Congo

World Vision Democratic Republic of Congo

World Vision has helped vulnerable children and families in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1984.

Today, we work, in partnership with local organizations in 12 provinces. In the next strategy cycle, we will expand our program by adding four more areas. These areas are lturi, Kwilu, Haut Lomami, and Kasai.

Grounded firmly in our Christian faith, we tackle the spiritual roots of vulnerability and empower children, families, and communities through integrated and transformational development practices and life-saving emergency responses.

We prioritize our fragile context programme to quickly address root causes and support transformative shifts, even in ongoing fragile situations.

This approach is key for our ability to work along the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.

We strategically commit to:

- Strengthen our engagement in humanitarian clusters

- Build partnerships with specialist organisations

- Ensure the use of a no-harm-approach in all our work

Integrating Wash

Our goal is to reach 130,000 people with WASH services using an integrated WASH approach. We will try to include WASH in our health, nutrition, food security, livelihoods, and education programs and projects.

We prioritize water and sanitation. We collaborate with various sectors and funding methods. Our goal is to ensure a steady flow of funds at both local and national levels. We will also contribute to national, regional, and global learning in multi-sector interventions

Good governance

Using our community scorecard metho­dology, "citizen voice and action" and child protection advocacy, we will promote improvements in the quality and availability of health, education, and protection services. Both models will be primary drivers for our advocacy as they generate bottom-up pressure for change.

Our long-term development program will support and enhance government efforts to improve decentralized governance and resource utilization. We will keep building good relationships with government departments and leaders to make a difference at the national level.

Fostering social inclusion

When examining the reasons for the exclusion of certain groups of children, we must take into account various social factors. These factors include age, gender, disability, and ethnicity.

We will evaluate these factors for each project and find ways to tackle harmful social norms that cause discrimination. We will work with religious leaders, children, and young people whenever possible. We will work with religious leaders, children, and young people whenever we can.