Agnes Kroese will become the new CEO of Dorcas with effect from 1 September 2022. In her role as Country Director South Sudan, she has been actively involved with Dorcas since 2019. Agnes has held various positions within the humanitarian and development sector and has a strong track record. She succeeds Leo Visser, who will retire at the end of September after leading Dorcas for six years.

Agnes looks forward to continuing her career at Dorcas as CEO and also Chairman of the Executive Board. Agnes: ‘From close up, I have experienced what Dorcas’ work means for those in need. The change in individuals and the flourishing of communities motivates me and gives me hope. I want to use my knowledge and experience to further develop and professionalise Dorcas, so that, together with everyone involved, we can realise a structural impact on even more lives.’

Jan van der Linden, Chair of the Supervisory Board and responsible for the recruitment process: ‘In Agnes, we have found someone with the right qualities, ambition and inspiration to become Dorcas’ new CEO. With great personal commitment, she has been a strong leader of Dorcas’ work in South Sudan over the past few years. In her new role, Agnes will work with the entire team to give substance to Dorcas’ further development.’

Leo Visser will hand over his responsibilities to Agnes in September and retire on 1 October after a meaningful career. Dorcas is grateful for Leo’s unbridled commitment and his continuous investment in sustainable change. Thanks to his efforts, Dorcas is now a stable, future-oriented organisation that is able to act decisively for those in need, also in these exceptional times.

Besides Leo Visser’s departure, Dorcas will also bid farewell to Ine Voorham. She has been actively involved as Chair of the Supervisory Board since 2012. After a period of 10 years, her involvement with Dorcas has come to an end. Ine Voorham has played a pivotal role at crucial moments, for which Dorcas is very grateful. Jan van der Linden has been appointed as her successor. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2016 and he has been appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board with effect from 15 May 2022.

Agnes Kroese

When working on cash programmes it can be an overabundance of information for aid workers with a lot of admin work and time spend on aligning with fellow team members. These programmes in addition tend to change often which can cause a challenge for keeping all documents updates. The Cash Program Design Wizard is a simple web-based tool that helps humanitarian organisations to design cash programmes in line with international standards and best practices and address challenges based on real experiences across multiple contexts. Its main purpose is to guide aid workers through a simple set of intuitive questions that results in a quality cash program. It does so by starting with the reality of the human context rather than the cash solution, reducing uncertainty on cash program parameters and it increases the speed to set up usage across locations and organisations.

The Design Process   

25 Aid workers from the consortium partners of Dorcas, ZOA, Help a Child, Tearfund, Cordaid and 510 (Data & Digital initiative of The Netherlands Red Cross) have co-designed the Cash Program Design Wizard. The Cash Program Design Wizard was co-designed using Human Centered Design methodologies. Human Centered Design is a design and management framework that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of identifying the problem and solution process which is applied in the co-design sessions.

In 2021 co-design sessions were held across Burundi, DRC, Ethiopia, Iraq, Lebanon, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. In total 25 aid workers shared their experience with cash programming. In 2022 some of these co-designers user tested and improved the product linking it to real cash programmes. From 2018 until 2022 there were many other aid workers that co-designed the Cash Program Design Wizard sharing their learnings and needs as aid workers asked to set up cash programmes including people affected. These sessions included many disaster response types across the Caribbean, Ukraine, Malawi, Kenya, The Netherlands, Chad, Lesotho, Namibia and Nigeria. Together we looked at the tools, trainings and processes that aid workers found useful within their organisation and we clustered their challenges.

The needs and challenges of the aid worker                                                      

The Cash Program Design Wizard is created across 3 different aspects: desirability of the humans involved (including people affected), the feasibility of the technological and the viability within the humanitarian context. The needs and challenges of the aid worker expressed during the co-design sessions can be concluded into the following:

The benefits of the Cash Program Design Wizard

The learnings of the co-design sessions were incorporated into the Cash Program Wizard. The Cash Program Design Wizard provides the following benefits:

The Cash Program Design Wizard helps aid workers in field offices, country offices and (inter)national headquarters, who want to set up cash programming for people affected within multiple contexts. The tool allows one main owner of the program design (often a Field Officer) to flow through the guiding questions, answering them and changing those answers as and when needed. The latest information automatically updates a standard report structure ensuring that there is one central point of truth on the program design at any given time. A comment section per question allows for other stakeholders in the country office or (inter)national headquarters to input on the latest design or simply stay up to date on the latest status.

