Core Values of EHD

EHD believes in:

• Respect for individual strengths and diversity.
• Tolerance, equality and peace.
• Interfaith and intercultural harmony.
• Secular and democratic ideals.
• Being part of the solution not of the problem or a silent majority.
• Empowerment of its employees; and
• Development of marginalized and deprived communities.

Goals of EHD

EHD seeks to:

• Promote self motivated and collective initiatives, actions in communities ensuring secure sustainable livelihood, equity and pro-poor policies for all.
• Incorporate political space for the disadvantaged by promoting democratic practices and values.
• Develop an institutional infrastructure to infuse and promote sustainable participatory approach and shared vision at grassroots level.
• Easy and quick justice must be easy in access.
• Assurance of child rights without any discrimination especially in rural areas.

Thematic Areas of Intervention of EHD

Development philosophy of EHD is based on its core approach that community is the nucleus; which helps us design programmatic development agenda around the basic and strategic needs including fundamental rights of the people, especially who are unheard and disadvantaged. Following thematic focus areas are the bases of the organizational programs/initiatives.

• Human Rights
• Child Rights
• Democracy and Governance
• Speedy Justice
• Legal Protection
• Social Justice
• Poverty Alleviation
• Peace Interfaith and Intercultural Harmony 

Vision and Mission of EHD

Vision

Fostering a culture of human rights, justice, democratic values and peaceful gender based equality in the society. By giving the rights based space to youngsters and children.

Mission

EHD strives for the advancement of equality and respect for human dignity in Pakistan and around the world through human rights and rule of law implementation, awareness, educating and capacity building programs, mobilization of the communities through advocacy initiatives. Respect and sustainable development for all.

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE of EHD

In 2004 , a group of activists and lawyers with different social and political background with high qualification EHD (Encourage the Human Development) is a not-for-profit organization registered (in 2007) under Registration and control Ordinance Act 1961 with the expert and highly motivated and educated founder members, most of its members are senior advocates, high court judges and human rights activists  are on board. Board members are also the member of different networks; most important is DVC which is purely concerned with the bounded labour. EHD works for deprived communities on a value of respect for human rights with emphasis on the rule of law, advocacy, supporting grassroots, gender mainstreaming collective initiatives, human and institutional developments, work in disaster areas, empowering them to pursue their own development plans, in time availability of justice, negotiates law implementation with all tiers of governance and also demonstrates ways they can take independent initiatives to enhance their well-being.

It works for rural deprived communities on a value of sustainable development with a rights-based approach supporting local self initiatives, human and institutional development, and providing them with sustainable livelihood opportunities enabling them to define their own development agenda, negotiates its implementation with all tiers of governance and also demonstrates ways they can take independent initiatives to enhance their well-being.

Organizational programmatic framework seeks to strengthen social, political and economic asset base of the local community also empowering them to creatively interact with public and private institutions and influence them to formulate pro-poor policies and regulatory frameworks with an aim of achieving the goal of sustainable development.