SNV supports local actors on order to help them strengthen their performance in the effective realisation of poverty reduction and good governance.
Our 2007-2015 Strategy sets out our course of action for the coming years. It outlines a corporate vision of our role and place in reducing poverty and improving governance. It focuses on who we are, what we do, how we relate to others, and how we will go about developing our relations and way of working.
Core elements of the 2007-2015 Strategy are:
- Orientating our activities on creating impact in two areas, basic services and income, production & employment, and focus on specific targets within these impact areas in the context of national development priorities.
- Engaging strongly with local capacity builders, as they are essential to the sustainability of poverty reduction efforts and thus to our success.
- Keeping advisory services as the core, but as these are insufficient to help achieve impact on their own, we complement these with additional 'delivery channels'.
- Taking 'governance for empowerment' as a concept and body of expertise that is critical across all our work.
- Seeing clients as part of broader actor constellations and help strengthen micro-macro linkages in order to accelerate impact on poverty and governance.
- Diversifying substantially our partnerships and resources to leverage our expertise for increased impact.
- Sharpening our drive for quality in staff, work processes and result measurement.