Our Vision

1. To promote and support research on poverty alleviation based on a notion of poverty from the point of view of basic 'human' needs, including creative and social needs, and not merely the need to 'subsist'. 
2. To build and strengthen research capacity and initiatives of local researchers, voluntary organizations, and movements, including raising their awareness towards the 'human' needs of people. 
3. To develop a culture of knowledge-based approach to development and poverty alleviation built upon an interactive process of knowledge production, storage, diffusion, and utilization. 
4. To promote the development of concepts, tools, and methodologies to analyze and understand the structures and processes that sustain poverty and inequality. 
5. To support and generate researches which are more directly action-oriented as well as those which deal with issues of more conceptual nature. 
6. To promote research that is demand-driven and follows a bottom-up process rather than a top-down approach. 
7. To disseminate research findings and undertake appropriate follow-up action.