SF DEVELOPMENT POLICY: - OUR GLOBAL THEORY OF CHANGE

The purpose of this document is 1) to link the strategic priorities of SF to the overarching development principles and practices of the organisation, and 2) provide further linkages to underlying and more detailed policies and guidelines of SF. [...] Strategically, SF aligns its global priorities with the UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs), in particular SDGs 4, 5 and 8: To ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, and to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all. [...] SF’s economic inclusion strategy is anchored in SDG8 – the promotion of full and productive employment and decent work for all – and promotes improved livelihoods, income generation and job creation through providing youth with access to technical and vocational education and training; development of agricultural value chains; and the formation of and support to community savings groups. [...] Promote organisational learning and innovation Research SF affiliates with research institutions in our attempt to strengthen the result-focus of our interventions and stay abreast of the new trends in development cooperation in general, and in SF’s sectors of intervention in particular. [...] SF wishes to work with partners of varying capacities and abilities, which show willingness to both learn and develop, and to build the capacity of communities and other organisations.