XXXXXXX Including the vulnerable ANNUAL REPORT 2014 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 HONESTY • INTEGRITY • COMPASSION • RESPECT FOR ALL PEOPLE • VALUING THE INDIVIDUAL The work of Mission East RUSSIA Romania Afghanistan • Distribution of medicine, food • Water, sanitation and hygiene. • Capacity building of local and clothing. • Infrastructural rehabilitation. NGOs and local authorities. • Free medical consultations. • Development of women’s • Winterisation kits. Self-Help Groups and training in business skills. • Emergency response & disaster preparedness training. • Seed distribution and training on improved agricultural practices. UKRAINE • Natural resource management. KAZAKHSTAN MONGOLIA Romania BULGARIA GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN Armenia North TURKMENISTAN Korea TURKEY Tajikistan Syria Afghanistan Iraq IRAN Syria Armenia Assistance to Syrian refugees in • Developing vocational trainingPAKISTAN Lebanon and IDPs in Syria: and employment to disabled Nepal • Materials for temporary youth. shelter. • Establishing and empowering • Kitchen utensils and sanita- Iraq disability NGO’s. tion kits. • Engaging diaspora in • Emergency household items. • Winterisation kits. community development. INDIA • Clothing • Winter clothing and blankets. • Rights and advocacy work • Materials to improve shelter for and with people with for winter protection. disabilities. Burma • Food and cash assistance. • Medical care, support and information for people living with HIV/AIDS. Philippines RUSSIA Tajikistan North Korea • Gender awareness training • Support for children in and campaigns. orphanages. • Micro-business training for • Development of projects in women. Nepal food security and hygiene. • Rights and advocacy work • Women’s rights and literacy for and with people with classes. disabilities. • Inclusion of the most • Care and therapy for children vulnerable people. with disabilities. • Awareness raising training for • Water, sanitation and hygiene. sustainable forest manage- UKRAINE ment. KAZAKHSTAN • EntrepreneurshipMONGOLIA develop- ment and marketing training. Romania • Capacity building of local partners in disaster risk reduction. • Assistance to vulnerable BULGARIA GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN children. • Water, sanitation and hygiene. Armenia North TURKMENISTAN Korea TURKEY Tajikistan Philippines Assistance to victims of Typhoon Haiyan: Syria • Materials for temporary Afghanistan shelter. IRAN Iraq • Blankets and water containers. • Hygiene kits. • Tools for constructing shelter. • Training in making shelter and PAKISTAN rebuilding houses. Nepal INDIA Burma Burma • Food assistance. • Capacity building of local partners in food security and livelihoods. Philippines FOREWORD Helping more Contents Foreword . 5 Mission East has responded to several disasters in 2014 and has also continued to Board and management . 6 strengthen our long-term work in the areas of resilience and inclusion. Mission East’s countries and focus areas . 7 2014 has been a year of disasters; landslides in projects such as food security for the Afghanistan . 8 in Afghanistan, flooding in Nepal and a major Mara community in Burma and HIV/AIDS Armenia . 9 humanitarian crisis in Iraq. Mission East prevention in Arme nia. Burma. 10 has responded to these disasters on different Nepal . 11 scales but with a constant focus on providing Wide variety of supporters Tajikistan. 12 immediate and efficient response to the most The work could not be done without our North Korea . 13 vulnerable. large donor base consisting of private Relief . 14 supporters, foundations and public donors. Mission East Deutschland . 16 Focus on long-term resilience In 2014 we have further strengthened Together with our local partners we have Mission East Deutschland, and Mission East Projects in 2014 . 17 strengthened our focus on resilience. In is growing, in terms of supporter numbers, Fundraising. 26 the remote mountainous areas of Nepal staff and area of operation. This makes it Finances . 28 and Afghanistan we are working closely possible for us to go further in our work Thank you . 