Danish Refugee Council reviews

Bureaucracy & slow processes — Some complain that decision-making and official processes are slow due to layers of approvals. Inconsistent handovers/transition issues — New staff sometimes inherit work or cases without proper handover. Contract uncertainties / funding constraints — As with many NGOs, contracts may be tied to project funding, leading to job insecurity.

- A job creation scheme for underqualified "humanitarians"... very few people with the intellectual and moral prerequisites for senior management (e.g. Country Directors that are inexperienced women or less than mediocre white men with no qualifications for the job but are Europeans) - extremely poor salary and benefit packages for national staff (e.g. below market pay, continuously offering 4-5 months contracts at a time, in some countries health insurance that doesn't cover critical illnesses like cancer). result is low retention, and low capacity level of national staff. - very inefficient and poor value for money, behind all the talk, little gets to target populations (most goes in salaries and benefits, car rentals, HQ and overhead, etc) - high tolerance for all-around mediocrity, little accountability at all levels, poor, weak leadership from area-level to Copenhagen - a literal revolving door of staff, both national and international - very poor retention - Though it tries to diversity donor sources, practically no flexible/core funding but Danida, which is dwindling - unlikely to survive the current funding climate.