Vision & Mission

New Horizon is ‘To shape & enable holistic, sustainable development with a focus on vulnerable and neglected communities and ecosystems.’

We work in those remote, difficult areas that lie in the rain-shadow of research and development attention, where the minimum requirements for supporting development do not exist, such as slums areas emerging from conflict. Through our work we take to these areas the technologies that facilitate endogenous & appropriate development, empower the indigenous communities for development action, and promote supportive policies at national level.

Vision is of indigenous communities and last-mile populations enjoying the benefits of development alongside those of their natural & cultural heritage, and a high level of ‘regional happiness’.

We recognize a people’s happiness to be a state of being that will follow from actions that assure a blend of values that are intrinsically ‘of the region’ and select external development inputs that are not at dissonance with the former. We would like to see our work contribute to making the communities of the regions we work in a happy people, economically and culturally satisfied, secure and in harmony with the natural environment, while also enjoying all the benefits of modern technologies and ways of life that they choose and having a position of respect in the country.