How we work

There are 3 strands to our peacebuilding work. Together they strengthen relationships between different parts of society. Communities become safer and more stable, and people prosper.

Partnership is fundamental to the way Cord operates. It is a key outworking of our organisational value of inter-dependence.

Our Theory of Change explains how and why we’ll achieve our vision, of a world where all people can live in peace and live life to the full.

Because of the complex contexts where Cord works, we’ve pioneered outcome harvesting as a monitoring and evaluation approach to compliment traditional methods. It identifies, describes, verifies and analyzes outcomes.

Cord’s peacebuilding approach is about more than the absence of conflict—it’s about building the relationships, systems, and structures that support justice, equality, and human dignity.