IAS is working together with a number of partners in different countries across the world. Our mission is 'to save lives, promote self-reliance and dignity and enable people to invest in their future, regardless of race, creed, gender or nationality of the recipient'.

IAS goal is to help people help themselves and believes that every human being should be respected for his/her dignity. No one wants to be a beggar, but certain reasons have forced people to beg for help. Several of these people are well educated and they also have a desire to help their people. We assist these motivated people with different kind of support so that they can be of help to suffering people.

Donors and people recieving help, have showed great trust in IAS work, partly due to IAS priority of using local and committed workers in all its projects. Each project is discussed thoroughly with the needed people, before it's being implemented. IAS believe it's important for the targeted people to be involved in the assessment, planning and implementation process in an early stage.

Emergency projects

For emergency projects, IAS will only use local partners that are well known to us.

Development projects

For development projects, IAS will implement the project with local partners, that are known to IAS and have a history of at least 1 year working with IAS. These organisations should also in some way be able to show a connection to IAS Head Offices (i.e. a church partnership, or another partnership) that IAS can refere to. The organisation must also have at least 50 - 100 members and be democratic in their organisational setup.

The partners must also have capacity to implement and work within the sector and area, that IAS prioritizes, that is Agriculture, Education, Health, Water, or organizing Civil Society. They must be able to report to IAS in the country, where they are based.

New partners

It is possibe to start with a new local partner, if there is a special situation like in Sudan, where the country has been at war, and nothing has been organized. The same applies to some parts of Somalia. IAS needs to get a clear profile of the organisation in order to know about its capacity and credibility.

You are welcome to apply for grants from IAS if you share our above mission statement. Please notice that before handing in a full proposal, first fill in the below Concept Paper and then IAS will give you feed-back on the proposed intervention before proceeding to next step.

All proposal formats are made in Microsoft Word format.

Proposal formats	File size	Download
Step 1 - Concept paper format	38 Kb	Download
Development - Application format	113 Kb	Download
Development - Progress report format	44 Kb	Download
Development - Final report format	47 Kb	Download
Humanitarian - Application format	42 Kb	Download
Humanitarian - Final report format	46 Kb	Download

Andreas Zetterlund International Liaison Officer andreas.zetterlundias.nu