•  Promote Empowerment

We stand in solidarity with poor and marginalized children and women and support their efforts to take control of their lives and fulfill their rights, responsibilities and aspirations. We ensure that key participants and organizations representing affected children and women are partners in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of our programs.

•  Work with Partners

We work with others to maximize the impact of our programs, building alliances and partnerships with those who offer complementary approaches, are able to adopt effective programming approaches on a larger scale, and or who have responsibility to fulfill rights and reduce violence and poverty through policy change and enforcement.

•  Ensure Accountability and Promote Responsibility

We seek ways to be accountable to poor and marginalized children and women whose rights are denied. We identify individuals and institutions with an obligation toward poor and marginalized children and women, and support and encourage their efforts to fulfill their responsibilities.

•  Address Discrimination

In our programs and offices, we address discrimination and the denial of rights based on sex, caste, race, ethnicity, class, religion, age, education, physical disability, and victims of violence.

•  Promote Non – Violent Conflict Resolution

We promote just and non-violent means for preventing and resolving conflicts at all levels, noting that such conflicts contribute to poverty and the denial of rights.

•  Seek Sustainable Results

As we address underlying causes of violence, rights denial and poverty, we develop and use approaches that ensure our programs result in lasting and fundamental improvements in the lives of the poor and marginalized children and women with whom we work.