MISEREOR is the German Catholic Bishops’ Organisation for Development Cooperation. For over 60 years MISEREOR has been committed to fighting poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. MISEREOR’s support is available to any human being in need – regardless of their religion, ethnicity or gender.
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Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World) and Misereor welcome the development of a new…
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Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World) and Misereor welcome the development of a new Africa strategy by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Briefing paper
Since German diplomatic missions can make an important contribution to protecting…
Briefing paper
Since German diplomatic missions can make an important contribution to protecting space for civil society as well as HRDs, Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World), Konsortium ZFD (Civil Peace Service Consortium) and MISEREOR have commissioned a study on good practices in the cooperation between diplomatic missions and civil society.
The publication aims to show how the right to adequate housing and related rights are threatened by…
The publication aims to show how the right to adequate housing and related rights are threatened by climate change, increasing urbanization and environmental degradation, by highlighting ground-level experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America. It aims to encourage an integrated approach to policy-making and to present examples of community-led tools and solutions from five countries: Cameroon, El Salvador, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines.
This Orientation Framework for engaging in pastoral development, with a focus on…
This Orientation Framework for engaging in pastoral development, with a focus on Ethiopia, is a working document for MISEREOR and national partners. ‘Pastoral development’ is used in analogy with ‘agricultural development’ but referring to pastoral systems.
MISEREOR not only supports projects in the countries of the South, it is also committed to serving the poor by acting as their voice and advocate in Germany. MISEREOR's main campaign takes place during the Lenten season.
Following the publication of a report on sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich at the end of January, Pirmin Spiegel, Director General of MISEREOR, the German Catholic Bishops’ Organisation for Development Cooperation, responds to events with a personal statement.
MISEREOR uses a whistleblowing system to provide a confidential and straightforward way to submit reports. The whistleblowing system serves as an input channel for reports of violations of MISEREOR’s code of conduct, internal regulations of the organisation or applicable laws.
This short film presents the benefits of project evaluations and why partners organisations should consider commissioning them locally.
It introduces examples and various partners’ experiences with such local evaluations.
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In October 2020, a new Pastoral Development Policy and Strategy was approved by the Council of Ministers of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The document is meant as a framework for a new set of similar policies to be produced at the level of Ethiopia's Regional States.
CELEP has created a space on its website dedicated to helping people navigate the policy in English
