World Vision’s Regional Strategy sets clear and ambitious priorities to guide the organisation in its efforts to bring about ‘life in all its fullness’ for the children of the Asia Pacific.

The strategy aims to promote justice, and support social and human changes that last, as a demonstration of God’s love. It is based on our understanding of the causes of poverty endemic to the region and World Vision’s distinctive ability to take action in this context.

Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition

We will focus on contributing significantly to the improved health of mothers and the nutrition of children under five in partnered communities. Our aim is for communities and partners to have the capacity to improve the quality of life of children and women through access to quality maternal and child health and nutrition services and behaviour change practices.

We will:

• Promote the access for women of reproductive age to a full range of services
• Improve the health of vulnerable children under five, focusing on those 0-24 months
• Reduce mortality and morbidity caused by childhood infectious diseases
• Partner with government and public campaigns to promote quality policies and practices

Economic Development

We will develop and strengthen the technical capacities to deliver various economic development interventions, empowering people to increase incomes and have better food security, as well as focusing on community economic sustainability.

We will:

• Facilitate and link communities to access credit, markets, technology, and information
• Accelerate integration of economic development into other sectors
• Integrate livelihood and economic recovery into post-disaster response programmes

HIV and AIDS

We will strengthen our contribution to reducing the impact of the region’s HIV and AIDS epidemic, by building on World Vision’s global initiative to deliver quality HIV and AIDS programmes (Prevention, Education, Care and Advocacy) and by focusing on high risk groups, including children.

We will:

• Intensify HIV behavioural change programmes according to transmission patterns
• Develop effective monitoring of high-risk groups for HIV, including children
• Secure government protection, reduction, and treatment access policies
• Confront and mitigate HIV-related stigma and discrimination

Combat Human-Trafficking

We will develop, refine and implement our response to human trafficking in Asia and the Pacific. We will base our anti-trafficking response holistically around a package of activities, which include prevention, protection, prosecution and policy measures throughout the region.

We will:

• Support a safe, dignified and timely repatriation and reintegration of trafficked persons
• Pursue effective collaborations with national police forces and law enforcement agencies
• Increase capacity-based prevention and capacity to work across borders in a consolidated regional or sub-regional manner

Education

We will focus on contributing towards providing access to quality education for all boys and girls in partnered communities. Priority will be given to educating girls when we find they are disadvantaged in these communities. We will focus on groups (such as indigenous, migrant, and children with disabilities) who presently have limited access to quality education services.

We will:

• Focus on promoting value-based life skills and citizenship training for girls and boys
• Ensure access to and completion of quality early childhood school programmes
• Eliminate barriers to support children’s learning