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Catholic Agency for Overseas Development

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Agriculture
  • Business and Industry
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Development
  • Economics and Finance
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Industrial Development
  • Intellectual Property
  • Labour
  • Least Developed Countries
  • Micro-Credit
  • New Global Institutions
  • Private Sector
  • Sustainable Development
  • Taxation Policy
  • Trade and Development
  • United Nations Reform
  • Women/gender Equality

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • External debt
  • International Trade as an engine for development
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Women and the economy
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Statistics:
  • Poverty statistics

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Climate change
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Finance
  • Industrial development
  • Rural Development
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Sustainable development of SIDS
    • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Cambodia
  • Myanmar
  • Ethiopia
  • Mozambique
  • Guatemala
  • Nigeria
  • Uganda
  • Sierra Leone
  • Honduras
  • Kenya
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Pakistan
  • Timor-Leste
  • South Sudan
  • Zimbabwe
  • Sri Lanka
  • Colombia
  • Philippines
  • Zambia
  • Rwanda
  • Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
  • Afghanistan
  • Haiti
  • Indonesia
  • State of Palestine
  • Sudan
  • Paraguay
  • Malawi
  • Eswatini
  • Brazil
  • Liberia
  • El Salvador
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1962
    Organizational structure: CAFOD is governed by four Foundation Trustees and a wider group of Trustees with their appointment ratified by the STanding committee of teh Bishops Conference of England and Wales. The Foundation Trustees hold a limited number of reserved powers including the appointment of other trustees and the power to amend CAFOd's trust deed. All other powers,including the establishment of specialist committees (including a finances committee, human resources committee and international programmes committee) and general responsibility for the running of CAFOD are vested with the full Board of Trustees.
    Number and type of members: Not applicable.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: CAFOD is a member of CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis
    Funding structure:
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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