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Our Objectives
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To empower deprived communities to improve their access to resources,
social security and institutional services
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To facilitate collective development efforts within communities by
strengthening their organizations through capacity building and by
establishing links to service providing agencies
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To provide communities with relevant skills in technological innovation
in order to foster food security and income-oriented activities
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To promote the production of high value commodities based on comparative
advantages and help set up marketing initiatives for commercializing
on- and off-farm enterprises
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To support the development of an economic infrastructure for the sustainable
intensification of production systems
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To conduct participatory action research based on rural peoples' knowledge
for the generation and dissemination of appropriate technologies for
the better use of farm and forest resources
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To help communities to mobilize and generate their own resources of
inputs and capital
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To enable communities to maintain a healthy environment by abating
pollution and managing biodiversity in a sustainable manner.
Our
Guiding Principles
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Programme priorities should conform with the goal and objectives of
the organization.
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Development must be demand-driven and hence people-centred.
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Interventions must bring socio-economic prosperity to communities
while ensuring social equity with respect to gender and ethnicity,
and environmental sustainability.
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The niches of comparative advantage from geophysical and cultural
diversity must be recognized.
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Institutional autonomy and the intellectual, moral and financial integrity
of the organization must be preserved
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The working strategy must keep pace with the changing context
Our
working strategies
- Participatory
approach: Emphasis on the active participation of the target communities
in the process of project interventions to ensure that their needs
and interests are foremost and that they have ownership of their own
development
- Gender
sensitivity: Involvement of both women and men at every stage of making
decisions and taking actions in the action research and development
process
- Local
capacity building: Technology promotion is linked to the strengthening
of farmers' groups, and development of local resource persons and
local resource centres for sustainable uptake of the interventions.
- Multi-stakeholders
collaboration: In order to consolidate the effectiveness of its efforts,
we actively seek collaboration with other stakeholders including government
departments, non-governmental organizations, corporate and funding
agencies.
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