Kinvia

Vision

Kinvia envisions a world in which children, youth, and their communities thrive, fully realizing their potential.

Mission

Kinvia accompanies children, youth, and their communities as they work to overcome systemic barriers to their rights to nutritious and culturally appropriate food, fostering holistic well-being.

Approach

Kinvia collaborates with local partners to build capacity within communities, enabling them to achieve long-term, sustainable change. The organization follows best practices in development, grounded in a formal Theory of Change that incorporates monitoring, evaluation, and the integration of gender and climate considerations as cross-cutting themes.

Impact

Kinvia operates from the core belief that food and nourishment are fundamental human rights. The organization works alongside communities to develop local, self-reliant, and sustainable systems that provide food for children, youth, and families across generations.

Kinvia engages with communities to influence all aspects of nourishment throughout life stages, addressing income generation, education, gender equality, racial justice, and climate impacts. Central to its approach are people: the organization strengthens local capacity through partnerships, knowledge sharing, resource mobilization, and the fostering of innovative solutions.

Working with community change-makers, Kinvia actively questions and seeks to transform systems to improve the lives of children, youth, and families. The organization learns from and grows with communities, shifting power dynamics and deepening its commitment to understanding local realities and supporting community healing. This approach enables communities to reclaim leadership and decision-making, while Indigenous Peoples reclaim self-determination.

Kinvia is embarking on a path to further deepen its community-led approach and actions toward decolonization, inviting others to join in this journey.

Values

Kinvia’s values guide organizational governance, decision-making, and actions, forming the foundation of its culture, behaviors, and core beliefs:

• Accountability – Demonstrates commitment to trust through responsible actions, meaningful impact, transparency, and reciprocal accountability.
• Partnership – Nurtures collaborative relationships and engages communities in shaping decisions that affect their lives.
• Inclusiveness – Creates safe spaces where diverse perspectives and experiences inform and direct change.
• Solidarity – Supports and accompanies those affected by systems of oppression and marginalization.
• Respect – Values the dignity of people and upholds human rights.
• Humility – Commits to continuous healing, growth, and learning, fostering spaces to listen and learn from others.