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ANNUAL REPORT

2014 2015YE

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SOCODEVI, thE SOCIété DE COOpératIOn pOur lE DéVElOppEmEnt IntErnatIOnal, IS a nEtwOrk Of COOpEratIVE EntErprISES anD mutualS that SharE thEIr tEChnICal ExpErtISE anD knOwlEDgE wIth partnErS In DEVElOpIng COuntrIES tO CrEatE, prOtECt anD DIStrIbutE wEalth.

For over 30 years, SOCODEVI has measured success by the ability of the enterprises receiving assistance to become reference models in their area due to the sustainability and impact of their activities.

Our ultimate objective is to:

ImprOVE lIVIng COnDItIOnS Of thE pOpulatIOnS wE aSSISt.

tablE Of COntEntSMessage from the president and from the executive director ..................... 2

2014-2015 board of directors .......................... 5

Our network at a glance ................................ 6

Our activities around the world ..................... 8

30 years of intercooperation for a better world ........................................ 10

The SOCODEVI team ................................. 12

Message from the SOCODEVI Foundation ..... 15

Our partners .............................................. 16

Annual report 2014-2015

SOCODEVI – 30 years of intercooperation for a better world

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mESSagE frOm thE prESIDEnt anD frOm thE ExECutIVE DIrECtOr

Ghislain Cloutier, President of SOCODEVI and Richard Lacasse, Executive Director of SOCODEVI

30 yEarS Of IntErCOOpEratIOn fOr a bEttEr wOrlD30 years of intercooperation. 30 years of development results benefiting cooperative partners in the South. And we are able to state – 30 years of building a better world. This concept as defined by the founders of SOCODEVI was worthily represented and they can be proud of the results.

How did the founders articulate that concept? The idea was to create a tool for intercooperation in order to share the experience, knowledge and expertise of Québec cooperatives with other cooperatives, mutuals and similar groups. This tool would contribute directly to the empowerment and improved economic, organizational and associative performance of our partners in the South and promote the development of cooperatives and mutuals around the world, thus making a significant improvement to living conditions in communities.

This intercooperation is also based on a voluntary commitment by the leaders, members and employees in the affiliated cooperatives and mutuals to share their expertise and provide quality technical assistance to partners in the South. Engagement is shown by welcoming delegations from other countries and by donations of equipment and materials to partners in the South.

SuCCESS StOrIES

SOCODEVI success stories include 400 projects and more than 700 partners that received assistance over the last three decades with great results. results were produced in terms of empowerment and autonomy, cooperative development and economic strengthening along with increased revenues in the populations assisted.

typical Examples:

In the dairy sector, a cooperative was created in Soc Trang province of Vietnam with an initial production volume of less than 500 litres a day. Ten years later, volumes are 25,000 litres a day, the cooperative is profitable, has impressive targets for growth, and has changed the lives of families in the region.

In Guatemala’s forestry sector, the introduction of plant production technology from Québec enabled our partner, FEDECOVERA, to produce nearly 2 million seedlings per year over the last 17 years.

In Latin America, our support is noteworthy for the insurance sector with mutuals and cooperatives now providing coverage for more than 3 million members with systems in place to manage capitalization norms.

In Bolivia, where agricultural diversification has led to the emergence of a new industry – spice production – that generates new revenues for agricultural families, jobs were created generating wealth for the country.

In West and Central Africa, our support for cocoa and coffee growers has led to greatly improved quality and an increase in the volume commercialized by the cooperatives.


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Other successes have been highlighted in a special brochure produced for our 30th anniversary.

The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), with its development component, formerly CIDA, has been a longstanding SOCODEVI partner during our years of expansion. The search for innovative, better solutions to overcome the problems experienced by populations in targeted countries and to meet development goals has always been the leitmotiv of our partnership with the Government of Canada.

Strategic planning in actionThe 2014-2015 year is inscribed within our 2014-2017 strategic plan. This year can be described in two words: growth and quality. Growth describes the size and number of our projects, including several that started up this year. And there are new countries of intervention, such as Colombia, where we are carrying out a major project for rural agricultural development. A new economic development project in the dairy sector in Ukraine is increasing the scope and consolidating the achievements of an initial phase. A new major project in Vietnam is intended to replicate the models of cooperative enterprises in the agricultural sector.

We have several projects in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia that have developed relationships based on partnership and joint financing for development action with Canadian, national and international private sector companies. We have also continued initiatives with AAI, the Alliance agricole internationale, for new projects in Haiti and the implementation of a major program in Mali.

