Core Values.
YEDA operates under indiscernible core values, which ensure quality work, professionalism
and successful implementation of its project activities.
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE.
We aim at making positive, sustainable change in the lives of the
people in need using innovative, inclusive, bottom-up approaches
aimed at empowering communities and individuals, and ensuring
project ownership.
INNOVAT ION.
We strive to implement innovative solutions to social problematics,
using creative and locally-based solutions to be implemented by
youth as actor of change within their community. We are agile and
adaptable, focused on the innovative approaches that bring about
long-term solutions and long-lasting change.
EMPOWERMENT.
We believe in the ethical obligation to work for the benefit of the
community and society at large, particularly towards empowering
youth by providing them key knowledge, skills and opportunities to
succeed and make a positive social impact.
ACCOUNTABILIT Y, T RANSPARENCY & INT EGRIT Y.
We are accountable to all stakeholders, including communities,
partners and donors, for decisions and use of resources received to
support communities in need. We employ the highest management
standards and working practices in order to ensure transparent use
of resources and provision of services. We ensure high standards of
work by not compromising our integrity, and operating under the
principles of non-discrimination, equity, and ‘do no harm’.
COMPETENCE, EXCELLENCE AND PROFESSIONALISM.
We ensure competence, excellence and professionalism by employing
qualified and committed staff members, and by continuously
investing in professional growth and capacity building.
PART NERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
We employ networking and advocacy strategies, information
sharing and strengthening coordination with other humanitarian
and development agencies to enhance our operations and our
effectiveness, efficiency and impact. We take stewardship seriously,
and we work to maximize the value of every contribution we receive
form individuals, partners and donors.
OUR RESOURCES
YEDA’s operations are led by a team of experienced staff with technical expertise in areas
of project management and resource mobilization, admin and finance, procurement and
logistics, capacity building, coordination, facilitation and M&E, CBI/economic recovery
and livelihoods, agriculture/fishery, and farm-related activities, as well as cross-cutting
issues such as gender, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), accountability
to the affected population, protection, disability.
Additionally, the long-term presence and strategic positioning of the YEDA field team
gives the NGO a deep understanding of needs and cultural dynamics, key to determine
opportunities and risks for the achievement of project goals. It also allowed its staff members
to establish trust with the local stakeholders and community in the area of operations, and
provides more access to areas of South Sudan previously unstable, thanks to the positive
long-term relationship with local authorities.