Photo Credit: Forest Woodward
Core Values:
- Responsibility
- Respect
- Transparency
- Solidarity
We have identified the following crosscutting themes/issues that apply in all areas of the Strategic Plan:
1. Growth:
By 2013 El Porvenir will provide sustainable water, sanitation, reforestation, and health education to at least 120 communities, an estimated 18,000 people per year.
- Remain focused on projects and serving the people that need our help the most, poor rural families
- Control administrative and overhead costs so as not to grow beyond current levels, as a percentage of the budget
- Add two new regions in the next five years if funding is available
- Close the water and sanitation programs in one or two older regions as they reach a high level of water coverage and no longer receive sufficient new requests to make the region viable
2. Improving how we work:
We will improve overall methodology and practice of our monitoring and evaluation processes.
- Collect historical baseline and current data for each of our existing regions
- Collect baseline data before opening a region, collect data periodically and monitor how we are doing
- Do periodic evaluations of past projects to show the impact our projects have on the families, their health and their local environments
- Identify best practices to replicate in new regions and to improve continually the quality of the work we do
