Concern Worldwide U.S. 2017 Annual Report Syria Where We Work 3 Iraq Who We Are and What We Do 5 Lebanon A Message from the Chief Executive Officer & Turkey Board of Directors Chair 7 9 - 10 Our Activities 11 Overseas Programs 11 Somalia - Emergencies 13 Ethiopia - Livelihoods 15 - Health 17 Kenya - Education 19 Rep of Sudan - Integrated Programs 20 South Sudan Safeguarding 23 Working with Partners 24 21 - 22 Contents Our Donors 27 DPR Korea Board of Directors 33 Bangladesh Nepal Afghanistan Pakistan 25 - 26 DR Congo Zambia Highlights 2017 Uganda Malawi Mozambique 31 - 32 Photo: Mamie Morray, mother of nine children, lives in Bo District, Sierra Leone, where Concern’s Innovations for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health initiative has retrained over 200 former traditional birth attendants to become maternal and newborn health promoters. Photo by Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide. 1 Concern Worldwide US 2017 Annual Report 2 Where We Work 2017 In 2017, Concern worked in Concern by the Numbers 27 of the world’s poorest and Concern Worldwide US financial summary statement of activities for year ending December 31, 2017 (with summarized amounts for 2016) most vulnerable countries, 2016 Financial Performance 2017 Total 2016 Total Support and Revenue directly reaching more than Contributions and non-government grants 4,542,364 7,555,579 Support from Concern Worldwide - 3,534 Government Grants 29,338,450 30,892,636 10 million people. Special Events - net 2,840,287 3,046,210 Investment Income 6,746 7,826 Total Revenue and Support 36,727,847 41,505,785 Democratic People’s Turkey Republic of Korea Expenses Syria Afghanistan Program Activities 32,096,204 39,246,599 Lebanon Iraq Overseas Relief 30,624,517 32,886,225 Pakistan Nepal Innovations 471,879 5,318,202 Bangladesh Development Education 999,808 1,042,172 Haiti General and Administrative 1,651,506 1,685,773 Niger Republic Chad of Sudan Yemen Fundraising 2,074,037 1,637,595 Total Expenses 35,821,747 42,569,967 Sierra Leone Central South Ethiopia Liberia African Sudan Somalia Philipinnes Republic Uganda Change in Net Assets 906,100 (1,064,182) Kenya Net Assets at Beginning of Year 6,981,432 8,045,614 DR Rwanda Congo Burundi Net Assets at End of Year 7,887,532 6,981,432 Malawi Zambia Analysis of Expenditure (Gross) Mozambique Program Activities 90% Afghanistan Nepal Bangladesh Niger General and Administrative 4% Burundi Pakistan Fundraising 6% Central African Republic Republic of Sudan Chad Rwanda Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Sierra Leone Democratic Republic of Congo Somalia Ethiopia South Sudan Haiti Syria/Iraq Kenya Turkey Lebanon Uganda Liberia Yemen Concern Worldwide US, Inc. is a New York-based not-for-profit corporation exempt from Malawi Zambia federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3). Tax Identification Number: 13-3712030 Concern Worldwide US, Inc. supports projects carried out in the field by Concern Worldwide, Mozambique registered in Ireland. 3 Concern Worldwide US 2017 Annual Report 4 Our Core Values We focus on extreme poverty: We We are courageous: Taking necessary are driven by a clear focus on eliminating risks, balanced with sound judgement, Built on our history and the poverty in the most vulnerable places allows us to work in the most challenging Concern and responding to humanitarian crises. contexts. voluntary, compassionate commitment of Concern’s We believe in equality: People are We are committed: We go the extra founders: equal in rights and must be treated mile to support communities in times Worldwide with respect and dignity. of need and in the face of very difficult operating environments. We listen: Listening and partnership are key to empowering the poorest and most We are innovative: Finding effective Who we are vulnerable to transform their own lives. solutions requires innovative thinking combined with a pragmatic approach. We respond rapidly: People affected by disasters are entitled to have their We are accountable: Accountability and what we do most basic needs met through rapid, and transparency are central to all of effective, and principled responses. our actions and use of resources. Our Identity – Who We Are Concern Worldwide US (Concern) is a non- governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working toward 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 through our development education and advocacy work. Fatuma Mohamed and her husband, Abdulahi Osman, with their two boys: Yusuf, who is only three and a half weeks old, and two-year-old Mohamed, who recovered from moderate acute malnutrition following treatment at an outreach clinic in Kenya. Photo by Peter Caton. 