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Strategies for Change:
The Foundation believes that support for the following strategies will be most effective in bringing about the desired change. They are:
- Networking/building partnerships
- Organising
- Facilitating education
- Advocacy
- Lobbying & Campaigns (including media)
- Litigation
- Capacity Building/TA (Technical Assistance)
- Supporting Dialogue
- Policy change/development (including research for)
- Developing an evidence base (research)
- Documentation & Dissemination
Programme Principles:
The Foundation believes that certain processes and principles are important to the success of any project aimed at engendering fundamental change.
Project must be:
- People centred (about people, not a commodity or a sector)
- Empowering of citizens
- Responsive and participatory
- Holistic (addressing the entire system, understanding linkages and need for coordination)
- Sustainable
- Strengths based
- Cogniscent of micro-macro links (projects as learning sites)
- Conducted in partnership (between civil society organisations or different Government depts. Or between civil society and Government)
- Long term & flexible
At the heart of The Foundation’s programme models is the belief that an evidence base is needed and that this evidence base must be well documented and widely disseminated if this change is to be systemic.
The Foundation is committed to long-term partnerships. Where The Foundation is not able to be a long-term partner it emphasizes the need for exit plans or sustainability plans beyond The Foundation's support.
The Foundation will fund pilot projects but they must demonstrate two things:
- A foundation for what they are doing or planning and
- An indication of how the pilot will be rolled out
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