Mission East
| Founded | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Rene Hartzner |
| Focus | Emergency relief, rehabilitation and development |
| Location | |
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Area served
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Eastern Europe and Asia |
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Key people
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Dr. Kim Hartzner (Managing Director) |
| Slogan | Values in action |
| Website | http://www.miseast.org/ |
Mission East is a Danish relief and development NGO. The organisation was founded in 1991 by Rene Hartzner, and works with emergency relief aid, rehabilitation and development in Afghanistan, Armenia, Burma, Iraq, Nepal, North Korea, Romania, Syria and Tajikistan.
Mission East works with a broad variety of developmental issues, including assistance to improve clean water supply, health and hygiene awareness, household agriculture, the building of access roads to isolated areas, people with disability, infrastructure, and passing on skills to local people.
Specific projects include a beekeeping cooperative in Afghanistan, a clubroom project in Armenia for children with and without disability, livelihood support of children in Nepal, livelihood projects in the Roma community in Romania and small-scale agriculture projects in Tajikistan. Mission East also works with an array of partner organisations.
Sectoral Expertise
Mission East focuses on:
- Rural community development
- Disability rights
- Emergency relief
In addition:
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
- Food security and livelihoods
- Gender Inclusion
- Disaster Risk Reduction
Institutional Funding
- Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Danish Mission Council Development Department
- CISU (Civil Society in Development)
- ECHO (The Commission’s European Community Humanitarian Office)
- EuropeAid
- German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
- UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
- Global Fund
- PATRIP
Accreditations
- HAP membership (Human Accountability Partnership)
- People in Aid - Verified Compliant
- SPHERE (Humanitarian Charter & Minimum Standards in Disaster Response)
- Red Cross Code of Conduct
- ECHO FPA (European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department’s Framework Partnership Agreement)
Affiliations
- EU-CORD
- Danish Mission Council Development Department
- CISU
- VOICE
- NGO-Forum
- ISOBRO
Mission East publishes a magazine in Danish six times a year.
