• Background and Context
• ECB Project NGOs
  • CARE
  • Catholic Relief Services
  • Mercy Corps
  • Oxfam
  • Save the Children
  • World Vision
  • ECB Agencies Assess their Progress One Year On
  • 2011 Agency Self-Assessment Survey Reveals Progress in Key Areas
• ECB Stakeholders
• Funding
• Partners
• ECB Project Newsletters

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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) works in over 100 countries as the international agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works in disaster and emergency response and sustainable development initiatives, serving people regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity.

CRS, through working with the ECB Project, aims to be an innovative and effective emergency prevention, preparedness and response organization. CRS is working with the objectives of Phase II to demonstrate:

• A more dynamic and accountable rapid response capacity by improving on the capacity to work with communities to reduce disaster risk
• More active engagement in the protection of vulnerable populations in emergencies by improving upon the extent to which beneficiaries are involved
• Increased creativity and innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programming
• Being supported by, and supporting, a robust and dynamic knowledge management and learning system

CRS is coordinating the development of the ECB Practitioners’ Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). CRS has committed to the ECB Project in Year 3 toward supporting its Indonesia consortia activities, including the Joint Needs Assessment initiatives (JNA), and the production of the Practitioners’ Guide.

CRS is the lead agency for the Indonesia consortia with the support of Yenni Suryani, and supported by Wahyu Widayanto, Field Facilitator.