Our principles
 
The general goal of La Pierre Angulaire is to establish equity in terms of health care access, and to mobilize the rural communities for an appropriation of their health. The establishment of this NGO answers four fundamental principles.

1. Empowering rural areas to manage their health better:
That issue emphasizes the question of building capacity for communities including health workers, peer-educators, opinion leaders, NGOs and other community workers through appropriate training on the principles of rural development enabling an appropriation of health. La Pierre Angulaire is committed to assisting in identifying priorities as well as the elaboration, monitoring and evaluating micro projects to enable the communities to appropriate their health. Furthermore, La Pierre Angulaire will assure an immediate and steady follow-up of any interventions.

2. Establish social justice and solidarity based on development for the benefit of all communities:

In resource-limited countries, especially in rural and other underprivileged areas, the inaccessibility to relevant technical findings, including new therapies and good laboratory monitoring, community support, ethical and social approaches, is reported to be the highest gaps for health promotion. To help pick up these challenges, La Pierre Angulaire is committed to creating demonstration sites by integrating these promising practices to sustain and adapt the formal training suggested to the health care providers and communities. La Pierre Angulaire will work with communities to establish priorities for building social justice and solidarity based on development for the benefit of all communities.

3. Promote best practices and deal with local community assumptions

As a team with a common interest, La Pierre Angulaire first builds its motivation on the expertise of its members. Indeed, having taken part in work whose results made reinforcing the national response vis-à-vis the HIV/AIDS epidemic possible, the members of La Pierre Angulaire are committed to creating an exchange framework of national and international experts. The expected exchanges and debates should allow them to develop new prospectives and promote best practices to deal with local community assumptions.

4. Promote excellence:

La Pierre Angulaire is a partnership of individuals with extensive experience in various domains of excellence. For this reason, it is planing to create a technical stakeholder group and a national observatory whose mission is to count and promote national skills in order to encourage the development of innovative approaches, expand their programs in health fields, such as clinical, community, managerial, administrative, and research expertise. It is committed to developing national authorities and advocacy for efforts of young convincing researchers and ready to share their best experience.