Local ownership and responsibility is fundamental to our exit strategy.

The implementation of the ENCISS programme is guided by the following principles:

Local ownership: Engaging local expertise to the maximum extent possible, and funding project activities based on local relevance, resources and knowledge.

Participation and accountability: Promoting participatory and locally relevant activities, and ‘downward accountability’ – to grantees and communities.

Collaboration: Extending the impact of ENCISS by giving prominence to collaborative ways of working. By working together, there are greater opportunities to maximise leverage and synergy, and to contribute to increased sustainability.

Shared learning: Creating opportunities to share experience and replicable models among grantees, the donor community, government and media.

Effective communication: Reaching diverse audiences across Sierra Leone with creative, adaptable and locally relevant communications to help people to understand, engage and participate in ENCISS.

Impact and efficiency: Identifying and communicating the objectives and outcomes of the ENCISS programme, with a focus on assessing and demonstrating impact through the evidence of sustainable and transformational change in people’s lives.

Respect for rules and procedures: Following the rules and procedures outlined in the ENCISS operations manual and being transparent in all that we do.

Procurement and accountability: Christian Aid will ensure that any procurement carried out on the part of ENCISS is consistent with the relevant clauses of the service provider’s contract with DFID.

Cross-cutting issues: Integrating our key themes of gender equality, young people, security and justice and 2012 elections into grant selection, project monitoring, capacity building and learning strategies.