Language and ways of working human, humane, and awake to the full spectrum of human experience – while, at the same time, addressing systemic and structural problems. The challenge is to hold both the personal and the structural, the intimate and the systemic, and not to collapse into either/or thinking or to impose simplistic solutions upon complex realities.

People’s identities and experiences. All of us are members of more than one kind of community, and can simultaneously experience oppression and privilege, access and exclusion, in different combinations, across different contexts, in different ways. 

To stay awake to its implications for both the process of our work, and for its outcomes. When we analyse a new territory or gather evidence we always aim to consider context (e.g. history, geography, ethnicity, language), identity (e.g. LGBTQI+, migrant), gender (e.g. cisgender woman, transgender man), age (e.g. adolescent, youth), and social status (e.g. working class, middle class) amongst other factors (e.g. ability and disability). Over time, this has led to a broadening of PV’s focus on rightsholder groups to include groups beyond the LGBTQI+ umbrella. It will continue to inform and help us to refine our programming across all the contexts in which we work.