Striving for deep and positive change for all ISAR’s new year’s strategy, is our response to all challenges.
It sets out a path as to how ISAR can fulfil it’s mission and deliver the most significant impact for those that we serve.
Inspired by Islamic faith and the teachings of the Qur’an, the strategy is guided by the Maqasid Framework.
The Arabic word ‘Maqasid’ means goal or purpose, and denotes an Islamic legal doctrine which emphasizes the sanctity of every individual’s life and dignity and their rights to security, health, a sustainable environment, food, shelter and clean water.
Following of consultation with the local partners, staff in our programme offices and supporters, we designed the strategy with a single goal:
- To serve the most disadvantaged families and communities Regardless of their faith, race, class, disability or gender.
- At its heart lies the principle that to affect systemic change, we must address the root causes of inequality and injustice.
- It is founded in our strengths, reach and experience.
- We implement and be responsive to evolving needs and external events.
- We will continue to embed monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning across our programmes.
- To ensure we identify any necessary changes in our approach or strategic priorities, we will conduct detailed, timely reviews of the strategy.
- To rise to the challenges that confront the world we all share, and deliver the changes that the poorest and most vulnerable urgently require, we must be innovative in our programming, bold in our advocacy and fearless in our commitment to those we serve. Our strategy sets out our path.
- To rise to the challenges that confront the world we all share, and deliver the changes that the poorest and most vulnerable urgently require, we must be innovative in our programming, bold in our advocacy and fearless in our commitment to those we serve.
- Our strategy sets out our path.
- In response to growing humanitarian needs across the globe, ISAR’s ambitious Global Strategy aligns life-saving and life-changing programming with the push for systemic change.
- Our goal has been to alleviate poverty and suffering for the most disadvantaged families and communities.
- We worked shoulder to shoulder with others also striving for a fairer, safer world for everyone.
ISAR is proud to have contributed to some extraordinary human development successes:
- More than a thousands people have been lifted out of poverty.
- Life expectancy has risen across the planet.
- Access to education has been greatly expanded, particularly for women and girls.
- Yet in recent years, humanitarian need has grown, rather than declined.
- “The impacts of the climate crisis have become more severe;
- Global governance is faltering as countries increasingly compete for resources and power.
- Inequality is rising due to the abuse and monopolization of resources and the exploitation of the many by the few.”
- These interconnected challenges further marginalize the poorest and most vulnerable and entrench the structural inequalities that exacerbate poverty and injustice.