Where Your Money Goes
ChildFund New Zealand takes our responsibility seriously to be effective and efficient using the money entrusted to us by New Zealanders like you.
It is our professional commitment to ensure the maximum amount of your donation goes overseas to development projects by employing trusted procedures, and been transparent. We are also passionately committed to making a difference to the people who benefit from your donation, ensuring that it is used correctly for maximum benefit and long term sustainability for the recipients.
ChildFund’s development approach is based on the belief that impoverished people must design and shape the programs that will be carried out in their communities and countries. Although, ChildFund believes that no universal strategy exists to address all causes of poverty, ChildFund incorporates five key principles into all programs in order to provide sustainable assistance to vulnerable children as well as their families and communities.
ChildFund bases all development programs on the following five key principles. All ChildFund programs:
- Are Grounded and Connected – Programs are grounded in an understanding of the causes of child poverty, which is gained through rigorous reflection with communities, as well as engagement with development processes at national and international levels. Programs are connected to and integrated with the efforts of other organizations and build on the existing strengths and resources in communities.
- Build Local Capacities – Programs seek to build a stronger, collaborative civil society which works to benefit children and families. Programs strengthen organizations and local capacities of poor children, youth, and adults to develop and manage their own development agendas. Programs are implemented through local bodies such as governments, NGOs, or Community Based Organizations (CBOs), thus enabling these groups to effectively implement solutions to the issues facing poor children and families.
- Achieve Long-Term Change – Programs are targeted at the highest potential avenues for poverty reduction, whether at the child, family, community, district, provincial, or national level. Programs move beyond addressing only the effects of poverty to identifying and taking action to combat the root causes. ChildFund enhances this impact wherever possible by partnering with other organizations, building the capacity of local people, and seizing opportunities to replicate program methods
- Show Impact – ChildFund empowers the children and communities with which it works to assess the impacts of programs according to their own criteria and aspirations. At the same time, ChildFund aligns its impact evaluations with those of other international organizations in order to demonstrate its contributions to addressing internationally-accepted child poverty reduction targets, including the Millennium Development Goals.
- Involve Young People as Equal Partners – ChildFund programs are designed to facilitate the development of children in holistic ways and contribute to their development as productive citizens and adults. Consequently, children and youth help shape the direction of programs. Their participation as leaders in their own development and in the development of their communities and societies is central to program implementation.
