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A healthier, peaceful, educated, and just society where people live with dignity and freely exercise their basic human rights.

SSD addresses sustainable development through innovation, appropriate technology promotion, and capacity building. Rather than duplicating the mandates of other NGOs, SSD strives to carve a unique niche that advances sustainable development, especially in natural resource management, water, and the environment.

As a knowledge-based NGO, SSD promotes best management practices and appropriate technology while pursuing an integrated approach to sustainable development built on these principles:

• Participatory and human rights based approach to development.
• Strengthening grassroots organizations to deliver local services following the principle of subsidiarity.
• Behavior change communication that targets vulnerable practices for sustained development.
• Promotion of appropriate technologies to crystallize change in dormant communities.
• Engaging children as change agents through active learning, life skills education, and child-to-child communication.
• Developing models for participatory civil and environmental planning, design, management, and implementation.
• Building capacity of municipalities, local governments, and NGOs in environmental planning and design.
• Designing and implementing environmental impact assessments and participatory benefit monitoring systems.

SSD facilitates sustainable development so that the most vulnerable—women and children, people with disabilities and special needs, disaster-affected groups, internally displaced people, refugees, marginalized, and extremely poor communities—gain equitable access to basic services with dignity and without discrimination. SSD cultivates environments where everyone can freely exercise their fundamental human rights.