A decade ago, we started planting the first seeds for our work. Now those seeds have sprouted roots and blossomed into trees: today, the Coalition for Human Rights in Development is an interconnected network of over a hundred groups in more than 50 countries across Africa, the Americas and Eurasia.
In our Manifesto – developed through a 18-month collective process, including the 2025 Members’ Gathering – we set the direction we want to take for 2026-2030, building on our strengths to respond to emerging opportunities and threats.
Our mission is to ensure that development is community-led and that it respects, protects, and fulfills human rights. To advance this, we will focus on four interconnected areas of work, that represent key opportunities to push for broader and system-level change, and key challenges we need to address if we want to strengthen and protect our ecosystem:
- community-led development;
- just energy and economic transformation;
- reprisals and civic space; and
- conflict and militarization.
The key values enshrined in our Manifesto are that we center love and care in how we work together, and that we are both member-led and community-led in our approach. With gratitude for what was done before us and humility for the work ahead, in our Manifesto we commit to a world where local communities – with Indigenous Peoples and women at the forefront – can shape their own futures.
Executive Summary
Our Theory of Change
Our Manifesto from 2026 to 2030