Cultivate community engagement and ownership.

Awareness is not enough to get people to own an intervention. We need to ensure interventions happen with constituencies and not to them. Community members need to be co-creators who bring a legitimate perspective and agency to the work. Their aspirations and concerns must be considered at every stage of decision making and they need to be meaningfully involved in the roll-out of the work. Community engagement and ownership is not simply a means to an end, but fundamentally an end in itself. If we do not intentionally hold ourselves accountable to working with the agency in communities and developing local capacity to lead, we will miss an important opportunity to secure the sustainability of our work.

five-year aim: