What we do
Ensuring basic human needs are met
When disasters occur, Cordaid provides emergency responses to ensure that basic human needs are met. We do this in collaboration with local partners and communities and other key humanitarian aid actors. Our aim is to save lives and to make sure people are properly protected, even in life-disruptive situations.

Resilient Recovery
At the same time, our Resilient Recovery approach strengthens the ability of communities to anticipate, adapt and respond to future hazards and shocks.
We enhance the capacities of local humanitarian actors to prepare and respond timely, effectively and appropriately to unfolding hazards and disasters. We reinforce and complement existing local capacities and partner with other international organisations to obtain maximum results (scope, scale, and speed) with quality interventions that meet the international principles and standards for humanitarian aid.
Before, during and after disasters
Cordaid intervenes before, during and after disasters, in sequence or simultaneously:
- We improve disaster preparedness;
- We provide emergency relief, answering immediate needs for survival: food, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), shelter and settlement, protection and cash;
- We enable recovery and reconstruction and help to re-establish livelihoods.
-> Read more about Cordaid’s Humanitarian Aid program.
ECHO Partnership Certificate until 2027
Cordaid has been awarded the ECHO Partnership Certificate 2021-2027. Cordaid is eligible and suitable to be awarded EU funding for the implementation of humanitarian aid actions on the basis of a thorough review and assessment of Cordaid’s systems and applicable controls, rules and procedures.