DRC East Africa & Great Lakes

08/12/2025

Through funding from SIDA and SDC, DRC East Africa & Great Lakes and partners Save the Children and Mercy Corps are providing vocational training in dressmaking (Sudanese Toub), tailoring, and dry juice production to empower youth and women with practical skills and new income opportunities.

These trainings help are helping participants strengthen their livelihoods, gain confidence, and actively contribute to their local economies under the Building Resilience and Supporting Solutions to Displacement project in Central Darfur State.

08/12/2025

Through the SIDA and SDC-funded project, DRC East Africa & Great Lakes is supporting communities in Darfur to rebuild key roads that help people move, work, and access services.

Community-led road rehabilitation has improved mobility, trade, and access to services, allowing residents to earn income through cash-for-work while restoring vital routes between villages and markets.

In Nertiti, communities are also leading the construction of a bridge that links families to markets and a food distribution centre. Once completed, it will ensure safe access even during the rainy season.

08/12/2025

There is for online abuse. Join DRC East Africa & Great Lakes in calling for stronger protections for women and girls in digital spaces. Your voice matters and your actions can help create safer communities both online and offline.

03/12/2025

As we mark this year’s 16 Days of Activism, we call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, including the fast growing threat of online abuse.

Digital spaces must be safe for everyone. There is for harming women and girls offline or online.

03/12/2025

Under the SIDA/SDC-funded project, DRC East Africa & Great Lakes in Sudan is improving sanitation and hygiene conditions in displacement sites in Nertiti and Golo through the construction of latrines and the training of community hygiene promoters.

The new latrines are providing families with safer and more dignified sanitation facilities, reducing health risks and improving overall living conditions. At the same time, trained community hygiene promoters are helping raise awareness on good hygiene practices, ensuring these efforts have lasting impact.

These activities are strengthening community ownership and supporting healthier, more resilient environments in displacement sites.

03/12/2025

Through funding from ECHO, DRC East Africa & Great Lakes in Sudan is supporting displaced families in Central Darfur to rebuild their lives. In Golo and Nertiti, families who fled conflict have received cash assistance, hygiene kits, psychosocial support, and awareness sessions to help them recover and start anew.

Shadia, displaced from Al-Fashir and now living in Golo, shared:
“The people of Golo treated us very well, and supported us with cash and dignity kits. This help was very important for us.”

02/12/2025

Across the Horn of Africa, droughts, floods, and conflict don’t stop at the border — and neither should our responses.

At today’s workshop, the Borderlands Working Group explored how stronger data, smarter forecasts, and cross-border approaches can help protect communities before crises hit.

02/12/2025

Today DRC East Africa & Great Lakes & Welthungerhilfe brought donors and partners together to tackle one key question: How can we act earlier in the borderlands?

With conflicts and climate shocks crossing borders faster than responses, anticipatory action isn’t a niche idea — it’s a necessity. Time to move from reacting to preventing displacement.

11/11/2025

Under the SIDA and SDC-funded project, DRC East Africa & Great Lakes in Sudan and partners Save the Children and Mercy Corps are supporting farmers in Central Darfur through agricultural training and seed distribution to boost food security.

Germination is already underway as farmers prepare their fields for the next season. Strong community participation ensures local farmers are equipped to sustain production and increase yields.

11/11/2025

Rehabilitation of the BBC water yard in Nertiti, Central Darfur, was completed under the SIDA & SDC-funded crisis modifier project.

DRC East Africa & Great Lakes in Sudan installed a new elevated 15,000-litre tank, human tap stands, and a donkey cart filling stand, and rehabilitated the generator.

This has improved access to clean drinking water for the community, with a local water management committee established to ensure sustainable use and maintenance of the facility.

11/11/2025

As food and basic services face reduction, peaceful coexistence in refugee camps becomes increasingly fragile, underlining the importance of evidence and community-led approaches to peacebuilding.

At , DRC’s Humanitarian Disarmament and Peace and PARTOCA programs highlighted how peer-driven, locally led research in Kakuma (Kenya) and Rhino Camp (Uganda) is generating detailed evidence on conflict triggers and local solutions.

Some points in the discussions built on learning from the ASPIRE annual reports published together with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

Read more about PARTOCA:

PARTOCA is a specialized capacity within the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) dedicated to advancing the understanding of how displaced populations navigate their circumstances, seek opportunities, and adapt to changing conditions (including dramatic cuts in aid and climate change) through locally-led,....

04/11/2025

In Kole Kebele, Ethiopia, 34-year-old Habiiba Muhumed is finding new ways to provide for her family through climate-smart farming.

With support from DRC Ethiopia and its partner Pastoralist Concern, through the Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete and Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa funded HDPN programme, she now grows cereals, pulses, and vegetables using drought-tolerant seeds and organic fertiliser.

The land that was once dry now produces food and income for her family.

Read her full story here: https://shorturl.at/dzMN6