A practical agenda for dignity, participation and resilience.
IPF's original objectives bring together rights, education, health, women’s empowerment, children’s wellbeing, governance and environmental conservation.
Community participation is at the centre.
Protect rights & equality
Eliminate female genital mutilation, child marriage and gender discrimination while strengthening social justice.
Expand education
Provide access to education for poor and needy children and strengthen community capacity around schools.
Strengthen health
Build community capacity around health centres, reproductive and sexual health and family planning.
Empower women
Support women’s empowerment for sustainable development through opportunity, information, skills and resources.
Protect children
Address child labour concerns and strengthen children’s rights and wellbeing.
Protect the environment
Support environmental conservation and strengthen community capacity for climate resilience.
Strengthen local leadership
Build institutional leadership, cohesion, dialogue, governance and accountability.
Increase civic participation
Encourage girls and women to participate in civic, political and legislative processes through education and advocacy.
Build community capacity
Support communities around construction and improvement of pre-primary, primary and secondary schools and health facilities.
Advance human rights
Increase awareness of rights and support action when those rights are violated.
Reduce HIV/AIDS exclusion
Contribute to reducing discrimination and exclusion linked to HIV/AIDS.
Support vulnerable families
Strengthen opportunity for widows, orphans and families experiencing poverty.
The agenda is interconnected.
IPF's source material does not treat education, gender, health, livelihoods and the environment as isolated issues. They sit within a broader effort to strengthen participation, opportunity and community resilience.
That makes the objectives useful as a framework for supporters and partners who want to understand the organisation's wider direction.
