Our Mission

Mission Statement:
Our role in Malawi is to support the improvement of livelihoods and capacities of poor and marginalized households through:

• Understanding and addressing the root causes of poverty,
• Promoting participatory development which ensures equal rights and opportunities for all,
• Brokering an innovative range of partnerships that influence policies, strategies and practices, and,
• Demonstrating and advocating replicable development approaches.

In all of this, we aim to bring hope to the poor.

Vision Statement:
CARE Malawi will be recognized as a dynamic learning organization, with unique approaches to programming that demonstrate impact, and the ability to build and nurture strategic partnerships, in the advancement of people’s rights to secure livelihoods.

Program Purpose:
Secured livelihoods and human dignity.

Programming Principles

Principle 1: Promote Empowerment: We stand in solidarity with poor and marginalized people, and support their efforts to take control of their own lives and fulfill their rights, responsibilities and aspirations. We ensure that key participants and organisations representing affected people are partners in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of our programmes.

Principle 2: Work with partners: We work with others to maximize the impact of our programs, building alliances and partnerships with those who offer complementary approaches, are able to adopt effective programming approaches on a larger scale, and/or who have responsibility to fulfill rights and reduce poverty through policy change and enforcement.

Principle 3: Ensure Accountability and Promote Responsibility: We seek ways to be held accountable to poor and marginalized people whose rights are denied. We identify individuals and institutions with an obligation toward poor and marginalized people, and support and encourage their efforts to fulfill their responsibilities.

Principle 4: Address Discrimination: In our programs and offices we address discrimination and the denial of rights based on sex, race, nationality, ethnicity, class, religion, age, physical ability, caste, opinion or sexual orientation.

Principle 5: Promote the non-violent resolution of conflicts: We promote just and non-violent means for preventing and resolving conflicts at all levels, noting that such conflicts contribute to poverty and the denial of rights.

Principle 6: Seek Sustainable Results: As we address underlying causes of poverty and rights denial, we develop and use approaches that ensure our programmes result in lasting and fundamental improvements in the lives of the poor and marginalized with whom we work.