Dutch Relief Alliance

The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) is a coalition of 14 Dutch aid organisations in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The DRA partners are: CARE Nederland; Cordaid; Dorcas; Oxfam Novib; Plan International; Help a Child; Save the Children; SOS Childrens Villages The Netherlands; Stichting Vluchteling; Tearfund NL; Terre des Hommes; War Child; World Vision; and ZOA. The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) partners with the DRA by funding Joint Responses. The DRA was established in 2015 by 10 Dutch humanitarian NGOs, which started cooperating in 2014 on three crises South Sudan, Ebola and Iraq. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ), which was funding the relief projects, saw an opportunity for a large-scale, lean funding model. The NGOs and MFA have since established a mechanism that goes far beyond a fully operational humanitarian funding modality which would have been a major achievement in itself. The DRA is not so much about what we are but ...