Cafdaro Quality Standards
Cafdaro aims to work to the highest possible standards with integrity and transparency. In line with our Quality Standards, we have summarized all of the pertinent values and principles to which we are committed:
- Advocacy
We are committed to influencing key decision-makers to make and implement policies and practices that work in favour of people who are poor and vulnerable. - Values
We are committed to living out our core values through our staff and with our partners in relationships with all those with whom we interact. (In upholding our core values we have zero tolerance for all forms of exploitation and abuse, fraud, bribery and any other conduct which is incompatible with these values) - Impartiality & Targeting
We are committed to reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized, selected on the basis of need alone (this means that clear criteria are needed to identify those who are most vulnerable), regardless of their race, religion or nationality. - Accountability
We are committed to being fully accountable to project participants, communities, partners, supporters and donors for the work we undertake and for the resources entrusted to us - Sustainability
We are committed to empowering staff and partners and to seeing that the work that we support has a lasting impact, being built on local ownership and using local skills and resources. - Gender
We are committed to seeing transformation through restored relationships between men, women, boys and girls and ensuring equal value, participation and decision making by all. - Disaster Risk
We are committed to reducing the risk of disaster by strengthening our community resilience and reducing vulnerability to hazards. - Conflict
We are committed to promoting peace and reconciliation, supporting activities which impact positively upon situations of conflict and that safeguard staff and project participants.
International Standards
Cafdaro has recognized international operating standards because we protect our principles of respecting the people we work with and these standards have helped to shape our choice of Quality Standards:
The SPHERE Project – Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response
We are committed to the technical quality of our projects as laid out in the Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response and reflected in our Quality Standard focusing on Technical Quality. The Sphere Handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance, with the aim to improve the quality of assistance provided and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system in disaster response. Adoption of Sphere standards by organizations is based on a system of voluntary compliance.