ICT PARTNERSHIP

At ICT we partner with local organisations that take an integrated approach to child development and we take responsibility for building sustainability into the projects we support. Practical assistance includes supporting direct benefits to disadvantaged children, their families and communities, e.g., primary health care, income generation schemes, vocational training and rehabilitation of children back into families and communities. We encourage capacity building in all the projects that we support, so that our partners are able to grow into strong organisations in their own right and not become dependent on us. Advocacy initiatives are supported, so local communities and governments in Africa and Asia become aware of their rights and take responsibility for addressing their own problems.

As a small organisation, one of our advantages is that we can get the whole system communicating in one room, including donor representatives, the ICT Team (including Trustees and other volunteers) and partner representatives. Mutual accountability fosters more sustainable organisations that bring long-term benefits to vulnerable children, their families and their communities. We wish to deepen our experience of working as more of network or ‘web’ (rather than as a hub and satellites) and share the benefits with others.

Each year, ICT sets common goals with each of our partner organisations. From an ICT perspective, principles that have been vital to the way in which we have developed partnerships are:

1. trust and transparency;
2. participation;
3. mutual respect, quality communication and learning;
4. long-term commitment to shared values and goals; and
5. integrated approach toward sustainability.