Quality also describes our support interventions for management systems and tools to monitor and measure results achieved along with this growth. These tools measure the performance of our cooperative partners in our approach to assisting change management.

Over the last year, SOCODEVI has also regularly taken part in consultations and dialogue with DFATD on identifying the best approaches and solutions for inclusive economic growth, food security and the role of Canadian civil society as an actor for development, especially in the cooperative sector.

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Ghislain CloutierRichard Lacasse

Countries in troubleThis was a year of exceptional events that created additional challenges such as the Ebola virus crisis in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, political and security disturbances in Mali and armed conflict in Ukraine. In light of these circumstances, it is important to highlight the dedication and engagement of SOCODEVI employees in dealing with these situations and overcoming challenges affecting project execution in the field. To all these men and women, we offer a heartfelt thank you!

Sustainable development is in the very nature of SOCODEVI actions and therefore it is important to highlight a special initiative underway for several years – the Tree of Intercooperation. Compensating the carbon emissions from our operations and travel by planting trees in Guatemala, Peru and Saguenay is a tangible way to show our involvement in the fight against climate change. We thank the member institutions that participated in this program and we extend an invitation for all to take part.

We would like to thank all the members of the board of directors at SOCODEVI for their extraordinary collaboration in providing sound governance for the organization. In particular we salute the contribution of Gaétan Jodoin, the Agropur representative who is finishing his term of office this year. We also extend a welcome to Jean Filiatrault, as the new Agropur representative.

Intercooperation should be our focus for another 30 years! As Suzanne Mailhot, the Promutuel representative on the SOCODEVI board of directors mentioned during a support mission to Bolivia, “I would never have thought that the project could have such a strong impact on this community... I am committed to transferring all the potential of intercooperation to obtain results for these people and for future generations.”


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2014-2015 bOarD Of DIrECtOrS

Ghislain Cloutier, President Representative for La Coop fédérée

Jacques Desbiens, director Chair of the board of directors and President and CEO of UL Mutual

Jocelyne Rouleau, director Director General of the Confédération québécoise des coopératives d'habitation

Gaétan Jodoin, Vice President Director at AGROPUR

Richard Gagnon, director President and CEO of Humania Assurance

René Rouleau, director Chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer of La Capitale, Civil Service Mutual

Jocelyn Lessard, Secretary Director General of the Quebec Federation of Forestry Cooperatives

Suzanne L. Mailhot, director Director at Promutuel Insurance

Francis Viens, director Chair of the board of directors of the Fédération québécoise des coopératives en milieu scolaire

Pierre Genest, Treasurer Chairman of the Board, SSQ, Mutual Management Corporation

Réjean Laflamme, director President of the Fédération des coopératives funéraires du Québec

Clément Asselin, director President of the Fédération des coopératives d'alimentation du Québec

Cécile B. Pichette, director Vice Presidente of Citadelle, Maple Syrup Producers' Cooperative

a nEtwOrk Of COOpEratIVES anD mutualS that COOpEratE,

EnrICh anD SharE.Our nEtwOrk at a glanCEFigures dated March 31, 2015

COOpEratIVE enterprises and Mutuals

EmplOyEES

Million

mEmbErS in canada

bIllIOn

in revenue

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can $ 18.5


iNSTiTUTiONS SEcTORS Of AcTiviTY ASSETS ($) SALES ($) mEmbERS EmPLOYEESAgropur Dairy production and processing 3,223,566,000 4,662,270,000 3,445 8,000

Citadelle Processing and marketing of maple syrup, honey and cranberry products

72,460,513 93,201,459 1,877 307

Confédération québécoise des coopératives d’habitation Official representation, training and various services 1,500,000,000 250,000,000 30,000 100

Fédération québécoise des coopératives forestières Official representation, training and various services 115,000,000 258,000,000 3,900 2,900

Fédération des coopératives d’alimentation du Québec Official representation, training and various services 226,000,000 887,000,000 208,444 4,428

Fédération des coopératives funéraires du Québec Official representation, training and various services 200,000,000 46,000,000 185,000 700

Fédération québécoise des coopératives en milieu scolaire (COOPSCO)

Official representation, training and various services 39,000,000 134,000,000 400,000 1,500

Humania Assurance Inc Individual insurance 478,000,000 136,000,000 223,000 190

La Capitale Insurance and related financial services 5,500,000,000 2,200,000,000 250,964 2,560

La Coop fédérée Agricultural cooperatives and agrofood processing 1,700,000 5,400,000,000 100,000 10,000

