PEP Africa is an organization that deeply values its volunteers and its teams on the ground.

We invest in our team’s success as an investment in our future and relationships. Consequently, we have built an organization that young people and youths want to work with—and work for—and this helps fuel our combined.

Stewardship Teamwork, Getting Results, Preparation, Engagement Accountability, Empowerment, Accessibility

The core values that guide PEP Africa can be found in our capstone doctrine, “We Are PEP Africa,” or it helps us understand our role in youth engagement and community improvement and directs our organization in our daily conduct.

Compassion:

• – We lead compassionately, supporting fellow volunteers, employees, partner organizations, young people and youths, and communities.
• – We are consistent in our commitment to fairness, accountability, and using good judgment in helping others.

Responsibility:

• – We ensure the efficient and responsible delivery of humanitarian aid with the means and resources entrusted to us.
• – To fulfill this responsibility, we commit to being accountable, transparent, and compliant toward beneficiaries, communities, donors, partners, and stakeholders as an organization and as individuals.
• – We ensure our actions do not harm people, their culture, dignity, or potential.

Impact

• – We are committed to having the most sustainable impact on the communities and people we engage with. All our actions aim to have an effect that improves the living conditions of the people, contributing to PEP Africa the dignity every human being is entitled to.
• – We ensure a fit-for-purpose response from the first mile, use all the best available options, and deliver the desired impacts directly to the beneficiaries and communities.

Enterprising spirit:

• – We are enterprising and work with a spirit that creates value and overcomes challenges.
• – Providing effective and timely humanitarian aid, which has an impact, also comes with being enterprising professionals, applying the highest standards, and choosing to be flexible, reactive, daring, forward-looking, proactive, creative, and innovative.
• – We are solution-oriented. We seek to understand the context and needs and design the best response plan, even under challenging circumstances.

Inspiration:

• – We strive to inspire all around us through our vision, values, approaches, choices, practices, actions, and advocacy.
• – We look for inspiration in our team, partners, and the world around us and seek to inspire those we interact with
• – We walk our talk and commit to motivating people, creating new possibilities, and bringing about sustainable change by investing in people’s potential.

Because we are the face of PEP Africa, our conduct—both on and off duty—matters. We show respect to all humans.