Our Approach

Cooperation as a sustainable lever for reducing poverty and inequality

Our Goal

Socodevi works at the intersection of economic development, the environment, and gender equality to concretely and sustainably improve the living conditions of communities around the world.

 

Our Approach

Stakeholders

We develop inclusive and synergistic partnerships between civil society organizations, governments, and the private sector for the benefit of often-marginalized communities.

Co-operative enterprise

We support the creation, development, and consolidation of inclusive, autonomous, profitable, and sustainable co-operative enterprises to structure innovative economic activities.

Family enterprise

We promote sustainable access to resources and tools while strengthening the power of women and men in decision-making structures to enable their economic autonomy and social inclusion.

Our Areas of Impact: A Globally Recognized Expertise

Agri-Food

Socodevi helps establish efficient, sustainable, and inclusive value chains that increase household incomes.

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Agroforestry

Socodevi promotes a sustainable approach to managing agricultural resources through agroforestry systems.

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Co-operative Development

Socodevi supports the improvement of living conditions in communities by supporting the creation and strengthening of sustainable and inclusive co-operative and mutual enterprises.

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Gender Equality

We are dedicated to integrating women into the formal economy by facilitating their access to and control over resources and profits.

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Environment and Climate Change

We act on practices, approaches, and the socio-economic context to improve natural resource management and ecosystem protection.

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Sustainable Forestry

Socodevi promotes an integrated approach to the sustainable and inclusive management of forest resources by and for neighboring communities.

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Agricultural Risk Management

Socodevi implements risk management solutions and strategies that facilitate families’ access—especially women’s—to land and quality inputs, agricultural credit, and insurance products.

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Social Housing

Socodevi contributes to improving people’s quality of life by developing organizational and technical solutions in co-operative settings, promoting initiatives for responsible urbanization, and structuring sound, community-based, and sustainable management of living environments.

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Food Security

At Socodevi, food security is integrated transversally into our expertise in gender equality, agricultural risk management, co-operative development, eco-responsible practices, and nature-based solutions.

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Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)

Socodevi promotes nature-based solutions (NBS) in forestry, agroforestry, agriculture, and beekeeping to address environmental challenges such as rapid biodiversity loss and climate disruptions.

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Our Monitoring and Support Tools

Socodevi provides its partners with a series of practical tools to support planning, monitoring, and impact measurement.

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The Co-Up platform is an online and offline tool that allows co-operatives or associations to manage their relationships with their members.

 

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JGO is a multilingual, multi-currency software for financial management and project risk management. Our goal is to improve the reliability and systematization of administrative and financial processes.

 

 

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The Socodevi Farmer Field Schools are an inclusive training program in agro-environmental practices and gender equality offered to families who are members of co-operative enterprises.

 

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The ImpactCoop web and Android platform enables the collection and storage of data related to Socodevi’s activities. 

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The PerformCoop Approach: an iterative change management process for co-operative and associative enterprises aimed at improving services offered to member families, strengthening inclusive governance, and enhancing strategic, financial, and environmental management. 

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Our Other Solutions

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Development and use of participatory diagnostic tools, consideration of vulnerabilities, and climate change adaptation.

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Prioritization of objectives and actions for environmental protection and climate change mitigation within co-operatives, in their business plans and strategic planning.

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Series of workshops to strengthen the skills and power of women entrepreneurs and develop a business network.

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Prioritization of objectives and implementation of concrete measures to ensure more equal participation within organizations.

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Socodevi’s strategic directions and institutional commitments.

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Quantitative tool for monitoring and evaluating the level of power of rural women.

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Socodevi’s strategic directions and institutional commitments.