Press Releases

In response to today’s Budget 2015 announcement, Dóchas, the network of Ireland’s overseas development NGOs, said it is disappointed that despite the economic recovery, the Government has failed to make progress towards the UN overseas aid target of... Read more

On Thursday 25th September, Irish TDs and Senators, along with the members of Dóchas, the Irish aid agency umbrella body, launched the 2014 print edition of the “World’s Best News”, an Irish NGO good news paper. Read more

Dóchas, the umbrella body of Irish overseas development agencies, today welcomed the announcement by President Michael D. Higgins that his Ethics Initiative will partner with Ireland’s civil society organisations and overseas development NGOs in its... Read more

Irish overseas aid agencies today called on the Government to ensure it made no further cuts to the overseas aid budget and to set out how it will meet the 0.7% ODA/GNI target it had originally committed to achieving by 2015.   Read more

A new Ipsos MRBI opinion poll commissioned by Dóchas, the umbrella body of Irish aid agencies, has found that a large majority of Irish people - 75% - think that even in an economic downturn Ireland has an obligation to invest in overseas aid.   Read more

In a statement today, the members of Dóchas, the umbrella body of Irish overseas aid agencies, welcomed the announcement of the merger of development agencies Self Help Africa and Gorta.    Read more

Dóchas, the network of Ireland’s Development NGOs, today announced that its 50 member organisations have elected Sharan Kelly, Chief Executive of Tearfund Ireland as the new Chairperson of Dóchas.   Read more