We work together in long-term partnerships with local development actors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, aiming at ending poverty and hunger; ensuring health, clean water, food security and sustainable livelihood; achieving gender equality and promoting peaceful and inclusive societies. A human rights based approach to development is a key to achieve these goals in the Agenda 2030.
We serve communities on a non-discrimination basis and in our humanitarian interventions we strive to follow the international commitments of the Core Humanitarian Standard on quality and accountability. This means supporting communities based on their needs, regardless of gender and ethnic, political, religious or other background, to empower them as rights-holders and to restore their hope for a better future.
SCR is the humanitarian and development branch of SEM, which is a faith-based civil society organisation in Sweden with over 160 years of experience supporting small scale efforts in church and society, building relationships and increasing cross-cultural and inter-religious understanding.
SCR is working mainly through local partners, but also sometimes our own staff is assigned for specific tasks in close cooperation with a local partner.
Funding
SCR is mainly funded by individual donations from individual members and supporters. We have experience of back-donor funding in the form of ODA from governments portfolios and other funding institutions.
The history of SCR
SCR was founded in 1976, as the humanitarian and development branch of SEM, then working in refugee camps in Sudan.
Humanitarian and development work in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, specially with focus on refugees.
Famine in the Horn of Africa in the 1980s.
Currently SCR works in Iraq and Somalia.