Gender Equality
Literacy as empowerment
13 March 2025
Literacy training for women farmers is an essential initiative for empowering them and improving their living conditions. Our Dou Touloma project, concerned with the socio-economic empowerment and well-being of women farmers in Mali, has set up a literacy initiative in the regions of Ségou, Dioila, Koulikoro and Sikasso that has reached nearly 2,300 producers.
Reinventing the future for paid care workers in Central America
17 October 2024
What’s TRASOL? In a nutshell, it’s SOCODEVI’s new innovative social justice initiative to make a real difference in Guatemala and Honduras. With financial backing from the Canadian government, our teams will spend the next several years working to improve the living conditions of 4,500 women and 1,250 young girls who are paid care workers in both countries.
Women’s cooperatives in Morocco: an inspiring exchange!
On August 26–28, 2024, the Resilient Women in the Middle Atlas (FERMA) project organized a series of highly rewarding exchanges among several women’s cooperatives in the Middle Atlas region. This event, led by SOCODEVI in partnership with Morocco’s national water and forestry agency (ANEF) and with financial backing from the Government of Canada, is one of our many efforts to empower women financially and help them sustainably manage natural resources.
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
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.
Generating resilience through collective actions!
6 June 2023
The resilience generated by collective actions and the cooperative model was at the heart of discussions at the event "Solidarity-based actions for the resilience of agri-food systems and smallholder farmers", held on May 31 at McGill University in the presence of the President of the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Alvaro Lario.
Women’s literacy: Another pathway to empowerment!
29 March 2023
Important guests delighted with the impact of our efforts in Côte d’Ivoire
9 January 2023
“Ihave seen firsthand the phenomenal impact of the project SOCODEVI has carried out with the cooperatives of Côte d’Ivoire, particularly FAHO. The impact is visible in terms of wealth creation, transparency, the promotion of gender equality, and the provision of quality services to the population, which are sorely lacking. Bravo to SOCODEVI and long live the co-ops.”
Co-ops in bloom in Mozambique!
SOCODEVI in Mozambique has accomplished quite a feat this year! Our efforts helped create two new multi-regional cooperatives and further the development of the Mozambican Association for the Promotion of Modern Cooperativism (AMPCM).
More rice available for the local market
11 November 2022
Women members of the Bolgatanga, Bawku and Navrongo Cooperative (BBN Cooperative) are looking for new markets within Ghana to sell their high quality parboilled rice.