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The PROCED journey comes to a celebratory end
22 February 2024
In December 2023, after five years in operation, the Development Program for Inclusive and Sustainable Model Cooperatives (PROCED) took its final bow, with closing ceremonies held in all three of the host countries for the program: Senegal, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
We are continuing to make history in Honduras
22 February 2024
The year closed off with a bang in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with the launch of the SABORES project!
Meet SOCODEVI’s new Chair of the Board!
22 February 2024
Céline Delhaes is a Director at Agropur, one of our member institutions—and as of December 2023, she is the new Chair of SOCODEVI’s own Board of Directors. We wanted to get to know Céline a bit better, so our team sat down with this inspiring woman to talk about the impressive path that led her to SOCODEVI. Enjoy!
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence yield a promising dialogue
22 February 2024
In December 2023, SOCODEVI launched a new awareness campaign in the western Côte d’Ivoire village of Krikoréa to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
Colombia’s cocoa power!
16 November 2023
In September, our Colombia team pulled off quite the feat, organizing the Festival del Cacao with the help of one of its financial partners! The Festival del Cacao brought together cocoa producers that SOCODEVI supports in the Putumayo region, one of four regions where the AGROEMPRENDE CACAO project operates in Colombia.
Continuing to support rural Bolivian families
16 November 2023
Set course for Bolivia, where SOCODEVI officially launched a tara development project in September called SAYARYI. Suzanne Mailhot, SOCODEVI’s chair and Promutuel Insurance representative, and Louis Marcotte, Ambassador of Canada to Bolivia and Peru, attended the project launch in person.
Snail production as supplementary livelihood
18 September 2023
In Ghana, during a start-up visit to the Ashanti region to present the TogetHER project and solicit support in the community and from cooperatives, the SOCODEVI team met some women from the Onuado group, a village savings and loan association, who had started a small local snail farm, a chance to earn a stable income all year round.
New initiative on Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan
11 September 2023
SOCODEVI officially launched PRODISOL, its new project in Guatemala. This initiative will focus on improving the living conditions of women and young people working in the tourism sector.
Together for the women of Ghana!
11 September 2023
The TohetHER project in Ghana is off and running! The launch event took place on March 29, in the presence of representatives of Global Affairs Canada and several players in the cocoa industry.
An international event for gender equality
11 September 2023
SOCODEVI was present at the 6th edition of Women Deliver, one of the world's leading conferences on gender equality, held in Kigali from July 17 to 20, 2023.
