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Review Norwegian Church Aid – Darfur Programme
Norway has provided bilateral support to UN and humanitarian agencies in Darfur since 2004. Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) has for the last two years been the only Norwegian organisation present in Darfur. The NCA Darfur Programme is a joint response by the ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis implemented in partnership with SudanAid and the Sudan Council of Churches in South and West Darfur. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has funded NCA’s Darfur programme since 2006 with an annual amount of NOK 10.5 million, which accounted for 10-14% of the total budget. The Programme has provided support to more than 300,000 beneficiaries since 2004, and since 2009 it has been one of the biggest programmes in the area with an outreach to the most vulnerable people in West and South Darfur. In early 2011, MFA asked Norad to conduct an external Review of NCA’s Darfur programme, and a team of consultants from Nordic Consulting Group was commissioned to do the Review. The main purpose of the Review was to analyse the relevance of the programme objectives based on an assessment of the overall conflict context in Darfur. The Review was asked to assess to which extent the context could challenge NCA’s adherence to humanitarian principles.