Our Vision & Mission

Vision

African Rural University offers a professional Discipline in Technologies for Rural
Transformation and enables students, Staff and supporters to have a shared vision and
purpose; ARU is an institution that has:
• Governance and Management systems that nurture and promote
participatory decision making, transformational education, training and endogenous knowledge development.
• Products which include community practice, publications, public lectures, library, Rural Transformation Specialists and research methodology based on the Visionary Approach.
• Professional Board of Trustees, Council, Staff and Promoters grounded in the principles of the creative process, disciplines of a learningnorganization and holistic development.
• A sustainable resource base and collaborates with public, private and academic institutions, Civil Society Organizations and the donor community that share similar philosophy of empowerment of rural people for self-reliance.

Mission

African Rural University provides transformational education to create effective change
agents and makers within an African development context.
ARU applies theoretical learning, innovative instruction, and field practice, so that ARU
Graduates can create conditions for rural people to improve their lives, transform their
communities, awaken inherent leadership and increase their capacity for
self- generating and sustainable change.