Central African Republic

This landlocked country is one of the poorest nations in the world. Half of the population rely on humanitarian assistance.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered decades of armed conflicts, violence, political tensions, population displacements, as well as epidemics such as Ebola and cholera, causing a severe humanitarian crisis in the country.
These factors have resulted in major population displacements, a lack of basic services and poor infrastructures. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in the middle of a severe humanitarian crisis, with millions of vulnerable people in need of humanitarian assistance. With Measles, Ebola and cholera epidemics already worsening the situation, DRC is now dealing with the latest threat of Covid-19, which is spreading through the country.
DRC has a population of 84.1 million people.
The DRC is ranked 179th out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index.
In the DRC, 15.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
We continue to respond to the nutritional needs of vulnerable communities in the country. Our emergency nutritional programme can deploy response teams and conduct nutrition surveys anywhere in DRC, meaning we can provide food to vulnerable families. We’ve responded to the acute humanitarian crisis in Djugu territory with an integrated nutrition and health approach, mental health and care practices, and WaSH and food aid projects.
We’ve implemented Ebola infection control and protection activities in Kinshasa and in Ituri and responded to floods in the South Libenge province. To address the causes of undernutrition, we’re implementing a longer term multi-sectoral intervention in Kasai and in Kasai central.
We continue to monitor nutritional resilience in the province of Kwango to better understand the determining factors for malnutrition in the region, the behavioural barriers of communities and the specific vulnerabilities associated with gender.
We reached more than 1,263,514 people through our programmes in the DRC in 2019.
We started working in the DRC in 1997.
We have 472 staff based in Kinshasa, Kasai, Kasai Central, Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Tshopo, Kwango, Kwilu, Haut Lomamiaaa.
To meet the growing needs as the virus spreads in DRC, we’re:
This landlocked country is one of the poorest nations in the world. Half of the population rely on humanitarian assistance.
With millions fleeing from conflict, many people in the world’s newest country are at risk of malnutrition.
In recent decades peace and stability has enabled economic growth, but despite progress malnutrition is still common.