Our Global Strategy

The Leprosy Mission is currently working towards a Global Strategy that runs from 2025-2030.

Our strategic goals

Following the review of our previous strategy, we have a renewed commitment to the triple-zero goals: zero transmission, zero disability and zero discrimination. All three of these areas are critical, and none can be achieved without the others. Therefore, we have aspirational goals for each area. By 2035 in the countries where we work:

1. Leprosy transmission will be interrupted
2. Persons affected by leprosy will have prompt and appropriate access to services to prevent and manage leprosy disabilities
3. Persons affected by leprosy will be included in society and will have equal access to their full rights and entitlements

To achieve these three aspirational goals, all of our Member Countries are committed to raising funds and have a responsibility to ensure that we will have sufficient and sustainable funding.

The breakthroughs that will allow us to achieve our goals:

To succeed in our mission to defeat leprosy and transform lives, our Members will work together on four significant breakthroughs, which will be collectively funded. Each breakthrough area will be supported through the work of a Task Force comprised of subject-matter experts from across The Leprosy Mission.

1. For Zero Transmission: Research, develop, and implement evidence-based tools to interrupt the transmission of leprosy, especially early diagnostic tests and post-exposure prophylaxis.
2. For Zero Disability: Research, develop, and implement appropriate treatment regimens to address leprosy-related complications, especially treating leprosy reactions.
3. For Zero Discrimination: Partner with, support and connect organisations of persons affected by leprosy to achieve greater inclusion and the reduction of discrimination.
4. Funding: Identify and invest in growth markets (existing and new), funding sources and fundraising innovation to help achieve the income target (£60m by 2030) and ensure that the TLM Global Fellowship breakthroughs are funded to completion.

The organisational strengths that will allow us to achieve our goals:

It will take many organisations and governments working together to defeat leprosy. There are four distinctive strengths The Leprosy Mission’s Global Fellowship brings to this calling:

1. Our Christian identity enables us to mobilise churches to fundraise and serve their local communities.
2. Our global scale, yet community presence, empowers us to collaborate with United Nations agencies, international networks, governments, locally led organisations, churches, and especially organisations of persons affected by leprosy.
3. Our medical and research expertise and infrastructure alongside our community presence enables us to develop, trial, and implement innovations in leprosy transmission, treatment and care.
4. Our leprosy focus and work alongside persons affected by leprosy enables us to work with local leaders and communities to find solutions to even the most entrenched challenges

Our ways of working

To maximise the likelihood of having a sustainable impact, the TLM Global Fellowship strives to always deliberately focus on four ways of working:

Collaboration and Partnership: Together with persons affected by leprosy, we mobilise stakeholders at local, national and global level to plan, implement, and review our operations to ensure ownership and sustainability. This includes integrating approaches in our operations, especially with the other NTDs and disability programmes.

Programmatic Innovation: We mobilise local knowledge by implementing new ideas that add impact to the work we do with our stakeholders.

Applied Research: We invest in research dissemination and ensure that field clinicians, health personnel, partners and communities will apply learning and research findings in our local programmes.

Advocacy: At local, national, and global level contributes to successful partnership, innovation, and research; it amplifies the voices of persons affected by leprosy; and supports the successful implementation of the TLM Global Fellowship’s four breakthrough areas by contributing to policy change.