The commitment to the “Preferential Option for the Poor” inspired the founding fathers to establish the Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) on February 1988. And we understand poverty as “a condition where individuals, families and local communities are unable to meet their basic requirements for survival with dignity on a sustainable basis; and government is unable/fails to fulfil its obligations to the people”. As a human rights-focused organization, we work on empowering the people and strengthening their capacity to build a free, just and democratic society where there is respect for human rights and the promotion of sustainable development for the benefit of all.
In the pursuit of our mandate, we identify those individuals, organizations and institutions that we think alike and remain steadfast in our commitment to stand by the poor in their struggles to address the root causes of poverty and injustices. We aspire to continue to be the vanguard for social change by facilitating the mobilization and organization of social movements and enhancing their capacity to engage at all levels for socio-economic, cultural and political transformation using innovative approaches and promoting alternative value systems. In Sierra Leone, we are a founding member of several advocacy/campaign platforms including:
- Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (SLANGO),
- Civil Society Forum-Sierra Leone (CSF-SL),
- National Elections Watch (NEW)
- Budget Advocacy Network (BAN)
- Natural Resource Governance and Economic Justice Network (NaRGEJ)
- Sierra Leone Network on Rights to Food (SiLNoRF)
- Action for Large-Scale Land Acquisition Transparency (ALLAT)
- National Forum for Human Rights (NFHR).
Outside of Sierra Leone, NMJD is an active member of the following campaign platforms:
- Mano River Union Civil Society Natural Resource Rights and Corporate Accountability Platform (MRU CS Platform)
- African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES)
- International Alliance on Natural Resources in Africa (IANRA).
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network (ESCR-Net)
- African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA)
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