Partnership for Religion and Development
Bringing together governments, multilaterals and faith-based organizations to consider more effective solutions/approaches to achieving the sustainable development goals. The Partnership on Religion and Development (PaRD) has more than 170 members including multilaterals, governments, academic institutions and faith-based organisations.
World Vision has engaged with PaRD since its founding in 2016. With PaRD, World Vision is able to build relationships, pursue effective solutions and drive productive policy discussions with FBOs, national governments and multilaterals on the essential role of strategic faith engagement in humanitarian and development work to achieve the SDGs.
In 2025, PaRD launched a flagship project Strengthening Faith-Based Partnerships for Sustainable Food Security and Community-Led Development that includes a commitment to the Global Alliance to End Hunger and Poverty, scaling up faith community led Nutrition Dialogues, and convening stakeholder groups at national level.
PaRD is also a collaborating partner on a joint Faith Action for Children on the Move commitment to the Global Refuge Forum on Faith-Sensitive Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, mapping solutions, encouraging joint stakeholder dialogues, building and sharing evidence to support the scale up of good practice.
World Vision actively engages across all of the PaRD workstreams—Gender (SDG5), WeCare (the environment), Peacebuilding (SDG-16) and Health (SDG3)—collaborating on scoping studies and sharing good practice in global fora, including Commission on the Status of Women, Women Deliver, High Level Political Forum, Geneva Peace Week, COPs and UNGA.
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