Our approach to poverty alleviation is reflected in the central elements of our corporate strategy. This strategy commenced in 2007 and will take us as an organisation through to 2015. It sets out access to basic services and increased production, income and employment as the two impact areas in which we work.

Our focus on basic services (including the provision of clean drinking water, education, sanitation and hygiene) is based on the fact that for millions of people in the countries where we work, improvements in living standards depend on the capacity of governments and institutions to deliver these services.

When institutions fail, poor people suffer.

Our focus on increased production, income and employment (including in the agriculture, livestock, horticulture sectors) is based on the knowledge that successful poverty reduction depends upon the eradication of economic and social disadvantage, and the promotion of pro-poor solutions.

Helping people achieve their own futures is an empowering act.