Priorities
FOUR KEY PROGRAM PRIORITIES
Episcopal Relief & Development partners with locally-led organizations around the world to advance lasting change in communities impacted by injustice, poverty, disaster and climate change. We focus on four interconnected priorities: early childhood development, women and girls, climate resilience and disaster response.
Early Childhood Development
Equipping parents and caregivers so young children can reach their full potential.
The quality of care that children receive during the first 1,000 days of life affects them in ways that last a lifetime. That’s why investing in parents, caregivers and young children during the critical 0–3 age is so important. In partnership with local faith leaders and change agents, Episcopal Relief & Development promotes nurturing care that fosters responsive caregiving, good health and nutrition, and early learning and play, while working to reduce unhealthy environmental factors like poverty, malnutrition and exposure to violence.
Learn more about our early childhood development work.
Women and Girls
Forging partnerships to reduce gender-based violence and advance equality.
Episcopal Relief & Development believes everyone deserves to live free from violence in a society where they are treated with dignity and respect. Systems—from cultural to financial—prevent women and girls from achieving equality and fully realizing their goals. Together with our local partners, we equip faith leaders and other trusted change agents to confront harmful social norms and behaviors to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls and advance women’s empowerment.
Learn more about our work with women and girls.
Climate Resilience
Investing in communities to strengthen resilience to climate change.
Extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts and floods are leaving millions of people without food and water. Often, those most at risk are isolated, rural, subsistence farming households, far from basic support services. Episcopal Relief & Development’s extensive faith network allows us to reach these most remote communities and, through our partners, provide the skills training, information and access to financial resources households need to cope and adapt to rising climate risks and uncertainty.
Learn more about our work to strengthen resilience to climate change.
Disaster Response
Providing emergency relief and long-term support in disasters.
Episcopal Relief & Development works through a global network of local faith and community partners to support people impacted by natural disasters and human-made crises like conflict. Our approach is inclusive, comprehensive and forward-looking, building on a community’s existing strengths, assets and resources. With our partners, we strengthen community preparedness, provide emergency relief in the wake of a disaster, and support long-term recovery and resilience by investing in communities long after the crisis. We support individuals in shaping their own futures for a full and sustained recovery.
Learn more about our disaster response, recovery and resilience work.
