Strategic Plan

Purpose

SEED is creating a future where everyone can thrive by protecting rights, strengthening systems, and empowering communities.

Vision & Mission

A future where everyone
can thrive.

To protect rights,
empower communities,
and strengthen systems.

Goals

Women taking part in a SEED gender equality session.

Achieve Gender Equality and End Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

SEED works to empower women and girls, uphold their rights, prevent violence against them, protect survivors and support their recovery, and engage men and boys.

Children supported by SEED child protection programming.

Protect Children and Promote Their Development

SEED works to promote children's growth and development by advancing and safeguarding their rights, protecting them from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect, and supporting survivors.

A hand-painted "Stop Trafficking" banner on the wall of a SEED shelter.

End Human Trafficking and Uphold Survivor Rights

SEED works to prevent and respond to human trafficking, protect and empower survivors and others at risk, uphold their rights, and strengthen response and prevention systems.

A SEED mental health and psychosocial support session.

Improve Mental Health and Well-Being

SEED works to strengthen the mental health and psychosocial well-being of individuals and communities, and support the development of institutional and social structures that enable human flourishing.

Objectives

  1. Strengthen

    Systems

    SEED works to achieve sustainable institutional change and social development through advocacy, technical assistance, and awareness-raising to strengthen rights and protections for all.

    Policy and Advocacy

  2. Increase

    Local Capacity

    SEED equips local actors to prevent and respond to violence by strengthening capacity through education, training, mentoring, and professional development.

    Education, Training, and Capacity Building

  3. Empower

    Communities

    SEED supports the development of a healthy, resilient, and cohesive society through community-based initiatives designed to foster social and emotional well-being, prevent violence and discrimination, and promote social and economic empowerment.

    Community Development

  4. Deliver

    Transformational Services

    SEED promotes the rights, protection, empowerment, and recovery of survivors of violence and others at risk through comprehensive care including case management, mental health and psychosocial support, legal services, cash assistance, and shelter services.

    Service Delivery

  5. Ensure

    Organizational Excellence

    SEED strives to build strong organizational and technical capacity through effective management and operational systems, empowering leadership, prioritizing accountability and learning, and fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment focused on achieving results.

    Management and Operations

Approaches

  1. Holistic SEED takes a comprehensive, whole-systems approach, leveraging interventions across society—individual, family, community, and institutional—at every stage, from prevention to recovery, to drive meaningful change.
  2. Accountable SEED is committed to acting with integrity, being accountable to those we serve and for everything we do. This involves consulting with communities, evaluating challenges and successes, and applying lessons learned to strengthen future programming.
  3. Impactful SEED pursues long-term, sustainable development that creates lasting change by tackling root causes, making strategic investments in systemic transformation, and applying evidence-based approaches.
  4. Locally Driven SEED invests in people, builds local capacity, and strengthens systems to support sustainable, locally-led development in line with local priorities and culture.
  5. Innovative SEED uses innovative approaches to tackle complex problems, synergizing global best practice and local expertise.
  6. Collaborative SEED fosters partnerships, alliances, and coalitions to unify, amplify, and advance shared goals, recognizing that lasting change requires collective action, local leadership, and cross-sector collaboration.
  7. People-centered SEED takes a survivor-centered, trauma-informed, and rights-based approach; prioritizes well-being, dignity, and empowerment; works with women, men, and children; and focuses on the most vulnerable, including marginalized, displaced, and conflict-affected communities.

Values

  1. Integrity We are committed to doing the right thing and being accountable for all that we do.
  2. Equality We believe in respect, fairness, justice, and equal rights and opportunities for all.
  3. Impact We are committed to delivering high quality results and achieving sustainable change.
  4. Collaboration We believe in teamwork and know that by working together, we can achieve more.
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