Our Work

Development Aid Africa’s mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.

We are investing in the host communities in East Africa region and working to support education, protection and health services for the most vulnerable groups, including women and girls and people with disabilities and other special needs. We are helping by:

• Working with leaders of refugee communities to prevent violence against women and bolster women’s empowerment;
• Providing counseling services and support to survivors;
• Ensuring the most vulnerable, especially, women, children, and persons with special needs, have access to health care and other critical services;
• Supporting asylum seekers and refugees with basic healthcare needs and referrals, and protection services at the transit center in Kigoma;
• Working with local government officials and community leaders to ensure children are protected from abuse and exploitation;
• Ensuring that children affected by displacement and crisis have access to safe and quality education;
• Placing unaccompanied children with foster families for care and support;
• Creating education and employment opportunities for youth;
• Educating young refugees about reproductive health and HIV/Aids;
• Providing youth – particularly girls – with social and recreational activities as well as life skills training that can help them cope with crisis.

During conflict and crisis, education protects children and sets them up for a better future. It provides a sense of hope and enables them to recover, learn and thrive. However, over 127 million children in countries affected by war and displacement are out of school, while many others receive only a poor quality education. Despite this great need, education has received less than three percent of all humanitarian aid in recent years.

Our goals
Lack of access to education and poor quality of available schools can undermine people’s potential to have successful futures. The IRC provides children, youth and adults with safe, quality educational opportunities that help them learn the skills they need to survive and thrive.

The DAA’s Outcomes and Evidence Framework supports people working in development and humanitarian aid to design effective programs. It delivers key information on outcomes related to health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power through theories of change that demonstrate how to achieve these outcomes, evidence for which interventions work or don’t work to achieve the outcomes, and guidance on how to measure progress against the outcomes.

Through concerted efforts by the government and partners, malnutrition levels in the country have declined over the last decade. The rate of stunting in children under five declined from 42% in 2010 to 31.8% in 2018, and the prevalence of anaemia in adult women dropped from 41% to 28.8% in the same period. Despite this improvement, the current levels of stunting and anaemia are still considered severe public health threats.

Development Aid Africa has been working in Kenyaa since 2016, focusing on improving health and nutrition, particularly for women, adolescent girls and children.

Through close collaboration with government departments, we are:

• Providing technical assistance to overcome gaps in design and delivery of nutrition action plans
• Providing a full supply of vitamin A capsules to ensure children under five receive two doses at six-months contact point or through the biannual Child Health and Nutrition Month
• Improving capacity of health care providers to plan and properly deliver vitamin A supplementation
• Supporting production of adequately iodized salt, enforcement of salt regulation and increasing awareness about importance of salt iodization among salt producers, traders and health care workers
• Strengthening delivery of adolescent nutrition packages, especially for girls
• Supporting delivery of a first 1,000 days package, including iron and folic acid supplementation, diversified diet, cord care and timely initiation of breastfeeding

In Africa, agriculture supports the livelihoods of over 800 million people (80 percent of the population), providing employment for around 60 percent of the economically active population and 70 percent of the poorest (around 270 million people).

Smallholder farmers, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists living in drylands and relying on crops, livestock, fisheries and forests for their livelihoods are often the worst affected when a disaster strikes. However, in Africa, it is not only about the level of exposure to disaster

This initiative builds on existing experience and involves strong collaboration with similar initiatives and partnerships in the region to oversee the success of our project.

Furthermore, it aims at supporting partners in learning and applying vulnerability mapping and analysis through already existing tools such as Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) as well as improving and extending early warning systems.
Anticipating and preventing recurrent crises affecting food security and nutrition proactively is critical to address the root causes of the vulnerability of farmers, herders and fishermen, particularly women. This is particularly true if we consider that these drylands with their fragile ecosystems are

DAA is providing technical and logistical support to the Government and humanitarian community to ensure an efficient and effective response. Specific projects include the replenishment of national strategic food stocks, developed with the Government, and setting up a UN house in Bungoma to support the establishment and maintenance of an emergency telecommunications network. As of June 2020, the Development Aid Africa is supporting humanitarian response in the country.