Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) provides humanitarian aid in prevention, crisis-response and reconstruction in close cooperation with international and Austrian relief agencies.

Humanitarian aid measures

ADC humanitarian aid measures are executed by qualified actors with sound prior experience in humanitarian aid. On the one hand, these are multilateral implementing partners such as United Nations organisations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). On the other, they include Austrian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that are accredited as suitable implementing partners by the Austrian Development Agency, the ADC operational unit.

In the event of a humanitarian disaster, ADC provides funds in response to appeals by multilateral implementing partners in concert with other donors or via calls for proposals from qualified implementing partners of ADA.

Accreditation procedure

To find out whether they are qualified, Austrian NGOs can submit a corresponding application for accreditation to ADA for implementing humanitarian aid measures. This accreditation procedure applies solely for the short-term instrument of humanitarian aid measures directly following an acute disaster.

At the moment, ten Austrian NGOs are accredited for implementing humanitarian aid measures:

• Care Austria
• Caritas Austria
• Evangelic Relief Organisation, Austria (social and welfare)
• Hilfswerk Austria International
  
• HOPE '87
• Jugend Eine Welt
• Light for the World
• MSF Austria
• World Vision Austria