Based on its values and working principles, ADRA Norway works in partnerships with various stakeholders, including ADRA organizations in the South. Our main implementing partners are ADRA in Peru, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. As for emergencies, we coordinate closely with the ADRA network, and involve where the need is greatest. We use Sphere as a standard in all our emergency management work.

ADRA Norway believes in a holistic approach to development, and strives for comprehensive and coherent analysis of the local and national reality/context. We work to promote gender equality and peace and reconciliation in the areas of education, health, food security, water and sanitation and provide emergency relief when conflicts and disasters happen.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee has provided ADRA Norway and ADRA Liberia with new perspectives on the loss of our people in Liberia back in 2003. Last Friday, before the Nobel ceremony, Leymah Gbowee and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf set aside their time and met with ADRA Norway staff, ADRA Liberia Country Director Emmanuel George and the wife and daughter of KÃ¥re Lund, who was killed in Liberia in 2003. Gbowee had a very special story to tell. She met KÃ¥re Lund and the Liberian workers in the field on the same day they were killed. They met at the same checkpoint, with the same soldiers. That evening, when she arrived in Monrovia, she heard news reports that the ADRA workers were missing.