mission

Purpose:

To help eliminate poverty, protect human rights and preserve the environment through supporting progressive organisations to increase their effectiveness in advocacy, campaigning and communications.

 Values and beliefs:

 We believe that:

• Chronic poverty is unacceptable in the 21^st Century, and can be overcome through harnessing public opinion and political will.

• The abuse of human rights, whether political, civil, social, economic or cultural, is a crime that should not be tolerated.

• Sustainable elimination of poverty is only possible if all people have their human rights respected and fulfilled.

• We all have a responsibility to help make this a reality.

In the struggle between the weak and the powerful, to do nothing is not to be neutral; it is to side with the powerful against the weak.

We also believe that:

• All people have equal value, but priority should be given to the needs of those particularly disadvantaged.

• The poor and the oppressed are best placed to determine their own needs and priorities.

• We can all learn from each other.

We aim to work in ways that:

• Build the capacity of the groups we are involved with so their efforts can be sustained.

• Identify appropriate solutions and courses of action in partnership with these groups, rather than imposing standard solutions out of a box.

• Are of the highest quality possible.

 June 2000