We see youth as agents of change in the communities where we work, and as the stewards of the future of the country. As such, we will develop a stronger focus to work with youth by engaging them as key stakeholders in all project activities. Youth peer initiatives will be developed, and PNKS will collaborate with other youth-based partner organisation. 

We will empower community members by developing their capacity to become change agents. As such, individual as well as organizational capacity development will be an important approach for us. We will achieve this by trainings, workshops, peer learning, mentoring and coaching as well as exchange visits.

We will apply a rights-based approach focussing on the relationship between duty bearers and rights holders in democratic development. We will achieve this through awareness raising on rights (economic, social, and environmental) and capacity development for both duty bearers and rights holders in rights and responsibilities.

We believe in the power of cooperative inquiry; as such we will involve community members and staff in research to investigate the causes of and solution for poverty. We will achieve this by community-based, participatory research to understand the problems community members are facing, and to help them reflect on lessons learned and identify ways forwards.

We will support community members to engage with government representatives as well as development actors to improve their access to basic services, livelihoods, and natural resources. We will achieve this through forums to address critical development problems. We will focus on helping local community members to advocate with duty bearers and bring about change in a non-violent way.

We will use a grassroots approach to mobilizing local communities, building solidarity, and supporting them to work with duty bearers to improve their quality of life. We will do so in an independent neutral fashion designed to promote the best interests of the community while working through local structures such as our boundary partners.

We will promote multi-stakeholder dialogue among local authorities, community members, relevant government, officials, and private sector representatives in the areas relating to economic, social, and environmental rights. Multi-stakeholder dialogue will focus on building trust and confidence, identifying problmes and possible outcomes, and finding win-win solitions for all parties.