The 121 Platform

The 121 platform consists of easy-to-use Cash-Based Aid products for people affected, and aid workers alike in response to the increasing global demand for cash and voucher-based aid in the humanitarian sector (such as the Self Registration App and Humanitarian Organisation Portal). To ensure its scalability the Cash Program Design Wizard has been created to function outside of the 121 Platform. If an organisation has designed the cash program with the Cash Program Design Wizard, they can also consider using the 121 platform. Through the 121 Platform they can ensure that people receive Cash and Voucher Assistance in an easy, safe and fast way. Read more about the 121 Platform here.

The consortium

The development of the Cash Program Design Wizard by the consortium (Dorcas, ZOA, Help a Child, Tearfund, Cordaid and 510) is made possible by funding of the Dutch Relief Alliance through the DRA Innovation Fund. The Dutch Relief Alliance Innovation Fund is a fund created by the Dutch Relief Alliance with financial support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Dutch Relief Alliance operates at a global level through an alliance of Dutch humanitarian organisations and in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2015. They work together with more than 100 local organisations.

Written by: Ioana Lungoci, Ioana Ghiurau – Dorcas Romania

In December 2019, the world heard about the first “pneumonia” cases of unknown cause in China. On 7 January 2020, a novel coronavirus was identified: 2019-nCoV.

Since then, the world has changed beyond imagination. Over 6 million people have died[1] and many who contracted the virus are now suffering from the effects of long COVID. The secondary social and economic effects across the world are still hard to fully comprehend.

Healthcare workers were the frontline heroes in the battle against the COVID-19 disease. Organisations around the world responded to decrease the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society, especially amongst vulnerable communities.

One of these communities is represented by the Roma people. Roma form the European Union’s largest ethnic minority. While there is no official number for the Romani population worldwide, 10 – 12 million Roma people[2] live in Europe. Approximately 6 million of them reside inside the European Union.

These people, already scarred by extreme racism, social exclusion and poverty, saw their situation worsen under the pandemic.

According to the Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey of 2018, every third Roma child lives in a household where someone went to bed hungry at least once in the previous month. Only 53% of Roma children attend early childhood education. This is typically less than half of the proportion of children their age in the overall population. Between 2011 and 2016, the number of Roma children in segregated, inadequate schooling climbed by half, from 10% to 15%, in just five years[3].

Only 30% of Roma are able to work for a living, compared to the average EU employment rate of 70% in 2015. Furthermore, 41% of Roma report they have been discriminated against in everyday situations, such as looking for work, housing, health and education over the last five years[4].

In this environment, the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted the already challenging lives of Roma communities. During the pandemic, the Roma population continued to endure prejudice and unequal access to essential services. They encountered problems in five areas: housing, health, employment, education, and discrimination.

Infographic “How the COVID-19 pandamic adversely affected Roma communicties” © Dorcas
  1. Housing

Overcrowded living conditions make it impossible for Roma to adhere to hygiene, social distancing and isolation standards in informal settlements. In the European Union, 30% of Roma do not have access to running water and up to 80% live in densely populated areas with overcrowding[5].

2. Health

Due to a high prevalence of long-term chronic conditions, Roma are more likely to not only catch the virus but also to develop health issues and die prematurely.

They face challenges in obtaining healthcare since few have health insurance and the majority reside in segregated neighbourhoods. Many of them are vulnerable to malnutrition, which was already prevalent prior to the pandemic. Their life expectancy is ten years lower on average than that of the general population in the countries where they dwell[6].

3. Employment

Unemployment and low work intensity have long been a problem for Roma, particularly among women. Many Roma lost their daily sources of income and face limited access to social services, which are sometimes made more difficult by quarantine restrictions.

