SOCODEVI strengthens cooperative enterprises, mutuals and associative enterprises to help communities prosper.

We offer enterprises innovative solutions to sustain their market integration.

We strengthen the competencies of entrepreneurs and give our partners access to the expertise available within our network.

A NETWORK OF COOPERATIVES AND MUTUALS

THAT COOPERATE, ENRICH AND SHARE

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Areas of Intervention Agri-food

y Improvement of agricultural yields by selecting and utilizing the best adapted seed varieties

y Improvement of livestock raising techniques, herd management and reproduction as well as production of forage and feed for animal rearing

y Management of mills, grain elevators, food

product exports, HACCP application,

preparation of enterprises for certification and traceability of agricultural products

y Drip irrigation and rational water use

y Organization of systems for farm

input supplies

y Organization of systems to collect, preserve, process and market crops and livestock

y Rational and secure use of chemical inputs and other organic and non-organic materials, soil conservation

y Organization and management of processing plants and slaughterhouses

Sustainable forestry

y Design of forestry development plans using geomatics

y Training of forestry workers for land-use techniques, planting, pruning and harvesting

y Integration of women from the community into development of local enterprises

y Installation of processing equipment for timber, portable sawmills, workshops to manufacture products from wood byproducts, etc.

y Establishment of tree nurseries

y Creation and strengthening of forestry worker enterprises to ensure proper management of development plans, contracts for planting and harvesting, group-owned equipment, processing plants and workshops

y Integrated sustainable management of timber resources and other products in the forestry environment

Insurance and financial services

y Analysis of performance by existing services

y Calculation of reserve funds

y Development of financial products

y Development of marketing plans

y Actuarial studies

y Negotiations for reinsurance, policies and procedures for managing development funds for enterprises

y Procedures manuals for financial institutions

Local development, consumers and housing

y Drafting of construction specifications and contract management for builders

y Design of municipal development strategies

y Studies to identify promising sectors of economic activity in line with the environmental potential and limits

y Implementation of targeted support programs for local enterprises

y Introduction of procedures to manage local development funds, neighbourhood improvement, etc.

y Architectural designs for cooperative housing

y Capacity building of local authorities to manage sustainable local development

y Creation and strengthening of housing cooperatives

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Change Management SOCODEVI uses the innovative software package, PerformCoop, when

working with our partners in the South for consulting expertise, capacity

building and change management.

PerformCoop is also used by cooperatives and project managers

and offers a vast selection of training materials and business

management tools.

Diagnostic analysis for cooperatives and mutuals PerformCoop includes a self-diagnostic tool, an initial step in sharing our experience and expertise in managing cooperative enterprises and mutuals. This includes a toolkit overview, a performance report and a performance assessment report. We have incorporated environmental and gender concerns, two major components affecting the dimension of governance.

Priorities and objectives The diagnostic analysis for cooperatives and mutuals can highlight the sectors where improvements are possible and desirable involving dimensions such as member services, governance or economic activities.

Introducing changeOur approach allows for capacity building in cooperative enterprises leading to identification of change that is desirable followed by action to bring in the changes needed.

Performance dashboard report PerformCoop offers a performance dashboard report for cooperative enterprises. This provides monitoring of the main performance indicators used in the diagnostic study, the pace of progress towards achieving objectives and the priorities identified for implementing changes.

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Contact Us

850 Ernest-Gagnon Ave., suite 160 Québec (Québec) G1S 4S2 Canada

418 683-7225 www.socodevi.org

Major clients

y French Development Agency y Inter-American Development Bank y World Bank y Private enterprises (Antamina, Boréalis, Candente Copper, Cargill, Barry Callebault, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Kraft Foods, London Mining, Rio Tinto, Sulliden

and others)y Government of Guatemala – Ministry of the

Economyy Government of Haiti – Ministry of

Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Developmenty Government of Liberia – Ministry of Agriculturey Government of Mali – Ministry of Rural Developmenty Government of Nigeria – Federal

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

y Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

y Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec

y International NGOs and Foundations (Fair Trade, Jacobs Foundation, Solidaridad, Source Trust and others)

y European Uniony World Cocoa Foundation

(with financing from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

Institutional expertise and achievementsSOCODEVI is a network of 26 cooperative organizations and mutuals with 31,000 employees overall. Total revenue of the member institutions is $18 billion (Canadian).

We measure our success by the extent to which the enterprises we support become reference models in their communities due to their sustainability and the benefits their activities provide.

Our achievements since 1985:

y 450 projects carried out in 41 countries with a total value of CAN $220 million

y Approximately 700 organizations have been assisted

y Over 12 million individuals as direct or indirect beneficiaries

y Nearly 750 technical assistance missions have been conducted by our institution members

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