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Against Deep Poverty:

A Rights-Based and Multidimensional Approach

Open Space Association understands deep poverty as a multidimensional condition in which access to a life of dignity is severely restricted and fundamental rights are violated. Within this framework, the Association conducts fieldwork, research, and advocacy to bring the less visible dimensions of poverty to light, emphasize poverty as a human rights issue, and develop rights-based solutions. Its work supports people’s empowerment and resilience, with a focus on social justice, gender equality, human rights, and children’s rights, and aims to strengthen their ability to break the cycle of poverty. By combining solidarity-based models with long-term social policy approaches, Open Space Association addresses deep poverty through a rights-based and multidimensional approach.

Against Deep Poverty:

A Rights-Based and Multidimensional Approach

COMMUNITY

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PROGRAMS

Open Space Association carries out its work through four main programs.

Monitoring, Advocacy and Campaigns Program

The program brings poverty and related human rights violations into public debate, presses decision-makers to act, and advocates for the implementation of rights-based policies. Its advocacy work draws on poverty research, field observations, and briefing notes.

Local Governments Program

The program works with local governments to strengthen rights-based social policies for combating poverty. Drawing on research and field data, it shares knowledge and experience with local governments and develops policy recommendations to make social support mechanisms more accessible, inclusive, and rights-based.

Support and Social Solidarity Program

The program supports people experiencing poverty in meeting their basic needs through social solidarity and contributes to their empowerment. It organizes workshops and awareness-raising activities on access to psychological support, health care, legal services, and public services.

Institutional Capacity, Visibility and Resource Development Program

The program carries out institutional development work to strengthen the Association’s long-term sustainability. It implements transparency and accountability processes and develops strategies to strengthen the Association’s organizational capacity.

Our Principles

Rights-Based Approach

Deep poverty is fundamentally an issue of inequality and human rights. For this reason, the Deep Poverty Network emphasizes [...]

Solidarity

The Deep Poverty Network believes in the power of solidarity. We aim to build bridges between supporters and people experiencing deep poverty [...]

Sustainability

“Deep poverty” is a condition in which long-term income poverty, barriers to exercising fundamental rights and meeting basic needs, [...]

Emergency Response

Poverty violates the fundamental rights to life and development by preventing access to adequate food, safe drinking water, basic hygiene and safety, [...]

Protection of Human Dignity

We act on the principle that people’s rights, freedoms, and dignity must be protected both when social support is delivered and [...]

Participation

The Deep Poverty Network argues that combating poverty requires sustainable policy change at both local and central government levels, taking into account the multidimensional [...]

Open Space

The Deep Poverty Network is made up of volunteers, supporters, staff members, and people experiencing poverty. Ideas and contributions from all these groups [...]

Transparency and Accountability

The Deep Poverty Network aims to be transparent and accountable in both its activities and its use of funds.