Norwegian Church Aid has been present in southern Africa since the early 1980s when the organisation joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa.
Today, NCA supports projects in six countries in the region, mainly through local partner organisations.
Norwegian Church Aid’s activities in the region fall into three main categories:
The fight against hiv and aids
focusing on:
- Mobilizing and supporting churches in their work to defeat stigma and discrimination against people living with hiv
- Church-based work around the issues of gender, sexuality and hiv-aids
- Monitoring South Africa’s strategic plan for hiv, aids and sexually transmitted diseases (New National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS and STI 2007 – 2011)
Good governance
focusing on:
- Civil society for good local governance
- Religious work in the community to promote economic justice
- Mobilizing religious actors to take part in politics and community development
Work with indigenous peoples
focusing on:
- The right to land, water and natural resources
- Promotion of cultural pride and identity
- Building capacity of San organiations
- Reducing violence against women
Our regional office in Pretoria, South Africa, oversees all projects in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. We also have country offices in Luanda, Angola, in Lusaka, Zambia and in Lilongwe, Malawi.