VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

People centeredness

LCD-U’s projects address widely shared basic community needs and concerns and the methodologies employed permit replication to wider audiences.

Self reliance

LCD-U strives to build institutional, organizational and financial capacity of client local government (district and sub county) personnel and beneficiary communities and individuals to ensure sustainability and continuity as an exit strategy.

Participation and team work

LCD-U strives to ensure that local governments and communities that work for and benefit from the assignments are involved in a deeper understanding of the problems to be addressed and in the development and management of the assignments.

Replication and Adaptability

LCD-U attempts to focus, plan and undertake its assignments with the twin factors of replication and adaptability in mind to ensure optimal flexibility for the client local governments (district and sub county ) and  the community in integrating the assignments’ results into the wider government system.

Action learning

LCD-U promotes basic principles of action learning and empowerment to both client organizations and their beneficiaries as a basic approach to organizational sustainability.

Accountability

LCD-U is convinced that it should be answerable to the beneficiaries and the donor community by giving a report about the performance/ progress of the projects and how resources are utilized.

Sensitivity