Their daily or occasional job in the informal sector, such as collecting and selling waste materials, small trading, digging in landfills, scavenging for food in garbage cans or even begging, has historically been their source of income. The current situation has driven them even further into poverty. Due to their unstable employment and lack of a formal residential address, Roma were frequently denied social security benefits. Most employment assistance policies to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 crisis impact did not specifically target or include them.

4. Education

Socially isolated and digitally excluded Roma children found it difficult to participate in distance learning. They often lack access to digital media and an internet connection, so they could not follow lessons or communicate with educators. In addition, parents, who often have a low level of education themselves, could not offer educational support.

Many distance-learning programmes need a variety of resources that Roma children rarely have at home. And even if such resources were available, then studying at home in tiny houses with large families was a considerable challenge.

5. Discrimination

Roma continue to endure intolerable levels of prejudice in everyday life, whether they seek a job, are at work or in school, need healthcare, interact with administrative entities, or visit a store. In the past five years, nearly 41% of Roma felt discriminated against in at least one of these areas due to their ethnic origin. However, one-quarter of Roma (26%) say the last incident of perceived discrimination occurred in the 12 months prior to the survey[7].

Racism is common, exacerbated by the fact that many Roma individuals have returned to Eastern Europe after losing their employment due to lockdowns in Western Europe. In some communities, they were even blamed for bringing the virus home with them[8].

[1]https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

[2]https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/roma-eu/roma-equality-inclusion-and-participation-eu_en

[3]https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2016/second-european-union-minorities-and-discrimination-survey-roma-selected-findings

[4]https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2016/second-european-union-minorities-and-discrimination-survey-roma-selected-findings

[5] Roma in the COVID-19 crisis: An early warning from six EU Member States – Italy | ReliefWeb

[6] https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/presentations/roma-health

[7] https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2016-eu-minorities-survey-roma-selected-findings_en.pdf

[8] https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/opinion/the-roma-are-among-most-threatened-by-covid-19-in-europe/

Dorcas and ZOA are joining forces and will form a partnership in South Sudan. Both organisations have been present in South Sudan for many years and have worked closely together during those years. Per April 1st 2022, Dorcas and ZOA will form a joint working organisation under the name ‘ZOA Dorcas South Sudan’ with a country office in Juba.

“Our complementary expertise and geographical coverage enables us to achieve more impact in reaching those most affected by crisis and poverty in the country”.

Agnes Kroese, country director ZOA Dorcas South Sudan.

The current programmes in the country are not affected by this organisational change, these will continue as planned. The partnership focuses on South Sudan, the international offices of both organisations as well as offices in other countries remain independent entities.

Logo ZOA Dorcas South Sudan

In the past weeks, an estimated 12.65 million people have been affected in the areas hardest hit by the war within Ukraine. About 3 million refugees have fled the country and another 1.85 million people are internally displaced. Many more remain trapped in areas of escalating conflict where essential services are disrupted, and basic needs such as food, water and medicines can scarcely be met. In the face of this human catastrophe, Dorcas seeks to identify the most vulnerable groups and provide them with shelter, food, medical aid and other basic care. These include persons with disabilities, older people and people at risk of human trafficking.

Persons with disabilities

About 3 million persons with disabilities live in Ukraine. They face multiple barriers in accessing safe evacuation, shelter and humanitarian assistance. For example, shelters like metro stations and bunkers are often inaccessible for persons who use wheelchairs. And blind and deaf persons experience difficulties accessing information on emergency evacuation and shelter locations. Therefore, many people with disabilities are forced to stay at home when shelling occurs. Furthermore, thousands of children and adults with disabilities are trapped in institutions where they face the risk of being abandoned or suffering serious neglect.

Older people

Older people are also disproportionately harmed by the war, especially older women and people with disabilities or chronic diseases. They face difficulties in escaping or avoiding fighting, which means they can become separated from their family. Access to the healthcare, medicines and assistive devices (such as walking frames and toilet chairs) they need can also be severely curtailed. And where humanitarian support and targeted services are available, older people often fail to access these because they are unable to wait in the long queues for hours.

