Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Dignity
We stand for fair treatment of our staff and others; we check our work methods to ensure we do not bring harm to our beneficiaries and communities; we integrate conflict sensitive approaches while continually seeking to use indigenous and local knowledge. We are keen to ensure our staff and stakeholders espouse and follow international human…
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Integrity
We are keen to ensure transparency and accountability in everything that we do; we assure highest level of compliance to our stakeholder requirements; we are open and honest in our dealings with communities and take our beneficiaries as key partners in our work. We espouse modesty, trust, and uprightness in everything we do.
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Relevance
We always ensure that our work is relevant to the context in which we work; our work meets the needs of our constituency in ways that bring lasting change; we endeavor to ensure that our social actions are benchmarked against national, regional, and international standards; we regularly monitor what we do to ensure appropriateness.
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Equity
We endeavor to ensure equitable and fair treatment of women, men, boys, and girls regardless of their age, education level, gender, race, clan, religious affiliation, marginalization status; we believe all people should enjoy their inalienable human rights.
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Creativity
We proactively and deliberately use research to inform our community engagements; we will continuously seek innovative and noble solutions to old and new problems; we will be at the cutting edge of finding new ways and methods of bringing change.
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Core Values
The core values of CeRID are driven from its acronym and include creativity, equity, relevance, integrity, and dignity.
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Mission
To act as an agent of change for peaceful and self-reliant communities through implementation of its various programs on research and analysis, education and skills development, environment and natural resource management, livelihoods and economic empowerment, WASH, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and equity and women empowerment.
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Vision
A peaceful and self-reliant communities in the Horn of Africa region.
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Governance
The governance and management structure of CeRID is composed of two levels: The Board of Directors (BoD) level and Executive Management level. The Board of Trustee is the highest body of the organization that sets the strategic direction of the institution, the financial policies, the human resources and the administrative policies, rules, regulations as well…
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Our Achievements since 2010
From its inception, CeRID has been well positioned in research, implementing development and humanitarian programs and supporting community capacity building, peace and dialogue, and gender equity. Despite CeRID’s dominant food security, livelihoods, resilience and climate smart agriculture, education and skill training, and emergency response.
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