War Child International

War Child Holland is part of an international network together with War Child Canada and War Child United Kingdom (UK). The network’s goal is to improve the quality and efficiency of War Child’s work. To that end, the three organisations collaborated in projects in several field locations, but remain legally, financially, and administratively independent foundations. For this reason, War Child Holland does not raise funds for an international secretariat, but remains an independent foundation that self-implements programmes with its own funds.

In 2012 War Child increasingly cooperated in fundraising with its counterparts in the United Kingdom and Canada. War Child Holland has been raising funds for War Child UK’s projects in DR Congo (€ 193,300 in 2012). Fundraising by War Child UK has been done for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and resulted in € 51,030 for an eight-month project. Further cooperation has increased, resulting in more efficiency, joint application for funding calls, joint advocacy reports and initiatives and shared office and overhead costs.

Lessons learned

In order to increase efficiency the three organisations should improve their communication during the development of their annual plans to better align programmes and fundraising.

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