Vision
“CCI, an Indian Civil Society organization is dedicated to enhancing social justice, human dignity and sustainable development for the people of India in general and marginalized people in particular irrespective of caste, gender and religion. “

Mission
“CCI’s mission is to improve upon the living condition of poor and marginalized people, and to act as a forum of advocacy, alliance building and coordination of Muslim NGOs engaged in community development and volunteerism.”

Values
Accountability, transparency, ethical practices; social justice, quality for all; creativity and innovation; professionalism and participatory decision making.

STRATEGIC PLANS FOR 2007-2010

Goal # 1:
Organize capacity building for NGOs

• Facilitate in the development of new vision, resources and services to empower Muslim NGOs on grassroot levels.
• Help NGOs increase their overall effectiveness, train them as change agents and assist them in acquiring core skills in organizational development, community linkages and networking.
• Assist them becoming credible and professional NGOs offering quality services.

Goal # 2
Holistic community development through entrepreneurship

• Encourage community building through micro financing, entrepreneurship, vocational training and healthy living conditions.
• Share successful and effective experiences and encourage replicability.
• Interface with successful systems & training of personnel
• Encourage NGO to think and act as social entrepreneurs.

Goal # 3
Undertake a needs assessment survey

• Undertake surveys to discover unmet community needs; untapped strengths and unfold organizational weaknesses of NGOs.
• Use survey findings as a framework for long term planning of required services.
• Make available survey reports and data to NGOs, scholars, government and social agencies and media.

Goal # 4
Encourage networks and partnership building

• Promote and facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration & partnership.
• Network with like minded NGOs, institutions, social activists and professionals
• Develop collective solutions and actions to common issues and challenges

Indian Muslim NGO Charter

WE, THE INDIAN MUSLIM NGOS

• Resolve to seize the momentum and leverage the unprecedented awareness, awakening and desire to take control of Muslim community’s destiny, created by Sachar Commission Report.
• Are committed to redress issues of social justice, socio-economic devastation, communal harmony, human rights, equal opportunities; state terrorism and police brutalities. Our first step will be to leave behind narrow mindedness, religious bigotry and built-in prejudices and intolerance.
• Affirm our intentions to make India the global economic leader and champion of democracy, human rights, religious-cultural pluralism. We would like to see that India achieve the highest economic growth and highest income per capita, while ensuring that no Indian is left behind in the search for a better quality life.
• Undertake to make our organizational vision as an Indian civil society organization dedicated to enhancing sustainable development through people aspirations and dreams; and turning dreams into realities through good leadership for the people of India in general and marginalized people in particular irrespective of cast, gender or religion.
• Make our mission to improve upon the living condition of poor and marginalized people. We cater to the people centered vision; provide them with opportunities to develop their fullest potential and encourage them to believe that they have potential to significantly improve their own lives. In this process our role will of a facilitator, a catalyst, a change agent and a partner-in-struggle; not a leader.
• Promise to make the community self sustaining and self ­reliant. As a result of this approach a new partnership between people will emerge which will be healthy, democratic, participatory and self-governing.
• Place greater emphasis on people initiatives and holistic approach to human development. Programs and services offered by us will be pro-active, rehabilitative, preventive and upgrading.
• Make an effective use of the capacity building process by being creative and imaginative, to dream and to be able to live for own collective aspirations, ambitions and dreams.  Will also focus on analytical awareness, understanding of various development paradigms and approaches, attitudinal changes, social activism and management skills.
• Undertake a significant public education and policy advocacy to create greater awareness related to the deteriorating conditions of marginalized people, minorities and Muslims.  We will bring through advocacy many issues to the attention of media, politicians and social activist. Our aim is to draw attention to gaps in the policy and discrepancies in government programmers and practices.
• Believe in practicing innovation, consensus and team work. An innovation will help us in understanding needs of people and technological progress; and in making necessary changes in our attitude, approaches, and operations of our affairs and delivery of our services. We will make consensus of the stakeholders as our basic principle of the participatory decision making, and community building.
• Promise to make transparency and accountability; creativity and innovation; moral- ethical and good practices; equal opportunities for both genders as our core values. We will conduct our affairs with highest standards of professionalism and integrity.
• Change pity, alms giving, handouts and band-aid to long term solutions; as charity and welfare create dependency and destroy motivation.
• Focus will be on transformation of people and community mobilization through building confidence, self esteem and social support networks to a better, fulfilling and progressive life for every body.
• Advance the community empowerment process through human dignity, social justice, equal growth opportunities, civil society building, participatory democracy and inclusiveness of the poorest of the poor.
• Declare that we will work with magnanimity, compassion and benevolence. We know that unselfishness and sacrifices are required in the delivery of quality services to people without any vested interest, nepotisms, reciprocal gains and personal benefits.
• Determined to empower ourselves through acquisition of knowledge, capacity building, collaborations, partnerships, networking and professional development.
• Call upon policy makers, government decision makers and law and order officials to take corrective and proactive measures to catalyze the immense Muslim potentials that is wasted due to communal biases, religious prejudices, stereo-typing and systematic exclusions and social boycotts practiced by the states and district officers.
• Demand that Sachar Commission recommendations along with Prime Minster’s 15 Point Program to be implemented immediately and necessary remedial steps be taken to ensure that programs develop will be followed through without bureaucratic interferences.