Building on the guidelines of Social developments and taking into account recent developments at national level and Open Forum’s experience from its various programs, Open Forum reaffirms its commitment towards integrating human rights in development cooperation. Open Forum will:

•	Integrate human rights in its multidimensional conception of poverty elimination. Discrimination and exclusion contribute to poverty, preventing marginalized groups from accessing rights, economic resources and opportunities, markets, and public services, and excluding them from power and decision-making.
•	Further human dignity of poor and marginalized groups. Combating economic, social and political exclusion of marginalized groups will draw on the human rights standards and principles set out in the international human rights framework.
•	Promote empowerment of the powerless and their active participation in the development process. Beneficiaries act as active citizens and responsible rights holders, realizing their rights without discrimination.
•	Strengthen accountability and capacity of state actors at all levels to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of individuals and groups set out in the human rights framework. This is particularly important when working with individuals and communities where political will and/or capacity are lacking.
•	Use binding human rights treaties and mechanisms voluntarily agreed upon as a legitimate common basis for action-oriented partnership and political dialogue at the bilateral and multilateral level.

Other objectives of Open Forum are as follows:

•	Establish IT infrastructure at District, Block & village level.
•	Create IT awareness amongst local population.
•	Provide email and web access.
•	Conduct computer based training programs.
•	Provide citizen centric services.
•	Provide access to socio-economic databases.
•	Provide customized community based services.
•	Use IT tools for sustainable regional development.