Effectiveness Report

The 2021 Tearfund Effectiveness Report explores the work of our partners as they have faced the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year.

Our partners have continued to work among some of the poorest and most marginalised communities in the world, many of which are not only dealing with the pandemic’s effects but are also being impacted by ongoing or worsening conflict, and climate disasters. Yet, by God’s grace, partners also tell stories of hope, life, and new opportunities.

In our 2021 Effectiveness Report you will see the numbers of people that have been impacted by the work of our partners over the past financial year, mapped against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As well as presenting numbers, we share case studies in this report to seek to bring the numbers to life, and we hope that through these stories from our project areas and partners we can see God at work. The report also includes:

• Tearfund Australia's work in achieving a validated self-assessment against the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). The CHS facilitates greater accountability to people affected by crisis: knowing what humanitarian organisations have committed to enables people to hold organisations to account.
• Tearfund has sought to be a facilitator of networks and a connector between partners. This has resulted in initiatives to enable partners to listen and learn from one another, with examples seen in:
  • Learning forums
  • Mental Health Community of Practice
  • Africa regional catch-ups
• An update from Tearfund's involvement with Renew Our World, a global Christian movement and campaign that has a vision for a fair and sustainable world in which love for neighbour and care of Creation go hand in hand.