The initial PCD tools were built here and the programme was launched in 2000 as an OD tool aiming to bring the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies
closer to the vulnerable people, develop capacity in communities and thus decrease their vulnerability.
Like
VCA,
another RC/RC participatory
tool, PCD has shown that, in addition to its initial purpose it has a strong effect in reducing social exclusion, marginalization and discrimination. This is our contribution to our
Global Agenda
goals 3 and 4.