Risk of trafficking

Finally, refugees run the risk of human trafficking. Displaced persons may have limited access to financial resources or opportunities for income generation. That gives traffickers a fertile environment to promise safe migration routes, employment and education or skills training. Refugees are then deceived into entering exploitative situations to pay off the smuggler fees. Children who are displaced or separated from their families without support networks are particularly vulnerable to becoming targets for traffickers.

Heavy conflict in Ukraine threatens the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people across the country. The violence has destroyed homes, torn families apart and damaged essential services. Many lives have already been lost.

Hundreds of thousands are trapped in conflict areas, cut off from food, clean drinking water, electricity and health services. More than 2 million people have fled the country in the past days. The UN projects that millions more will be displaced from their homes by escalating violence.

Acute Joint Response Ukraine

The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) initiated an Acute Joint Response in Ukraine to provide immediate humanitarian relief to victims of the conflict and support communities that host displaced people. The Joint Response, led by Dorcas in cooperation with Cordaid and Save the Children, works with local partners in Ukraine to deliver urgent support such as food parcels, nonfood items for shelters, clean drinking water, hygiene kits to those affected, focusing in particular on the areas in and around Poltava, Ternopil, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Transcarpathia and Zaporishya.

In the next 6 months, the DRA will improve shelters for displaced people by providing mattresses, blankets and cooking supplies. The DRA offers psychosocial support and mental healthcare to help victims deal with stress and trauma resulting from the conflict. Support to marginalised people, such as people with a disability, older persons, pregnant women, children and vulnerable families is central to the response.

Flexible, immediate response

The DRA is able to respond rapidly to the crisis in Ukraine due to the DRA partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which provides direct funding for Joint Responses. Humanitarian support is delivered by DRA members together with local organisations in Ukraine.

About the Dutch Relief Alliance

The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) is a coalition of 14 Dutch aid organisations in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The DRA partners are: CARE Nederland; Cordaid; Dorcas; Oxfam Novib; Plan International; Help a Child; Save the Children; SOS Children’s Villages The Netherlands; Stichting Vluchteling; Tearfund NL; Terre des Hommes; War Child; World Vision; and ZOA. The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) partners with the DRA by funding Joint Responses.

Seventy per cent of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty are women. In urban areas, 40 per cent of the poorest households are headed by women. Women predominate in the world’s food production (50-80 per cent), but they own less than 10 per cent of the land. Eighty per cent of the displaced by climate related disasters and changes around the world are women and girls. Climate change may lead to more gender-based violence, an increase in child marriages, and worsening sexual and reproductive health.

Looking at these data published by the United Nations, it would be easy to view women – and in particular older women – as victims. Dorcas has a different message on International Women’s Day. 

Women are not helpless victims, but they do experience – more than others – the impact of injustice and gender inequality. Advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century. Women are increasingly being recognised as more vulnerable to climate change impacts than men, as they constitute the majority of the world’s poor and are more dependent on the natural resources which climate change threatens the most.

At the same time, women and girls are effective and powerful leaders and change-makers for climate adaptation and mitigation. They are involved in sustainability initiatives around the world, and their participation and leadership results in more effective climate action.

Every day Dorcas meets strong older women who live in difficult circumstances. A current example are Ukrainian women who for the past week daily cross the border with Romania to help and comfort those who flee from the war in Ukraine. At the end of each day, they return to their own homes in Ukraine.

Despite their circumstances, these women have chosen to empower others and to help them develop – not only themselves, but also the people around them. These women use their strength to advocate for changes in their communities, on an economic, social and political level. Women such as Nabila from Lebanon, Ana from Moldova and Martha from Tanzania inspire us with their resourcefulness, their hope and their resilience. You can read their portraits on the Portraits of Power website.