30 together with communities to make them bringing change to poor and marginalised long-term resilient to recurring small- and people and communities. Board large-scale disasters through a variety of Chairman Carsten Wredstrøm · approaches: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Karsten Bach · Brian Nielsen · René Hartzner · Benedikte Grenov Natural Resource Management (NRM), Editors Water and Sanitation (WASH), food security, Kim Hartzner, Managing Director · diversification of livelihoods, training and Peter Sigetty Bøje, Deputy Managing awareness raising. Director, Denmark · Peter Drummond Smith, Deputy Managing Director and Carsten Wredstrøm Operations Director, Brussels · Including the marginalised Chairman of the Board Line Højland, Communications Offi cer Inclusion of marginalised people is another Graphic Design important component of our work. In Nepal, Rosendahls a/s Tajikistan and Armenia we continue our work Photos to include people with disability in society Mission East with a focus on schools, public institutions Kim Hartzner, Front page and workplaces. We also work on including Iraqi children internally displaced Managing Director and living in an unfi nished building other marginalised groups such as women in in Northern Iraq. Mission East has Afghanistan and low-caste Dalits in Nepal into supported children such as these with winter clothes, blankets and materials for other Mission East projects. shelter in the cold Iraqi winter. Finally we continue to expand our effort Photo: Peter Eilertsen 5 BOARDXXXXXXX AND MANAGEMENT Board of directors Carsten Wredstrøm Benedikte Grenov Project and Quality Management Consultant. Chemical engineer. Ordinary member of the Chairman of the Mission East Board of Mission East Board of Directors since 2012. Directors since 2010. Has for the last 20 years Works with research on malnutrition of worked with project and quality management children at Department of Nutrition, Exercise in Denmark and abroad. and Sports at Copenhagen University. Has worked in research and development of food René Hartzner and medical devices for 20 years. Co-founder of Mission East together with Kim Hartzner and first Managing Director Brian Nielsen of the organisation. Ordinary member of the Chemical engineer and MBA. Managing Mission East Board of Directors. Previously, Director of Securin, Copenhagen, Denmark. 28 years’ experience in international trade. Ordinary member of the Mission East Board of Directors since 2010. Works with the Karsten Bach development of medical devices, strategic Secretary General of the organisation Dansk consulting, start-ups and venture capital. Oase, working for renewal of the Danish Lutheran Church. Deputy Chairman of the Mission East Board of Directors, member of the Board since 2010. Previously, 27 years’ experience with HR, marketing and sales in Denmark. 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 2007 as general management of Mission East, Finance Manager. Worked with the industry including external profiling and key donor sector as Cost Controller and International relationships. Medical Doctor. Co-founder of Treasurer for 8 years and 3 years with Mission East, previously Operations Director humanitarian support in different countries and Country Director in Armenia. of Africa. Peter Sigetty Bøje Richard Peppiette Deputy Managing Director, Denmark. Support Manager, Brussels. Responsible Responsible for fundraising, for IT systems and their use in making communications, liaison and the most out of our available staff and administration since 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 in the field. various social projects. Peter Drummond Smith Deputy Managing Director and Operations Director, Brussels. Responsible for relief and development programming. Joined Mission East in 1997. Engineer with a background in international business and aid management. 6 MISSION EAST'S COUNTRIES AND FOCUS AREAS 7 AFGHANISTAN UZBEKISTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN BADAKHSHAN TAKHAR Targeting vulnerabilities BAGHLAN HERAT KABUL Afghanistan and building resilience QANDAHAR PAKISTAN Mission East has been active in the north-eastern communities to obtain and maintain safe access IRAN provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan to unstable and remote areas. The programme since 2002. There is a continued imperative for met a range of humanitarian needs in water, Achievements Mission East to remain engaged in Afghanistan sanitation and hygiene, household-level • 34 water schemes built and in order to address growing humanitarian needs food and livelihoods security, infrastructure repaired. arising from the increasing instability. rehabilitation and better natural resource • 2,057 household and public management. Disaster risk management, latrines