Partners' videos
Tackling Chad's Nutrition Crisis with UNICEF (16/05/2013)
Drought is a way of life in central Chad. Malnutrition is widespread, but thousands of children here are getting a shot at a better life...
Iraq: UNHCR helping new arrivals from Syria (15/05/2013)
At the Domiz Camp in Iraq, around 40,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria have found shelter. With the help of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department, UNHCR has already provided 67,000 tents for the crisis.
ECHO and UNHCR improving access to education for children in conflict in Colombia and Ecuador (13/05/2013)
The EU decided to dedicate the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize money to four projects for children who are denied the chance of growing up in peace...
What future for the children of Syria? (11/05/2013)
"The challenge is to make sure that the future of Syria children is not entirely lost"...
Implementing the Water and Sanitation programme (WASH) in South Central Somalia (22/03/2013)
After a devastating drought in 2011 left families across Somalia without the means to survive...
Mozambique floods (15/03/2013)
The heaviest flooding in over a decade to hit southern Mozambique has affected almost 250,000 people and destroyed towns and livelihoods...
The Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) (07/03/2013)
In an innovative partnership, donors, humanitarian and development organizations, and the Nepal government have come together to form the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC)...
Weaving voices: Building resilience with communities in Latin America (28/02/2013)
Building resilience among the communities of Latin America and the Caribbean is essential. Through this they can better respond to the natural phenomena that often cause great suffering to their people...
Mauritania: 18 days to save Saada, 16 months (27/02/2013)
In the Mauritanian region of Gorgol, close to the Senegalese border, 13% of children under five suffer from acute malnutrition...
The Human Chain (13/02/2013)
The Sahel has been hit by severe droughts three times in seven years. Normally it’s every 10 years...
EU Civil Protection Modules exercise (29/01/2013)
An EU Civil Protection Modules exercise was conducted between 25 and 28 January 2013 in Tinglev, Denmark...
Market gardening makes a comeback in Burkina Faso (11/01/2013)
An important market gardening area just outside Burkina Faso's capital Ougadougou, hit by floods in 2009, has been restored with the help from ECHO and our partner, FAO...
Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) (04/12/2012)
The Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) was established by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 1985...
Ivory Coast - Free healthcare to children under 5 and their mothers (11/2012)
November 2012 - To ensure regular and reliable maternal health-care, this project by our partners Médecine du Monde (MdM) aims at reinforcing the capacities of emergency maternity wards in three hospitals in the south-west of the Ivory Coast...
Free health care for the poor: a step towards HELPing Burkina Faso's children to better health (30/10/2012)
See how this ECHO-funded pilot project, implemented by HELP, lifts the financial barriers that block poor families from receiving the health care they need, and offers a way to improve Burkinabe children's health...
A comprehensive response in the Sahel (03/08/2012)
DG ECHO Head of East, West and Southern Africa Unit Cees Wittebrood discusses the importance of addressing the root causes of the crisis in the Sahel.
UNICEF and ECHO join forces to save 37.000 malnourished children (30/07/2012)
After years of war, instability and chronic property, 1 in 10 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are malnourished...
EU Civil Protection field exercise CRO-FLOODS 2012 (18/07/2012)
An EU Civil Protection field exercise code-named 'CRO-FLOODS 2012' was conducted between 21 and 24 May, 2012 near Zagreb, Croatia....
Water is Life for Palestinians (04/07/2012)
Water is Life - and the difficulties for Palestinian populations to access water in the West Bank are often life-threatening...
UNICEF and the European Union combat malnutrition in drought-stricken Uganda (20/06/2012)
One-year old Lochoto Lochero and two year old Francis Lokiru, are two children whose lives have been saved thanks to interventions...
Food crisis in the Sahel (20/06/2012)
The ARTE Reportage team travelled to Burkina Faso, a country in the Sahel region threatened by a serious food crisis. In the province of Diapaga, East of Burkina Faso, ECHO is supporting a "Cash for Work" project implemented by French NGO Action Contre la Faim...
UNHCR campaign "Dilemmas" – No one chooses to be a refugee! (14/06/2012)
UNHCR's 2012 World Refugee Day global social advocacy campaign, "Dilemmas", was launched today. It aims to help fight intolerance and xenophobia against refugees. UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie and a host of other celebrities echo the same strong message: No one chooses to be a refugee...
UNICEF's rapid and practical response mechanism to help people displaced by fighting (29/05/2012)
More than 12,000 people have been displaced by fighting which broke out in the Masisi Territory of North Kivu Province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...
ECHO/FAO field mission in Chad, with football star Raúl González (28/05/2012)
Campaigning jointly with professional football leagues and FAO for the needed assistance to the Sahel. We were in Chad with FAO and international football star Raul Gonzalez to further raise awareness about the needs. Here's the video from the field mission.
In rural Ethiopia, UNICEF and ECHO support community-based, life-saving, nutrition services for children (09/05/2012)
This programme, receiving €1.5 million of our funding, is benefiting over 52.000 severely malnourished children...
Emergency response capacities in Uganda
Meet the Uganda Logistics Team! Nigel, Thomas and Andrew tell us about our partner WFP's logistics and emergency response capacities in Uganda. A project funded by ECHO.
