legal support. sustainable forest products water supply system to newly • Rehabilitation therapy and management. built houses. support for children with • Entrepreneurship develop- • Living conditions of most UKRAINE disability. ment and marketing training. vulnerable will improve KAZAKHSTAN • Water and sanitation • Disaster riskMONGOLIA management. thanks to newly developed infrastructure and hygienic projects in food security and Romania practice promotion. Providing relief after water, sanitation and hygiene. • Capacity building local Earthquake: partners for disability and • Distribution of emergency women's rights programming. non-food items. BULGARIA GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN • Emergency water and sanitation. Armenia • Hygiene promotion. North TURKMENISTAN Korea TURKEY Tajikistan Syria Afghanistan Iraq IRAN PAKISTAN Nepal INDIA Burma • Provision of food assistance. • Capacity building of local Burma partners in proposal writing, food security and livelihoods programming. • Training of women’s self -help groups. • Emergency response to flooding due to Komen cyclone. FOREWORD Contents Ensuring stronger communities Foreword ................. 5 In 2015 Mission East was engaged in several emergency responses while continuing to Board and management... 6 strengthen rural communities and ensuring inclusion for all. Finances .................. 8 Countries and The year 2015 was largely affected by the Inclusion for all projects 2015............. 11 continued humanitarian crisis in Syria and Iraq. Inclusion of marginalised groups is another Afghanistan .................12 Mission East has continued to provide immediate major component of Mission East’s work. In Armenia .....................14 assistance as well as psychosocial support to the Armenia, the work towards making all schools Burma .......................16 most vulnerable internally displaced persons inclusive for students with disabilities and Iraq..........................18 who live close to the war zone in Northern Iraq. special needs continues. Furthermore, the Nepal........................20 lessons learned in Armenia are being expanded North Korea .................22 Fruitful collaboration to and implemented in cooperation with local Romania.....................23 in emergency response partners and communities in Tajikistan. Through Tajikistan ....................24 In 2015 we also witnessed the most severe this work, Mission East aims to ensure that all Thank you ............... 26 earthquake in Nepal in more than 80 years. people have equal opportunities to participate in Mission East managed to provide water, a developing community. sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and shelter to Board earthquake-stricken communities. A quick Thanks to all Mission East staff, local and Chairman Carsten Wredstrøm ∙ Ib Alstrup ∙ Benedikte Grenov ∙ and effective response was ensured by the international partners and donors for a great Ib Nørholm ∙ Dietmar Roller cooperation with Integral partners and our local effort in 2015 towards providing assistance Editors Nepal office’s well established connections with to some of the most vulnerable people and Kim Hartzner, Managing Director ∙ local partners and communities. communities in the world. Peter Sigetty Bøje, Deputy Managing Director, Copenhagen ∙ Peter Drummond Smith, Deputy Managing Director, Strengthening vulnerable communities Brussels ∙ Line Højland, Communications Central to the work of Mission East is the Officer strengthening of remote rural communities. Graphic Design Carsten Wredstrøm Together with local partners in Afghanistan, Datagraf Communications & Rosendahls Chairman of the Board Burma, Nepal and Tajikistan as well as in North Production Korea we focus on food security, diversification Clausen grafisk of livelihoods, WASH, Disaster Risk Reduction Photos (DRR) and Natural Resource Management (NRM) Mission East & Medair in order to make the communities more resilient. Front page Kim Hartzner, The vulnerability of the communities we work These two Yazidi girls live in an informal Managing Director tent camp for IDPs on the Sinjar Mountain in was made clear in August when the monsoon in northern Iraq. Mission East has caused severe flooding in Burma and in October distributed winter clothes and heaters in the cold Iraqi winter and has established where an outburst of conflict and an earthquake child-friendly spaces in the area. caused displacement in northeastern Afghanistan. Photo: Philip Hartzner. 5 BOARDXXXXXXX AND MANAGEMENT Board of directors Carsten Wredstrøm Ib Nørholm Project and Quality Management Consultant. Private investor. Ordinary member of the Chairman of the Mission East Board of Mission East Board of Directors since 2015. Directors since 2010. Has for the last 20 years Previously member of the Board, 2003-2004. worked with project and quality management Founder of Japan Photo. in Denmark and abroad. Dietmar Roller Ib Alstrup Development and Humanitarian Aid Information technology engineer at Novo specialist. Ordinary member of the Mission Nordisk. Ordinary member of the Mission East Board of Directors since 2015 and East Board of Directors since 2015. Actively ordinary member of the board of Mission engaged in Karlslunde Strandkirke which East Deutschland since 2013. Has carried out has supported the work of Mission East since tasks as independent consultant for Mission 2005. East in Burma, North Korea and Iraq. Previously CEO of Kindernothilfe. Currently Benedikte Grenov Chairman of the Board of International Chemical engineer. Ordinary member of the Justice Mission in Germany. Background in Mission East Board of Directors since 2012. anthropology. Works with research on malnutrition of children at Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at Copenhagen University. Has worked in research and development of food and medical devices for 20 years. The management Kim Hartzner Marianne Le Floch Managing Director. Responsible for Finance and Human Resources Director, leadership, strategic direction and Brussels. Joined Mission East in February general management of Mission East, 2007 as Finance Manager. Worked with including external profiling and key donor the industry sector as Cost Controller and relationships. Medical Doctor. Co-founder of International Treasurer for 8 years and 3 Mission East, previously Operations Director years with humanitarian support in different and Country Director in Armenia. countries of Africa. Peter Sigetty Bøje Richard Peppiette Deputy Managing Director, Copenhagen. Support Manager, Brussels. Responsible Responsible for fundraising, for IT systems and their use in making communications, liaison and administration the most out of our available staff and since February 2013. With a business donations since 2000. Previous experience as background as Managing Director and electronics engineer who has worked for aid professional board member, engaged in organisations