5 Concern Worldwide US 20172017 Annual Annual Report Report 6 “ With this report, we hope to tell A Message from the a story of an organization that finds the existence of hunger, Chief Executive Officer suffering, oppression, mass Colleen Kelly & displacement, inequality, and disease simply unacceptable.” Board of Directors Chair Joanna Geraghty It started with one emergency response countries, working directly and side by side corporate donors, board members, and Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in one country 50 years ago. It continues with more than 10 million people toward thousands of individual supporters across in Bangladesh, where we are helping to today with 65 responses to 24 outcomes that touched the lives the US. support and sustain the nearly 700,000 emergencies – large and small – in the of some 27 million. Rohingya refugees who arrived in 2017. last year alone. This refusal to accept extreme poverty and The Syria crisis is in its seventh year, with The challenges we would face in 2017 its root causes increasingly requires our no end in sight, and South Sudan and As we write this in 2018, we mark were laid bare from the year’s outset. Dire nearly 4,000 staff members worldwide Somalia continue to teeter between with great pride Concern Worldwide’s warnings of hunger crises in January gave to go to the most difficult areas, often conflict and climate disaster. 50th anniversary. It’s a celebration of way to the declaration of famine in part of in conflict zones, to reach the most our consistent, steadfast commitment South Sudan. In all, more than 20 million vulnerable. Last year, it drove us to reach Such massive challenges require to working with the world’s poorest to people across South Sudan, Somalia, more than 256,000 people in Syria with maximum efficiency and effectiveness, transform their lives and a sobering Nigeria, and Yemen were pushed to the improved water systems, sanitation, and we are proud to report that 90% of reminder of how much work remains brink of famine as the year went on. food, and essential household items; to funds raised in 2017 directly supported before us, challenging us to renew reach 319,000 people in Somalia with our programs. that commitment. Our colleague Dominic MacSorley, cash transfers, education, nutrition, and CEO of Concern Worldwide in Dublin, clean water; and to supply seeds, tools, We look forward to reporting to you at this In March 2018, the president of Ireland, said, “To declare a famine is to declare a and training to 363,000 farmers in time next year on efficiency and impact Michael D. Higgins, hosted a reception failure of the political will to prevent it from Mozambique, among hundreds of other that are sustained and growing. We look in Dublin marking the milestone. He occurring. To have four countries facing initiatives reaching millions more. forward as well to sharing accounts of remarked, “I would like to thank Concern famine at one time is unprecedented and commemorations and celebrations of our most profoundly for all that you’ve the continued failure of the international We accomplished a great deal together 50 years. Our commitment now, as it will be achieved, not just for the work that you’ve community to prevent or adequately in 2017, but there is much more to be next year, is to redouble our efforts so that done, but for the work you continue to respond to them is unacceptable.” done. Hunger, disease, and conflict we are not needed 50 years from now. do. Through your work, you crafted a vital continue to threaten tens of millions in bridge between the Irish people and some It was a clear echo of our founding in underreported mass emergencies in the Above all, we thank you. of the poorest people in our world.” 1968 by a small group of ordinary citizens who agreed that famine in Biafra was That vital bridge was as strong and simply unacceptable. They acted, and effective as ever in 2017, and indeed it the movement that would become stretched not just from Ireland, but from Concern Worldwide was born. our communities in the UK, South Korea, and here in the US as well. With this report, we hope to tell a story of an organization that finds the existence In this annual report, we share with you of hunger, suffering, oppression, mass an accounting of our activities, income, displacement, inequality, and disease and expenditure in 2017.