Structural injustice and gender inequality leading to poverty, marginalisation, stereotyping and discrimination of women – and in particular older women – needs to be unpacked and called out for what it is: unjust. All of us need to recognise that women are the ones that across the globe daily experience the subtle and overt effects of injustice and gender inequality. Most importantly all of us need to live out the fact that we all have a role to play in addressing this injustice and gender inequality. And that women – in particular older women – are the ones that lead the way in this when we listen and pay attention. Without gender equality today, a sustainable future, and an equal future, remains beyond our reach.

Meet Jane (57), a strong senior woman from Tanzania – a country known for its beautiful wildlife reserves and for being home to a large variety of ecological systems ranging from Alpine deserts to rainforest areas. Tanzanian women are generally marginalised, a fact that is even more often the case for older women. Older women are usually impoverished, stigmatised and they have limited access to healthcare. Be inspired her story of courage and creativity as she stands strong in the face of poverty and the effects of HIV/AIDS.

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option”

Jane, Tanzania

My name is Jane and in 1995, my life changed completely. My husband passed when I was pregnant with our fourth child. We seemed to have a good life  – I was married to a soldier, we were blessed with wonderful, healthy children and we lived in an apartment on the military base in Monduli. We had hopes and dreams, just like any other couple.

But, shortly after the funeral, I discovered that my husband had died from AIDS. I was tested and my results came out positive. I felt utterly crushed. Nobody knew anything about HIV in those days, most of the information we had at the time was false. We did hear a lot of rumours and these rumours turned victims into outcasts.

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The 121 Platform has been designed to help humanitarian INGOs and local NGOs to increase the quality and scale of Cash and Voucher Assistance. Through the 121 Platform they can ensure that people receive Cash and Voucher Assistance in an easy, safe and fast way. Local humanitarian actors are first to respond to emergencies, and they often have access to areas that other international actors do not. Localisation means increasing international investment and respect for the role of local actors, with the goal of reducing costs and increasing the reach of humanitarian action.

Maintaining quality whilst upscaling cash assistance is tackled through the 121 Platform, the Cash Program Design Wizard and providing Cash Information Management trainings. This case study will go into depth on the latter.         


The Cash Information Management trainings build the capacity for organisations to be more effective when it comes to data for cash projects. The goals of the training series can be formulated as:

The need for Cash Information Management trainings
Cash Information Management is not new, but Cash and Voucher Assistance is Information Management heavy. In Cash projects, significant amounts of personal information are gathered, stored, analysed and shared. Furthermore, there is more pressure from donors to do detailed Monitoring & Evaluation (such as reconciliation), for fraud and aid diversion detection.

Because Cash and Voucher Assistance projects are Information Management heavy, involved staff should be capable to deal with these significant amounts of data. However, this is not always the case and different staff have very different skill levels when it comes to Information Management. Therefore the training curriculum was designed: to bring all participants up to a base level of Information Management understanding.

The 121 Platform Information Management trainingThis training was conducted in 6 weekly sessions (of 2 hours) and was delivered online. The training methodology was a mix of presentations, group discussions, group and individual exercises, practical examples, and brainstorms. This allowed participants to engage with each other and facilitators in the online setting, as well as put the learned skills to practical use. For each session there were two facilitators, one with a cash background and one with an Information Management background to diversify the shared experiences.

The curriculum consisted out of the following sessions:

We have trained over 50 people from 17 different organisations. Organisational focal points as facilitators aimed at creating a sustainable communication mechanism between participants and their focal points for addressing any future training needs.

“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn and acquire the skills that will impact my organisation’s work for many years to come.”
(Munyimwa Tembo, Monitoring and Evaluation Office at Partners for Life Advancement and Education Promotion)

Main findings
On average, participants gave our training a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 8.5 (on the question of: How likely is it that you would recommend this training to your colleagues?). People in general were quite happy with the training provided. The learnings from delivering the training were that there is indeed a large need for capacity building around Cash Information Management.

The training series was designed by 510 and facilitated by Dorcas, Tearfund, ZOA and 510. The 510 Cash Information Management team will use the material to train other National Societies on Cash Information Management. In addition, all training materials will be made easily accessible on the Cash Hub. All consortium partners can provide Cash Information Management Training on request.

