To strengthen the civil society sector by promoting mutual accountability, effective partnership, participatory capacity development and moderate impact in crisis.
The interests and rights of Yemeni people – regardless of gender, age, disability, social or economic background – are at the center of social, economic and political development.
* Equity– Equity is a position, organizational commitment and an arrangement. Itar has to address equity within its own organization, CSOs and government, private sector and society.
*Transparency – Simply, to write about achievements and setbacks and share with partners, funders and communities. Invite them for critics. It is hard to be transparent about your shortcomings, but it’s essential to building trust.
* Sector’s Independency– Bring together the civil society spectrum: associations, foundations, union, researchers and other civic individuals or groups along with private sector’s corporations, medium and small enterprise to advance the common good and powerful and independent methods.
* Human Capital – Based on social development’s principles of invest in people, empowerment and inclusion, Itar believes in human capital management not human resources management as achieving organization’s success is nothing but humans’ time, skills and outputs.
* Transformative Feminist Leadership – At organizational levels, systems and structures must be intersectional, intergenerational and supports facilitating and encouraging leadership of women and young people, strong relationships, positive use of power, collaboration and inclusion.
Under the conflict and humanitarian situation in Yemen since 2015, which created collapse of state institutions, Yemeni CSOs are trying to fill the gap especially in humanitarian response, Though, the political and economic constrains make it difficult for CSOs to continue functioning on an effective level. Therefore, Itar’s focus in 2018 to 2020 is to support CSOs now and invest seriously into human and organizational capacity building and moderate dialogue and partnership between government and CSOs for conflict resolution and resilience of both parties.
1. To strengthen CSOs external accountability, impact and influence, while internally strengthening staff capacities and institutional development.
2. To advocate for meaningful partnerships between CSOs, local communities, governmental entities and the private sector, as well as regional and international stakeholders and donors.
3. To facilitate partnerships and networks across civil society that encourage broad participation of CSOs, elevating their unique voices and skills.
4. To streamline the business and digital reformative process of CSOs and ways of working.