This article highlights how communities in Karawa, North Ubangi, used World Vision DRC’s Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) approach to identify insecurity as a key concern and peacefully advocate for stronger protection measures. Through community mobilisation, dialogue with authorities and a formal advocacy memorandum, residents demonstrated how informed citizens can influence local governance and contribute to building safer, more resilient communities.

Persons with disabilities make up the world’s largest minority—80% live in low- and middle-income countries. In Asia Pacific alone, nearly 108 million children with disabilities face mounting climate risks, for instance, more treacherous typhoons, floods and heatwaves.

As Ebola cases continue to rise across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the humanitarian response is at a critical turning point. In a recent media interview with Al Jazeera Media Network, World Vision DRC's East Zone Director, David Munkley, warned that the outbreak has exceeded all expectations, with daily cases increasing dramatically and the disease spreading into new health zones. He highlighted the urgent need for greater investment in prevention, community engagement and frontline health services, stressing that trusted local voices - including faith leaders, schools, community leaders and health workers - are essential to building confidence and helping communities adopt life-saving measures. Above all, he called for stronger support to protect children and families who remain at the heart of this crisis. Watch the full interview below and join us in raising awareness of the urgent need for collective action.

Factsheet 2025 Engaging Citizens to Improve Service Delivery Through Social Accountability Project

This policy brief on public debt utilisation in Kenya and Zambia, examining how borrowed resources translate into development outcomes

World Vision Ghana, in partnership with the National NTD Programme, is strengthening community-based surveillance and care for neglected tropical diseases through the training of frontline health workers, improving early detection, referrals, NHIS enrolment and access to essential healthcare services.

When the Empowered Worldview (EWV) training came to Maridi, Rhoda was mobilized along with 74 others. She was placed in the first group, one of the earliest to sit through the three-day training. She did not know it yet, but those three days would undo years of quiet self-doubt. The sessions moved through identity, vision, relationships, the roots of poverty, and mindset change grounded in biblical reflection. Two stories struck something in her: Moses and the staff in his hand (Exodus 4:1–5), and the widow whose jars of oil never ran dry (2 Kings 4:1–7).