Primary Health Care (PHC)
This sectoral priority includes public health teaching, training of village level health workers and an emphasis on preventive medicine. The sectoral linkages enabling CAUSE to address basic human needs through PHC projects include: potable water projects, latrine construction, immunization and nutritional counseling.

Water & Sanitation
Access to potable water should be viewed as a basic human right. Clean water is imperative for good health. However, without adequate sewage facilities the benefits of having potable water are almost completely negated. To this end, CAUSE is committed to assisting communities with both water and sewage development. These activities are seen as complementing CAUSE’s commitment to PHC.

In an effort to demonstrate the organization’s belief in the desirability of sustainable water development, CAUSE Canada supports reforestation projects to protect the water table in areas where potable water projects have been implemented. Reforestation initiatives have become a mandatory component of all CAUSE’s potable water projects.

Women’s Programs
One of CAUSE Canada’s stated Operational Principles is to specifically target poor or marginalized groups. Supporting women’s projects clearly assists the agency in honouring this objective. Invariably women are more vulnerable than men with respect to job security, voting rights, conjugal violence etc. Financing programs which help diminish women’s work loads as well as to increase their ability to make decisions about issues that affect the communities in which they live, is an important step towards empowerment.

Projects which emphasize the following development sectors represent priority activities for CAUSE Canada's work with women: micro-enterprise, health & nutritional counseling, literacy, and capacity building for community development work.

As a further complement to CAUSE Canada's priority on women's issues , CAUSE Canada is committed to making gender and justice questions a priority with respect to hiring practices.

Micro-Enterprise
Micro-enterprise activities are seen as being one of the best tools in the fight against poverty. CAUSE is committed to improving its knowledge of this important programming sector by supporting small scale initiatives targeted to assist men and women in the rural regions of the developing world.

Capacity Building
As a means of securing financial independence for our partners, and as a strategy for increasing both self-reliance and self-sufficiency within the developing world, CAUSE Canada has committed itself to supporting projects aimed as increasing the professional of Southern partner agencies. The development of strong Southern NGOs is viewed by CAUSE Canada as being an important step in meeting basic human needs in the developing world.