Our Purpose
Global Harmony Foundation (GHF) is dedicated to Humanitarian Assistance, Development, and Peacebuilding through a Triple Nexus approach, ensuring an integrated response that maximizes impact.
By linking emergency relief, sustainable development, and conflict resolution, we work to create long-term, community-driven solutions that foster resilience, social cohesion, and sustainable peace. Our efforts prioritize marginalized communities, survivors of conflict, and at-risk groups, ensuring inclusive recovery and stability in post-conflict settings.
Our integrated approach allows us to address immediate humanitarian needs while simultaneously building foundations for lasting peace and sustainable development.
We work to strengthen peace, stability, and sustainable development by addressing urgent humanitarian needs, fostering conflict resolution, and promoting human rights and social cohesion. Through an integrated Triple Nexus framework, we ensure that relief efforts, economic recovery, and peacebuilding initiatives complement one another, maximizing their long-term impact. We prioritize the empowerment of vulnerable groups, including women, youth, minorities, and survivors of conflict, to build a society that is inclusive, resilient, and capable of overcoming crises while advancing the Eight Pillars of Positive Peace.
A resilient, peaceful, and inclusive society where justice, human dignity, and sustainable development thrive. Through the Triple Nexus approach, we aim to integrate humanitarian assistance, development, and peacebuilding to maximize impact, promote Positive Peace, and create lasting stability. Our vision is a world where communities, especially marginalized groups, minorities, and conflict-affected populations, can rebuild, recover, and shape a just and equitable future.
Our Values
Our organizational values guide every aspect of our work and inform our approach to humanitarian assistance, development, and peacebuilding. These core principles shape how we interact with communities, partners, and each other.
Human Dignity
We believe in respecting human dignity in all our interventions, ensuring that marginalized groups, minorities, and victims and survivors are given special attention and care, especially in the face of adversity.
Justice
We are committed to providing services in a fair and inclusive manner, ensuring that the most marginalized, including minorities and victims and survivors of violence, have access to justice, opportunities, and redress for their suffering.
Solidarity
We strive to build solidarity and unity among members of society, including marginalized groups, minorities, and survivors, to foster a society that supports healing, reconciliation, and shared progress.
Transparency
We uphold transparency in all our activities and hold ourselves accountable, ensuring that marginalized and minority groups are not excluded and that their voices are heard and respected.
Empowerment
We empower individuals and communities, especially those from marginalized backgrounds and survivors, to regain control over their lives and to build resilience through tailored empowerment programs.
Sustainable Peace
We focus on addressing the root causes of conflict and the systemic exclusion of marginalized and minority groups to ensure lasting peace for all, including those who have suffered the most during the conflict.
Effective Response
We prioritize meeting urgent humanitarian needs with high efficiency, particularly for marginalized groups, minorities, and survivors, ensuring that no one is left behind in the recovery process.
Perseverance
We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, continuously learning from adversity and adapting to new realities. We remain steadfast in our commitment to serving communities, even in the most demanding circumstances.
We focus on addressing the root causes of conflict and the systemic exclusion of marginalized and minority groups to ensure lasting peace for all, including those who have suffered the most during the conflict.
Core Program Areas
Our programs are designed to address critical needs in post-conflict settings while building foundations for sustainable peace and development. We focus on integrated interventions that strengthen community resilience, promote social cohesion, and support inclusive recovery.
Local Economic Development, and Post-Conflict Recovery Support
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Support small-scale businesses, vocational training, and job creation for vulnerable groups, including displaced persons, women, and youth.
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Strengthen market linkages and facilitate access to microfinance services to enable economic self-sufficiency.
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Promote agricultural recovery, infrastructure rehabilitation, and climate-resilient solutions tailored to community needs.
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Provide recovery support programs, including cash assistance, business grants, and financial literacy training, to help communities rebuild sustainable livelihoods.
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Well-Functioning Government
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Sound Business Environment
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Equitable Distribution of Resources
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Acceptance of the Rights of Others
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Good Relations with Neighbors
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Free Flow of Information
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High Levels of Human Capital
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Low Levels of Corruption
Priorities for Post-Conflict Settings (e.g., Syria):
Raise awareness of transitional justice principles, emphasizing truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence.
Strengthen inclusive governance and institutional capacity, ensuring that national and local structures are transparent, accountable, and accessible to all citizens.
Combat disinformation that fuels division, radicalization, and violence by promoting fact-based reporting, digital literacy, and independent media.
Provide mental health and psychosocial support services, particularly for survivors of violence, displaced persons, and those affected by the conflict.
Promote accountability, transparency, and anti-corruption initiatives within governance structures and recovery efforts.
Support sustainable economic opportunities by promoting job creation, vocational training, and entrepreneurship tailored to post-conflict recovery.
Ensure women’s meaningful participation in peacebuilding, economic recovery, and governance, while addressing gender-based violence and systemic discrimination.
Provide education, vocational training, and peacebuilding opportunities to prevent youth recruitment into armed groups and radicalization.
Organizational Structure and Governance
Board of Directors/Advisors: The Board of Directors will consist of individuals with a strong background in human rights, peacebuilding, international development, and organizational management. Board members will be selected based on their expertise, integrity, and commitment to the mission of the organization. They will provide strategic oversight, ensuring alignment with the organization’s values, objectives, and ethical standards. The Board will meet quarterly to review program outcomes, financials, and organizational performance. Directors will be responsible for approving major decisions, including the organizational budget, strategic plans, and key partnerships.
Management Team:
- Executive Director: Responsible for the overall leadership of the organization, ensuring operational efficiency, effective program implementation, and compliance with donor regulations.
- Program Managers: Lead specific program areas such as Peacebuilding, Human Rights Advocacy, and Livelihoods. They are responsible for program design, implementation, and monitoring.
- Finance Officer: Manages the financial operations, including budgeting, accounting, and ensuring financial sustainability. The Finance Officer ensures
Governance Model: Decision-making processes will be based on a collaborative model, where the management team proposes strategies, and the Board reviews and approves these decisions. Voting rights will be extended to the Board members, with key decisions requiring a majority vote. Strategic direction will be determined annually through a strategic planning process that incorporates input from stakeholders, including the Board, staff, and community members.
