To reduce the impact of poverty, displacement and disaster by delivering practical programmes that communities have asked for and can sustain after we leave.
What that means in practice
A mission statement is only useful if it can be used to refuse things. Ours rules out four categories of work.
- Anything nobody asked for. If a community committee has not requested it, we do not fund it, however good the idea looks from a distance.
- Anything that cannot be maintained. Equipment without a service route and a trained caretaker is a liability handed to somebody with fewer resources than us.
- Anything we cannot measure. Every programme commits to an outcome at launch and is reported against it, including when the answer is uncomfortable.
- Anything that displaces local capability. Where a local contractor, supplier or clinician can do the work, they do the work.
Our commitments to donors
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