Our focus is not on unrestrained growth of our work – it is on the quality of relationships we build with the partners we do have. Thus, we work with a smaller number of partners in a trust-based and relational way rather than offering fast-tracked, superficial opportunities to as many people as possible.
This ensures that people from impacted communities are at the forefront of creating and implementing solutions that address their needs. Our meaningful engagement workstream includes resources and training to support both impacted people and the organisations in their communities. See The Meaningful Engagement Toolbox.
We are strongly committed to knowledge-sharing and engage in community-driven research that guides how we do our work. What we learn how to do through research (as well as experience), we prepare others to take over. An example of this in action is our Meaningful Engagement Organisational Coach Training, which prepares people from impacted communities to provide training and technical assistance on our co-created framework, thus housing responsibility and care for our framework in the community itself.
To build grassroots activists’ organising skills and to support ethical narrative initiatives among impacted people. We provide education to support activists in building movement organising skills. This year, we are also partnering with young feminist activists to re-envision our commitments to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) to include youth voices, youth activism, and youth leadership.
In our work to make sure that we are handing down values to future generations of organisers that allow them to practice (rather than just fight for) liberation. This means providing our partners with spaces for connection and regeneration, rather than just productivity. We see our care fellowship and the collaboratively-developed care curriculum emerging from it as a model for allowing all generative work to begin with creative rest and exploration.
