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SMC hopes to restore payments to its affected member organisations with up to 90% of this year’s grants.

We commit ourselves to: Act and practice what we preach, and to become protectors of this earth, to strive to live in harmony and sustainability, through our daily actions, how we invest, how we manage assets, and how we engage within our faith communities.

The SMC Board decided on May 30 on how the Swedish government’s reduction of this year’s budget for foreign development assistance will be handled in the network. The decision concerns SMC’s largest grant from Sida, which promotes long-term development efforts through civil society.

In May, the UN will hold the GP2022 conference with a focus on reducing the risk of disasters. SMC will participate with a delegation that has experience of both being affected and combating climate change.

We were happy to see 170 participants at this year’s digital SMC Network Inspirational Day. Speakers from our global network shared their experiences of how innovation, networking and green transition make us “Stronger Together”.

Alan AtKisson is inspired by faith-based organisations’ experience in innovation – it spans over thousands of years! On February 7th he joins our Network Inspirational Day to tell us more.

Sida believes that SMC and its network are a good partner in Swedish development assistance, but that the pace of change in certain processes must increase.

At the time of writing, it is still unclear how we will remember Cop26 in Glasgow. The meeting is in full swing as I write this. What we do know is that we will have heard a lot of big words.