Our vision and values
Our vision is for a sustainable and just world, where people are empowered to overcome poverty and hunger and fully realise their rights and potential.
Values
Our values underpin our goals and all of the work we undertake to achieve them:
Sustainability
Ensuring that our interventions bring real benefits over the long term, are environmentally sound and address the causes of poverty rather than just the symptoms.
Effectiveness
Using public resources efficiently and effectively, providing value for money and focusing our efforts on achieving sustainable results in the lives of those experiencing poverty.
Equality
Advancing equal opportunities and equality, with no discrimination of any kind, and addressing inequalities in a systematic way.
Human rights
Defending the universal and indivisible nature of human rights by promoting and protecting them in all our efforts.
Accountability
Being accountable to Irish citizens, to those people benefitting from our support, and being transparent in all that we do. Read about where the money goes.
Partnership
Strengthening partnerships built on mutual trust and supporting development that is locally owned and led.
Coherence
Striving for a coherent approach to development across all government departments by building synergies between policies