Our Values

Our core values for sustainable environmental management:

  1. The needs of the poor and most vulnerable communities are a priority.
  2. Community involvement creates community ownership.
  3. Communicate, collaborate and co-ordinate with as many stakeholder groups as possible.
  4. Create and support strategic institutional partnerships.
  5. Healthy ecosystems contribute positively to community and environmental resilience.
  6. Community resilience relies on livelihood security.
  7. Knowledge sharing is essential for capacity building

ProAct Network has signed the IFRC Code of Conduct and incorporates these principles into our work.
 
Our Objectives

Research, projects and partnerships should:

  • address the needs of the poor and most vulnerable communities through active participation and involvement in planning and managing activities; and
  • incorporate climate change solutions and environmental management into both large-scale programming and local actions, both proactively through disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and reactively through rehabilitation.
 
Our Policies

ProAct has issued a series of institutional policy papers that set out our position on key issues relevant to our work. Each is intended to provide succinct statements of our main concerns relating to that topic, detail the underlying principles we believe in and set out the main areas of our work.

ProAct's position papers aim to provide a common starting point for members and partners of the Network as we seek to draw in other expertise and build firm links with other like-minded partners.
 
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Climate change and disaster management communities have long operated in isolation from each other. ProAct believes that greater co-operation would increase overall effectiveness in reducing people's vulnerability to rising risks. This policy paper seeks to encourage synergies between these two areas. In addition ProAct encourages ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Environmental management is a critical and cost-efficient – yet underused – alternative approach which has multiple benefits for vulnerable communities.


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Human Displacement, Climate Change and Environmental Change

Environmental migration is not officially recognised. Cases of people being forced to move on account of climatic change are, however, being recorded while a growing number of areas are being identified as “vulnerable” and “at risk”. ProAct believes that a multifaceted approach needs to be urgently developed to both accommodate and mitigate future flows and reduce the impacts of human displacement on the environment, as well as societies.

Humanitarian and environmental organisations will increasingly be affected by environment-related human displacement. ProAct encourages these two sectors to co-operate in order to find solutions that integrate livelihood resilience and sustainable resource management in policies, and support practical, tangible projects on the ground.


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