Our Approach
SCOPE's currently works under the six integrated themes to address the lifecycle needs of the communities to secure their well-being and help them progress steadily. SCOPE realizes that while economic growth tends to be the foremost goal of the marginalised, a steady behavioral change in the community can only be achieved by working with them on all parameters of their occupation and life from health to education to social security.
SCOPE and its supporters are united in building the strength of communities through a focus on these thematic areas: organizing and advocacy, capacity building, livelihood promotion and protection, social security and health, and skills development. Each of these thematic areas rests on ensuring dignity and respect in the communities as well as pushing societal boundaries towards gender equality in all spheres of life.
1. Inclusive Health
SCOPE’s Inclusive Health Initiatives work to improve the access to quality healthcare services for the poor and marginalised communities. By identifying the root causes of healthcare challenges, we work at the individual, community, and systemic levels to develop innovative solutions and help implement quality healthcare services. The ambit of our work includes improving of maternal and reproductive health, child health and nutrition, and early identification and treatment of communicable diseases.Our Community Mental Health work recognises the central role of mental health in wellbeing and quality of life. We work to empower communities and systems to promote good mental health, to recognise and address mental health needs, and to challenge the exclusion of people with psychosocial disabilities.
2. Inclusive Livelihood
SCOPE’s Inclusive Livelihood Initiatives works with the women, men and persons with disabilities engaged in smallholder agriculture, small businesses or employed as farm or non-farm labour. Implementing a range of innovative initiatives, we help women, men and persons with disabilities build secure and resilient livelihoods and climb out of poverty permanently. The key approaches adopted in livelihood sector initiatives include capability enhancement, asset building, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, collectivisation, inclusive value chain development and engagement of men and other influential actors. Our inclusive livelihood work ensuring that men and women with and without disabilities with low or no income have equal access to mainstream economic activities to sustain their livelihood through fair pay and decent work.
3. Inclusive Education
SCOPE’s Inclusive Education Initiative has been working for 25 years to ensure quality elementary education for children, especially girls and those from marginalized communities, to help them become the leaders and changemakers of the future. We see education as an imperative tool for girls to realize their maximum potential by gaining crucial skills and dispositions that set them on the path of social and economic empowerment.Our programmes and projects work through building learning ecosystems that are inclusive, gender conscious, and safe for all. Our work promoting equitable, quality, lifelong inclusive education provision for all with a community-based approach and a specific focus on girls, boys, women, and men with disabilities living in low income settings.Our education initiatives work in accordance with the Right to Education Act (2009) and National Education Policy 2020.
4. Humanitarian Action
SCOPE’s Humanitarian Action initiative works to provide rapid and effective relief measures to the communities impacted by natural calamities. Our strategy encompasses Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Rehabilitation with an approach of ‘Building Back Better and Safer’. We use post disaster recovery programming to increase the resilience of buildings and communities to future hazards. ECOPE engages in inclusive humanitarian response at operational and local advocacy levels. Supporting community and local partners and organisations of people with disabilities to prepare and respond to emergencies is SCOPE’s unique contribution in the field of humanitarian action. SCOPE’s emergency work also includes working with mainstream humanitarian organisations to promote and implement inclusive relief and recovery operations.
5. Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID)
Our CBID work pursues transformative change in the lives of people with disabilities and their families who live in poverty and face exclusion; at home, in school, at work, and in the community. Our community programme networks link people with disabilities to services and opportunities while facilitating mutual support and self-representation. In partnership with Organisation of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) to hold government to account regarding their commitment towards implementation of CRPD and RPD Act 2016. All our programmes are underpinned by the Disability Inclusive Development 9 DID) approach which ensure that SCOPE is accountable to OPDs and the communities in all of our programmes initiatives.
6. Gender Justice and Women Empowerment
Every day, women are confronted by discrimination and inequality. They face violence, abuse and unequal treatment at home, at work and in their wider communities and are denied opportunities to learn, to earn and to lead. They have less resources, less power, and less influence compared to men, and can experience further inequality because of their class, ethnicity, age and disability, as well as religious and other fundamentalism. So gender inequality is a key driver of poverty and a fundamental denial of women’s rights. SCOPE understands gender justice as the full equality and equity between women and men in all spheres of life, resulting in women jointly and on an equal basis with men, defining and shaping the policies, structures and decisions that affect their lives and society as a whole. SCOPE believe that women taking control and taking collective action are the most important drivers of sustained improvements in women’s rights and are a powerful force to end poverty not only for women or girls bot for other too.
7. Water and Sanitation
Water is one of the core interventions of SCOPE’s work. Our initiatives, our campaigns and our long-term initiatives to help families improve their income and reduce social exclusion and access to their rights and entitlements. Our work means ensuring equitable access to water in both quantity and quality, which prevent disease and sustains lives and livelihoods, reducing environmental health risks by managing sanitation safely and with dignity and involving women and men in managing water and sanitation resources and safe hygiene practices to maximize the benefits of their communities.
For SCOPE, tackling the root causes of poverty often means addressing these water-related injustices. We’re implementing long-term projects with sustainable solutions to provide safe water and sanitation and to address water insecurity through fairer and more efficient management and distribution of water resources.