ICCO's mission is to work towards a world where poverty and injustice are no longer present.

ICCO's work consists in financing activities which stimulate and enable people, in their own way, to organise dignified housing and living conditions. ICCO is active in countries in Africa and the Middle East, in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Asia, Oceania and Eastern Europe.

ICCO co-operates with church and non-church organisations which are directly involved with the people who are the prime target group. ICCO respects the individual culture, history, and social role of the organisations concerned. In co-operating, ICCO considers it important to actively listen to, and think with these organisations.

ICCO has its roots in the Dutch Protestant-Christian churches and is partner in various national and international collaborations. Furthermore, ICCO will co-operate with anyone who shares its ideals. ICCO is actively involved in this wide range of collaborations to boost the effects of its financing work and to mobilize expertise and information that is available within its organisation for lobbying and counselling purposes.

ICCO finds its inspiration in the Christian tradition and mission, in experiences and stories from partners who mostly have a different cultural background and who have different sources of inspiration, and in dialogues about these matters within its organisation.

ICCO is one of the six co-financing organisations in the Netherlands and for performing its duties it receives about 120 million Euros from the Dutch and European governments, and from organisations participating in ICCO. ICCO is accountable to politicians and society for the way in which these moneys are spent.

 

 

 

For more information visit the ICCO-alliance website