Livelihood and economic empowerment
Building household income that lasts, by supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses with mentorship, access to capital and training, to create robust and inclusive local economies.
Thirteen areas of work, one method
Every area begins the same way, with inquiry. What a community reports needing, and what the data independently shows, decide what we build and how large we build it.
Protection and social reintegration
Protecting people exposed to conflict, displacement and exploitation, and supporting their reintegration into community life through sustainable protective mechanisms.
Gender equality and social inclusion
Making sure programmes reach the people most often left out, including women, young people, people with disabilities and displaced households, and that they shape the work rather than receive it.
Peacebuilding and social cohesion
Building safe, resilient communities through conflict mediation and prevention, and by strengthening the cohesion that holds groups together under pressure.
Advocacy and policy influencing
Carrying community-level evidence into the rooms where policy and financing are decided, at state, national and regional level.
Monitoring, evaluation, research and learning
Rigorous inquiry that generates the data, insights and scalable innovations informing effective development strategy, and that says plainly when something did not work.
Public health
Health equity and well-being: strengthening health systems, combating infectious disease, and securing community access to essential services and health education.
Climate change
Fostering climate resilience by designing adaptation and mitigation strategies, promoting sustainable resource management and reducing environmental risk.
Smart agriculture
Food security through innovation, deploying data-driven farming technology to optimise resource use, raise yields and build profitable, climate-smart agricultural systems.
Counter wildlife trafficking
Protecting biodiversity by combating illegal wildlife trade through enforcement capacity building, community engagement and conservation that preserves ecosystems.
Combating illegal mining
Tackling unlicensed and unsafe extraction by supporting enforcement, restoring damaged land, and opening safer livelihoods for the communities drawn into it.
Education
Improving access to quality education, with initiatives focused on teacher training, curriculum development and skills enhancement for lifelong learning.
Promotion of mineral resources investment and trade
Opening the formal minerals sector to responsible investment and legitimate trade, so that value from extraction reaches the communities the resource sits under.
How a programme runs
Inquiry, then design, then delivery, then handover
This one genuinely is a sequence, and skipping a step is how development programmes end up with a photograph instead of an outcome.
Inquiry
We start by asking, and by counting. Field assessment establishes what a community reports needing and what the data independently shows, including where those two disagree.
Design
A programme is designed against those findings with the people who will run it, sized to what can realistically be sustained once external funding ends.
Delivery
Inputs, training and support are delivered together. Equipment without capability, or capability without equipment, produces a photograph rather than an outcome.
Handover
The structures created, from groups and committees to routes to market, pass to the community holding them, and the result is documented so the next programme starts better informed.
Alignment
Where our work sits against the Sustainable Development Goals
Our goal statement commits us to the SDGs. This is the mapping we hold ourselves to.
- Livelihood and economic empowermentSDG 8: Decent work and economic growth
- Protection and social reintegrationSDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
- Gender equality and social inclusionSDG 5: Gender equality
- Peacebuilding and social cohesionSDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
- Advocacy and policy influencingSDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
- Monitoring, evaluation, research and learningSDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
- Public healthSDG 3: Good health and well-being
- Climate changeSDG 13: Climate action
- Smart agricultureSDG 2: Zero hunger
- Counter wildlife traffickingSDG 15: Life on land
- Combating illegal miningSDG 12: Responsible consumption and production
- EducationSDG 4: Quality education
- Promotion of mineral resources investment and tradeSDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Fund one of these areas
Support goes to a named area of work, and the record of what it paid for is published alongside it.