DBAs will collaborate on local project selection, implementation and monitoring. Focusing VSHP coordination at the district level ensures more participation to support better reproductive and child health for communities, minimizes duplication of services, and engenders consumer-driven programming and advocacy, and will lead to greater sustainability of both programs and partnerships. VSHP features a new type of grants program. All concerned parties must understand that this requires cooperation between various organizations, along with accountability. VSHP works to improve the policy and legal environment, to help achieve the objective of improved reproductive and child health among low-income Tanzanian families.
Partnerships require a degree of openness and transparency in order to function.
VSHP will explicitly pursue these values, through and among DBAs, and at all other levels of cooperation.