Canada
SOCODEVI takes part in World Cleanup Day for the first time
17 October 2024
For the 5th edition of World Cleanup Day and its first year as an International Day on the United Nations Calendar, SOCODEVI asked its teams to roll up their sleeves and get cleaning! The aim of this global initiative is to bring people together to clean up the waste polluting our environment.
A look back at our 39th Annual Conference
26 June 2024
United for intercooperation. These words were central to SOCODEVI’s 39th Annual Assembly, held on June 13 at Quebec City Cruise Terminal.
A cooperative world is a better world!
22 February 2024
To celebrate International Development Week (February 4–10), our team hit the road to visit several of our network’s member institutions.
Meet SOCODEVI’s new Chair of the Board!
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!
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.
Environment: our star teams!
2 June 2022
To reduce our environmental footprint, our teams work together and commit to improving their practices year after year. That's why, to celebrate World Environment Day, we want to highlight our champion teams. Discover our five country offices that stood out for their environmental management in 2021-2022.
Solidarity with the Ukrainian people
30 March 2022
SOCODEVI's team in Canada makes daily efforts to maintain contact with its partners and assist with humanitarian initiatives.
SOCODEVI: STILL CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2022!
17 March 2022
“SOCODEVI is proud to renew its carbon neutral certification for a second consecutive year. We continue to set ourselves apart and conduct our operations in alignment with our principles and values.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE MARCOUX, SOCODEVI CEO
Tree of Intercooperation: Solidarity for a Greener Future!
15 April 2021
The program was initially designed to uphold SOCODEVI’s environmental responsibility commitments and those of its member institutions (cooperatives and mutual organizations in Quebec). Since the project was launched in 2009, no fewer than 5,593.6 tons of CO2-eq have been offset by the planting of 207,756
New SOCODEVI Executive Director
17 December 2019
The board of directors of SOCODEVI is pleased to announce the nomination of Jean-Philippe Marcoux to the position of executive director for the organization. Mr. Marcoux has vast international experience with American and Canadian development organizations. Throughout his international journey, he has developed a strong