Chad - hunger crisis deepens in one of Africa's remotest regions (27/04/2012)
As the hunger crisis deepens across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, WFP's Jon Dumont travel to Chad, one of the countries most affected.
The "Professional Football Against Hunger" campaign - Highlights (25/04/2012)
The "Professional Football Against Hunger" campaign has reached hundreds of European football stadiums with the message that action is needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster in the Sahel region of Africa, where a food and nutrition crisis caused by drought, chronic poverty, high food prices, displacement and conflict is affecting millions of people.
Footballers against hunger (28/02/2012)
Roberto Baggio, Hristo Stoichkov and Raul Gonzales are well known footballers trying to use their fame to shed light on the fight against hunger.
Innovation saves lives in Somalia (24/02/2012)
As insecurity keeps Mogadishu's SOS Children's Hospital out of reach, their medical teams adapt and innovate by setting up a temporary hospital to ensure that disadvantaged women and children can continue to receive free medical care. ECHO's expert, Morten Petersen, reports.
How cash transfers can make all the difference for drought-affected families in Niger (27/01/2012)
This project is part of a bold joint emergency intervention by ECHO, UNICEF, USAID and the Nigerien government, to help vulnerable families...
People in Need - Cash for Work in Afghanistan
Thanks to this project funded by ECHO, People in Need provided food security assistance to the drought affected population in southern Balkh province of Afghanistan...
People in Need responds to floods in Pakistan
People in Need housing rehabilitation after floods in Pakistan was funded by ECHO, IOM and OFDA...
Lebanon: at the fount of coexistence (2007)
Our Italian partner AVSI presents in this video its projects in Lebanon, using water as a resource for development...
Helping children become children again (2003)
Our Italian partner AVSI is helping children that have been forced to be soldiers in Northern Uganda to become children again...
World Water Forum 2012
Water is life but water can also take lives. Water is something we often take for granted but for more than 2 billion people around the world, water, the most basic of human needs is a luxury...
Forum mondial de l'eau 2012 à Marseille (du 12 au 17 mars)
300 millions d'exclus de l'eau, 300 millions de héros. A l'occasion du Forum Mondial de l'Eau (12 au 17 mars à Marseille) et de la Journée Mondiale de l'eau, Action contre la Faim met en avant les 300 millions de personnes...
Living in fear in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Our Czech partners, 'People in Need' produced this 3 minute video that will open your eyes to the hardships and horrors of daily life for so many civilians living in remote parts of Eastern DRC...
Someone like me
“Someone like me…” tells the story of Alaa, a Lebanese teenager exploring Burj Al Barajneh Camp with Omar, his Palestinian friend who lives in the camp...
Fighting Cholera in Rural Haiti
With the help of our funding CARE has been tackling cholera in the Haitian countryside. In remote parts of rural Haiti CARE has set up rehydration posts to make sure people are treated in time...
Haiti – The faces of reconstruction
Two years after the earthquake in Haiti there is still much that needs to be done. The reconstruction has been a complex operation and more than 700.000 Haitians still lie in camps. It is in this context that Solidarités International...
Music against hunger
In 2011 Amadou & Mariam, musicians from Mali, became the first WFP Ambassadors dedicated to raising awareness among the European public of the scourge of global hunger and efforts to tackle it...
After the flood - Pakistan, one year on
After the Flood, a short film from IRC-UK, documents the experiences of communities in Sindh Province, Pakistan, one year after the devastating floods.
Life-saving emergency nutrition intervention to drought-affected communities in Kenya
More than 12 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance due to drought, food crisis and conflict...
Climate change and disaster risk reduction in Vietnam
Plan is an NGO partner of the European Commission. This NGO has been working in Vietnam since 1993. This Participatory Video (PV) was developed with ethnic minority children in Vietnam, under a Disaster Risk...
Clearing the air
An information film on how the global humanitarian aid community is working to stop air cargo companies involved in arms trafficking, narcotics and "blood mineral" flows from transporting humanitarian aid supplies.
"Labendela" - Amadou and Mariam
Malian pop-duo and world music stars Amadou & Mariam are the latest celebrity voices to join the fight against global hunger as the new WFP Ambassadors Against Hunger for the European Union...
Europe joins 'Professional Football against Hunger'
The European Commission's humanitarian aid sector (ECHO), has joined with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Association for European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) to raise awareness...
Every drop counts - Drinking water for Kenya
A 12 minutes documentary produced by Welhungerhilfe (German Agro Action), funded by the European Commission - Humanitarian Aid.
Responding to a Rat Flood in Bangladesh
Thousands of rats have descended upon the picturesque Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, destroying crops and threatening the livelihoods of small farmers...
ECHO/UNHCR: solidarity in action
This videoclip has been broadcast in cinemas throughout Greece, Ireland and Holland, giving millions of Europeans the opportunity to discover the leading role played by the European Commission in the financing...
100,000 forgotten refugees in the shadow of the Himalayas
A Euronews "Reporter" magazine. Tens of thousands of Bhutanese fled to south-eastern Nepal in the early 1990s. They have been stuck there in refugee camps for almost two decades. They depend entirely...
Food for refugees from Darfur in Chad
A short story produced by the World Food Program.
UNICEF and the European Commission tackling the needs in Haiti
A video produced by UNICEF, ECHO's partner.