We aim to:

• Work towards the elimination of violence against women and children through frontline services, lobbying, advocacy and research

• Create a strong women’s rights sector in order to enhance women’s voices and agency through strong sector building, networking and sector integrated programming

• Mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS through strategic development of research and education on the intersection between HIV/AIDS and violence against women.

• Influence and engage in policy development and change to ensure women’s rights are enshrined and/or mainstreamed into institutional mechanisms.

• Enhance women’s agency through the process of psychological and legal support

• Ensure an environment that is gender sensitive through engagement of socio-economic and socio-political issues as impacting factors on the vulnerability to violence of women and children

• Provide effective and sustainable interventions through good governance and accountable processes.