Core Values/Beliefs
- Honesty and Ethics: CARL is morally trustworthy and utilises finances and other resources judiciously and effectively. We maintain an open, accountable, responsive and responsible organisation.
- Professionalism and Comportment: CARL maintains the highest standards of integrity and excellence in our approach to our work. We emphasise discipline, competence, dependability, integrity, expertise, team spirit and tactfulness.
- Transparency and Accountability: In our work, we keep our doors open to all persons and our functionaries strive to serve as role models for other organisations and the community-at-large.
- Commitment, Dedication and Pursuit of Excellence: We are firmly committed to achieving CARL’s mission and vision. We value and support innovations and initiatives. We work smart and use resources effectively and efficiently.
- Responsiveness: We are pro-active and respond readily and with humility to all concerns.
- Teamwork: We work together as professionals to ensure that institutions are monitored and deliver outstanding services to the community.
- Respect for Human Rights, Diversity and Equality: We value different perspectives and promote fairness, objectivity and impartiality regardless of nationality, tribe, sex, religion and political persuasion. We are open-minded and we provide the best services we can to every person. We are courteous towards one another and all of those with whom we interact.
How are our values reflected in our work?
CARL works to protect and promote the rights of every individual in
Sierra Leone. As we work to reach these goals, we always keep in mind our core values and the need to implement them at all times. Some examples of how we apply these values in the realization of our goals are as follows:
Transparency and Accountability:
Monitoring aims to ensures that institutions of accountability become transparent and accountable to the people, which enhances the integrity of these institutions and bolsters the people’s confidence in them. This in turn is likely to help consolidate peace in Sierra Leone. CARL firmly believes in the importance of providing feedback regarding the activities of the institutions of accountability in order to enhance their capabilities and maximize the impact of their work on the people of Sierra Leone, especially those in the local communities.
Respect for Human Rights
CARL’s values are clearly evident in its work of protecting and promoting human rights and a flourishing civil society in Sierra Leone. Because of the severe lack of public confidence in Sierra Leonean institutions, the human rights violations that take place can be easily taken for granted and thereby unintentionally sanctioned. CARL firmly believes that greater public awareness will not only promote public discourse but will also engender reform in the various institutions of accountability to enhance the protection and promotion
of human rights.
Equality
CARL is dedicated to ensuring the equal treatment of all Sierra Leoneans, not just in its own offices, but also across the country. That is why we have worked hard to reform Sierra Leone’s gender laws, fighting tirelessly to implement the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It is also why we fight for a fair judicial system, one that provides equal justice for all, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, or ability to pay.
Pursuit of Excellence
CARL is future-oriented and ambitious, always looking at ways to grow and achieve new goals. We are always on the lookout for innovative ideas and creative strategies to improve the justice sector. Our past achievements have clearly embodied these values: over the past several years we have managed to expand our monitoring activities into the provinces and successfully lobby for gender reform, among other achievements. As always, we continue to set our sights high. We are currently campaigning against the death penalty and the criminalization of libel. We also continue to work hard to expand our monitoring activities and build up the capacity of civil society to advocate for an improved justice sector.
Last Updated on Monday, 14 September 2009 12:28
