ActionAid - Organizational Values

Organizational Values

ActionAid’s values are as follows:

• Mutual respect: Requiring ActionAid to recognize the innate worth of all people and the value of diversity
• Equity and justice: Requiring ActionAid to work to ensure equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, HIV status, color, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion
• Honesty and transparency: being accountable at all levels for the effectiveness of the organization’s actions and open in its judgments and communications with others
• Solidarity with the poor: The powerless and excluded will be the only bias in ActionAid’s commitment to the fight against poverty
• Courage of conviction: Requiring ActionAid to be creative and radical, bold and innovative – without fear of failure – in the pursuit of making the greatest possible impact on the causes of poverty
• Independence: Independence from any religious or party-political affiliation
• Humility: Humility in ActionAid’s presentation and behavior, recognizing that the organization is part of a wider alliance against poverty.

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