Gorta Information

Gorta focuses on three key areas: Food security & Nutrition; Water & Sanitation; Enterprise Development. Our Vision Gorta’s vision is a world where there is no hunger or poverty and where rural communities have the means to create more prosperous futures for themselves and their children. Mission Through its work, Gorta aims at empowering communities to eradicate hunger and poverty, with particular emphasis on food security and nutrition, water security and unrestricted access to secure and environmentally sustainable livelihoods. Our mission is: •To promote best practices in the field of community area-based development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on scaling up agriculture, promoting watershed management, facilitating access to markets, and investing in enterprise development •To promote community social, economic and environmental development with emphasis on ‘the development of people’. •To generate, share and apply knowledge by promoting research-based solution to local problems. Specialties Food and Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, Enterprise Development