Annual report: Misereor

Our Annual Report offers detailed facts and figures, demonstrating how we responsibly use your donations to support projects benefiting people living in poverty worldwide. Learn about our fiscal year.

Annual Report 2025 Income & Expenditure 2025 in Pictures: A Year in Review

In 2025, 89.7 per cent of our expenditure went towards project work, campaigns and educational activities. We spent 10.3 per cent on advertising and administration.

In 2025, Misereor received 233.7 million euros, including funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and was thus able to support project work and advocacy in over 80 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania.

We would like to extend our special thanks to our donors and supporters: together, they have donated a total of 60 million euros to Misereor and have supported our work with their ideas. This benefits our partners worldwide. With their experience and tireless commitment, they ensure that the money reaches where it is most needed.

The annual report contains a number of examples of how the funds have been used in our project work.

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Annual Report 2025

Annual Report by the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., the Catholic Central Office for…

Annual Report by the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., the Catholic Central Office for Global Development e.V. and the Hélder Câmara Foundation.

Year of publication: 2026
Pages: 48
Publisher: Misereor

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Annual Report by the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., the Catholic Central Office for Global Development e.V. and the Hélder Câmara Foundation.

Year of publication: 2026
Pages: 48
Publisher: Misereor

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Are you looking for the 2025 Annual Report, including the balance sheet? You can find it here:

Annual Report and Financial Statements (PDF)

How high were the revenues and how high were the expenditures? How many projects were approved and what proportion of the funding is used for administrative costs?

An overview of our revenue in 2025 (PDF)

The development of income from donations, church budget funds and public funds at a glance.

Statistical Overview 2016–2025 (PDF)

How have Misereor’s projects changed people’s lives? This question is investigated by independent evaluation teams. They visit the projects supported by Misereor and analyse their objectives and impacts. We publish the results of their investigations annually in our Annual Evaluation Report.

Annual Evaluation Report 2025

An overview of the evaluations carried out for Misereor in 2025.

Publisher: Misereor
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An overview of the evaluations carried out for Misereor in 2025.

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Year of publication: 2026
Number of pages: 29

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An overview of the evaluations carried out for Misereor in 2025.

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Year of publication: 2026
Number of pages: 29

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Misereor’s work is based on a global network of more than 1,600 partner organisations in over 80 countries. In Nepal, project partner Bina Buddhacharya is discussing matters with Januka Pokharel, head of the Thapathali Slum Committee.

© Egbert/Misereor

A tough day’s work in the south: smallholder Aide Niño Mija is harvesting sugar cane in a field in Peru.

© Kopp/Misereor

Developing prospects and shaping a future with dignity: Soap is produced and sold in Côte d'Ivoire.

© Flitner/Misereor

Greater transparency: The political and social situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spiralling downwards. In citizens’ forums, the public and those in power discuss social issues.

© CEPAS/Misereor

More than 30 years of war and violent conflict have left lasting damage to the social fabric of Cambodia . Trained staff provide a space for a healing engagement with history.

© Mandelartz/Misereor

Addressing injustices through intergenerational dialogue, remembrance and educational work: as part of a Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia, survivors recount their experiences of past violence.

© Mandelartz/Misereor

Misereor partners such as the “Fundación Eclesial Agroecología y Fe” in Bolivia organise training courses in organic farming. In 2025, over 700 completed projects were reviewed to ensure that objectives had been met and funds had been used correctly.

© Soteras Jalil/Misereor

Street children are working in a vegetable garden on the roof of the Pequenos Profetas project in Recife, Brazil. The Pequenos Profetas community combines education with political activism for young people.

© Kopp/Misereor

Annual report 2024

Annual Report of the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., Catholic Centre for Global…

Annual Report of the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. and Hélder Câmara Foundation.

- Year of publication: 2025

- Pages: 48

- Misereor

Further information:

[Balance 2024 of the Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-katholische-zentralstelle-fuer-globale-entwicklung-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 Episcopal relief organisation Misereor (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-misereor-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 of the Helder Camara Foundation (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-helder-camara-stiftung-2024.pdf)

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Annual Report of the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. and Hélder Câmara Foundation.

- Year of publication: 2025

- Pages: 48

- Misereor

Further information:

[Balance 2024 of the Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-katholische-zentralstelle-fuer-globale-entwicklung-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 Episcopal relief organisation Misereor (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-misereor-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 of the Helder Camara Foundation (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-helder-camara-stiftung-2024.pdf)

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Annual report 2024

Annual Report of the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., Catholic Centre for Global…

Annual Report of the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. and Hélder Câmara Foundation.

- Year of publication: 2025

- Pages: 48

- Misereor

Further information:

[Balance 2024 of the Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-katholische-zentralstelle-fuer-globale-entwicklung-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 Episcopal relief organisation Misereor (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-misereor-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 of the Helder Camara Foundation (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-helder-camara-stiftung-2024.pdf)

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Annual Report of the Episcopal Relief Organisation Misereor e.V., Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. and Hélder Câmara Foundation.

- Year of publication: 2025

- Pages: 48

- Misereor

Further information:

[Balance 2024 of the Catholic Centre for Global Development e.V. (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-katholische-zentralstelle-fuer-globale-entwicklung-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 Episcopal relief organisation Misereor (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-misereor-2024.pdf)

[Balance sheet 2024 of the Helder Camara Foundation (PDF)](https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/user_upload/5_Ueber_Misereor/3_Transparenz/1_Jahresbericht/bilanz-helder-camara-stiftung-2024.pdf)

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2023 Annual Report

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Published by: Misereor
Year of publication: 2024
Pages: 60

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2022 Annual Report

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Year of publication: 2023
Pages: 68

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Year of publication: 2023
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2021 Annual report

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Year of publication: 2022
Pages: 68

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Year of publication: 2022
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2020 Annual Report

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Year of publication: 2021
Pages: 68

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Year of publication: 2021
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2019 Annual Report

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Year of publication: 2020
Pages: 60

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2018 Annual Report

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Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 60

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2017 Annual Report

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Year of publication: 2018
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Year of publication: 2018
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2016 Annual Report

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Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 64

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Year of publication: 2017
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Our Board of Directors is composed of our three managers: Andreas Frick, Annette Ptassek and Bernd Bornhorst.

Since 2014, Stephan Burger, Archbishop of the Diocese of Freiburg, has headed the Bishops’ Subcommission for Development Issues, which oversees Misereor.

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