Christian Aid annual report and accounts 2019/20

Our staff and partners had to adapt quickly to with faith leaders and other lockdown and change their ways of working to ensure the partners to raise awareness of the safety both of themselves and the communities they support. [...] our funding model, to the health and wellbeing of our • We rapidly adapted our humanitarian, development and staff and partners, to civil society space and most advocacy work to ensure relevant and effective programme importantly to those communities that suffer the most response to the pandemic. [...] The countries in which we operate • We work with and through local partners, faith-based Working in challenging and insecure locations and organisations and other actors with roots in local contexts risks our personal and financial security, our communities in the implementation of our work; we invest in reputation and our accountability to perform impactful maintaining access to up-to-date inform. [...] COVID-19 The restrictions arising due to the pandemic did not materially The majority of our impact the results for the financial year to 31 March 2020 but will impact the results of the year to 31 March 2021, primarily existing project field work due to the curtailment and cancellation of a number of has been able to continue activities associated with Christian Aid Week, a major fundraising even. [...] Towards the end of 2019/20, a sub-group of trustees started to support the leadership teams of Christian Aid and Christian Aid Ireland in the planned revision of the Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties, with the intention to further devolve accountabilities from the main board of Christian Aid to the board of Christian Aid Ireland.