IMVF Annual Report 2020
OPENING NOTE In 2020, we pursued the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr’s main strands of action, with the development of various development cooperation projects in several countries, with an emphasis on global citizenship activities, by supporting the work of local authorities and civil society, in Portugal and in other countries, and through actions and partnerships for the promotion of reflection and debate on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the global challenges that we are currently facing. We seek to guide our actions in accordance with the dual interests and aspirations of the most vulnerable populations and with actions aiming at the planet’s sustainability. We respect the principles that guide our activity, namely the respect for human dignity and the establishment of partnerships and other forms of collaboration with public, private and civil society entities in the countries and places where we work. We keep working in the countries and areas of intervention where we operate, on the assumption of consolidating and maintaining the quality of our intervention and of an enlargement policy to new areas and territories/geographical areas, based on capacity building, the establishment of partnerships and financial sustainability. On one hand, in 2020 we acknowledge the continuity of factors that we had already characterised in last year’s Report “(...) the impact of populist nationalism in several states, both in Europe and beyond, with hostility towards migrants and isolationism (...). Climate change, extremism movements and the escalation in social and ethnic tensions in several countries are also major obstacles to our work, even when it is aimed precisely at mitigating risk factors”.
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