Diakonie Austria

National Network
Austria
Address

Steinergasse 3/12
1170 vienna
Austria

Telephone
+43 1 402 67 54
Fax
+43 1 402 67 54 - 16
E-Mail
iha@diakonie.at
Website
http://www.diakonie.at/auslandshilfe
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2009
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
General Information
Diakonie Austria has been established in 2009 out of of Diakonie Österreich (established 1968). Staff: 2 persons in the project department and support from the Diakonie network with one person each (part time) for fundraising, accounting, public relations. The yearly budget of Diakonie Austria ranges from € 800.000 to € 4.000.000 depending on the level of budget for Humanitarian crisis. Sources of funding are the Austrian Development Cooperation, European Union, foundations and private donors. Projects in Development Cooperation are located mainly in Palestine and Former Yugoslavia and in the field of support for people with disabilities and nonviolent conflict resolution; awareness raising for the conflict in Middle East has been the aim of youth camps with teenagers from Israel/Palestine/Austria for the last three years. Partners: eg. protestant organisations in Austria, Parents Circle Families Forum (Israel/Palestine), Music Schools in Israel and Palestine
Mission and Objectives

Diakonie Austria develops and promotes development cooperation projects with the aim of combating poverty and enabling sustainable improvements in the living standards of people from the so-called ‘Third World’ countries. Our work focuses on the key areas of; people with disabilities, training and education and conflict management within civil society.
Diakonie Austria projects aim to strengthen the independence and enterprise of the beneficiaries. For this reason, all projects are developed and implemented in cooperation with a local partner organisation. We see the people who live in and work on our projects as equal partners, with whom we share an on-going and mutual learning process. In this way, the long-term sustainability of the projects is assured.
We strive towards a fairer world. In crisis regions, this means that we engage to support organisations facilitating dialogue between parties from opposing sides of a conflict.

Main Projects / Activities

Frameworkprogram to support people with Disabilities to get access to education and labour (Palestine and Bosnia Herzegowina)
Ressource Centre for People with Disabilities in Voivodina (Serbia)
Networking conference in Prague "Assistive Technologies and the labour market"
Workshops focusing on nonviolent conflict resolution for women (Palestine)
Workshops for pupils promoting mutual understanding and peace in Israel and Palestine
Youth camps in Austria for Austrian/Hungarian/Palestinian and Israeli teenagers
Musicamp in Austria for Palestinian/Israeli and Austrian teenagers

Contact (1) Full Name
Dagmar Lassmann
Head of the organisation
Michael Bubik (CEO)