HIMSO has built strong institutional capacity through its unwavering commitment to community engagement, empowerment, and partnership. By fostering a sense of ownership among communities, HIMSO ensures that its interventions—and their positive outcomes—remain sustainable.

The organization strives to be a model of effective, efficient, and accountable programming, directly addressing critical health challenges such as maternal mortality and preventable suffering. The following are our core values:

Solidarity – HIMSO believes in binding individuals into a cohesive collectivity based on normative obligations. Bring together efforts to articulate and solve specific problems and needs of the communities we serve for betterment of health and prosperity. 

Social Justice – HIMSO believes that all individuals, groups, households and communities need and deserve equal rights, and equal opportunity for equal treatment in order to build an inclusive society. 

Commitment – HIMSO is committed to serve the community with professionalism and put those in need first. Motivated and positive about change and focused on the big picture. 

Accountability – HIMSO is responsible for its words, actions, results, and resources from our partners. Answerable for accomplishing its goal. Use constructive approach to improve the performance, participation and involvement, competency, creativity and innovation, and morale to bring changes and achievements. 

Transparency – HIMSO builds trust through responsible actions and honest relationships. Work in a way that creates openness. Share information and feedback freely and openly with each other. Combine transparency with agility, clarity, quality, brevity and flexibility. 

Partnership and collaboration – HIMSO work, collaborates and cooperates with public and private stakeholders from within and outside Tanzania for betterment of health and prosperity for Tanzanians.