All learning materials are currently available through our Google Drive
Want to know more on the 121 platform? Visit www.121.global for more information or to sign in for information on all developments. You can also contact Anton van Wijk (Humanitarian Aid Expert at Dorcas) via a.vanwijk@dorcas.nl.

The consortium
The scaling up of the 121 platform by the consortium (Dorcas, ZOA, Help a Child, Tearfund, Cordaid and 510) is made possible by funding of the Dutch Relief Alliance through the DRA Innovation Fund. The Dutch Relief Alliance Innovation Fund is a fund created by the Dutch Relief Alliance with financial support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Dutch Relief Alliance operates at a global level through an alliance of Dutch humanitarian organisations and in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2015. They work together with more than 100 local organisations. 

For the third time in a row Dorcas Moldova organised a food collection campaign. In a time where a lot of Moldovan struggle with high prices and a worsening health and economic situation, Dorcas Moldova still distributed more than 3,000 buckets full of food. Many people in Moldova are suffering and living under difficult circumstances, especially those without financial stability, who are suffering from an illness or simply have no ways to provide for their basic needs.

Dorcas Moldova organised food collections, in blue buckets, and offered these buckets to marginalised people, such as older persons and families living in difficult circumstances. In the context of the situation created by the pandemic, which led to isolation, fear, stress and concern about what’s coming, Dorcas Moldova continued to support people who struggle with difficulties every day, helping them look to the future with hope. A total of 3,278 families received a bucket full of food products during the Blue Bucket Campaign 2021 edition. This is the third year in a row that Dorcas Moldova is organising the Blue Bucket Campaign. In the first two editions of the campaign, more than 3,000 buckets full of food arrived in the homes of families facing difficulties or at risk.

The campaign team is deeply moved by the generosity of the people, and the results far exceeded expectations. For the 2021 edition, they wanted to support 1,500 families in need. The actual number of buckets that needed to be filled with food reached 3,278. But the “Blue Bucket” means more than just a bucket of food. It’s a way to show love and empathy for their neighbour through concrete deeds, to meet the needs of those in difficult circumstances. The Blue Bucket Campaign is a joint contribution to bring the joy of the winter holidays to the families of those who fight for existence every day.

On this occasion, Dorcas Moldova would like to thank everyone who contributed to these wonderful results: the local partners and churches, the team of teachers, students and parents from the private institutions and high schools, and the diaspora. Additionally, people donated money which resulted in 60 buckets of food for families with limited possibilities of existence. 

Dorcas Moldova also received great support from our International Office in the Netherlands.  Through our shared vision, we exchange knowledge and other resources. Together, we speak out against injustice. This is how we amplify our impact.

The complexity of disaster response projects makes it hard for developers to understand how to develop effective digital tools that meet the needs of the users. Human Centered Design is a design and management framework that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. It aims to help people get a better understanding of the problems they face and the solutions they develop.

Using science based and data driven methods and products to help improve humanitarian aid is very important. Ensuring people trust and use them with ease is just as important. ‘When we started with 510 we began with a data-driven approach, as we have evolved, we were able to introduce Human Centered Design into the digital creation process,’ says Orla Canavan, Strategic Product Design Lead at 510.

Human Centered Design has played a key role in developing the 121 platform to where it stands now. The 121 Platform has been designed to help humanitarian INGOs and local NGOs to increase the quality and scale of humanitarian cash programming. Through the 121 Platform they can ensure that people receive Cash and Voucher Assistance in an easy, safe and fast way.

Read and download case study on Building Cash Products Through Human Centered Design:

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The scaling up of the 121 platform by the consortium (Dorcas, ZOA, Help a Child, Tearfund, Cordaid and 510) is made possible by funding of the Dutch Relief Alliance through the DRA Innovation Fund. This Innovation Fund is a fund created by the Dutch Relief Alliance with financial support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Dutch Relief Alliance operates at a global level through an alliance of Dutch humanitarian organisations and in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2015. They work together with more than 100 local organisations.