UL Mutual Insurance and financial products 1,957,291,000 104,269,000 300,000 125

Promutuel Assurance Insurance and financial products 1,190,000,000 720,000,000 625,000 1,870

SSQ Financial Group Insurance and related financial services 10,622,300,000 2,777,200,000 1,290,473 2,052

auxIlIary mEmbErS• Conseil québécois de la coopération

et de la mutualité (CQCM)

• Consorzio Etimos

• Coopérative funéraire des Deux-Rives

• Fédération des coopératives de développement régional du Québec

• Groupe coopératif Dynaco

• Institut de recherche et d'éducation pour les coopératives et les mutuelles de l'Université de Sherbrooke (IRECUS)

• La Coop Agrilait

• La Coop Agrivert

• La Coop Comax

• Profid’Or cooperative

• La Coop Unicoop

• Mutuelle Assurance des Commerçants et Industriels de France (MACIF)

• Nutrinor

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Our aCtIVItIES arOunD thE wOrlD

Our prOjECtS DurIng thE 2014-2015 pErIOD:

1- bOlIVIa• access to sustainable and inclusive economic development opportunities in the mining

zones of the department of potosi (acceso)

• project to develop an agro-industrial value chain in the spice sector

• partnership program for cooperatives and mutuals (ppcM)

2- COlOmbIa• participation in the sustainable and inclusive economic development of the municipalities

of socha and socota (padesi)

• project to strengthen the competitiveness of associative enterprises (procoMpite)

3- IVOry COaSt• technical and entrepreneurial support for cocoa growers in the region of akoupé

4- guatEmala• rural economic development project in sololá (prosol) (in partnership with ceci)

5- guInEa• improved revenues for agricultural producers in touldé and petoun.

6- haItI• upgrading and capacity building to increase food security (aKossa) (université laval)

• project to strengthen public services for agricultural producers (resepag ii) (université laval)

• transfer of technologies to farmers in the north and northeast (ptta) (alliance agricole internationale)

7- hOnDuraS• improved living conditions in coffee-producing communities

• increased revenues for forestry cooperatives in honduras (coopForh)

8- lIbErIa• revitalization of the coffee-cocoa value chain

9- malI• project in Feere diyara – support for commercialization by grain and vegetable growers

(alliance agricole internationale)

• program for agricultural competitiveness and diversification (pcda) (alliance agricole internationale)

• project for the creation of a collective entrepreneur financial centre for youth

10- nIgErIa• improved living conditions for small-scale cocoa growers

11- paraguay• integration of small-scale producers into the dairy value chain

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12- pEru• contribution to sustainable and inclusive economic development in the province

of chota (codesic)

• Model for forestry development in the provinces of huari and Bolognesi

• project for the diversification and improvement of competitiveness of associative enterprises in mining zones (prodicoM)

• partnership program for cooperatives and mutuals (ppcM)

13- SEnEgal• support for the rice value chain for food security – BeY dunde

(alliance agricole internationale)

• capacity building of the housing cooperative movement

• capacity building of women's housing cooperatives and unions

14- ukraInE• improved competitiveness and support for entrepreneurship in the diary sector

• creation of cooperatives for storing and marketing grain (in partnership with the canadian cooperative association)

15- VIEtnam• partnership program for cooperatives and mutuals (ppcM)

• vietnam cooperative enterprise development project (vcedp)

30 yEarS Of IntErCOOpEratIOn fOr a bEttEr wOrlD

Our aChIEVEmEntS SInCE 1985

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In 40 COuntrIES

mISSIOnS For technical assistance carried out BY our MeMBer institutions

OrganIzatIOnS anD EntErprISES

around the world assisted

mIllIOn InDIVIDualS

BeneFited directlY and indirectlY

Launch of SOCODEVI 1985

SOCODEVI Institution Builders June 2010

From the left, seated: Léopold Marquis (deceased) (SSQ Mutuelle de gestion), President 1991-1993; André Lamothe, Founding President of SOCODEVI and of the SOCODEVI Foundation; Monique Vézina, Minister for External Relations and Minister responsible for CIDA in 1984; Normand Fontaine (Promutuel), President 1993-1995; Yves Demers (SSQ Mutuelle de gestion), President 2001-2006.

Top row from the left: Yvon Bilodeau, former Executive Director; Renault Marier, first Executive Director; René Arès (Citadelle) former board member; André Gauthier (Agropur), President 1995-2001; Réjean Lantagne, former Executive Director; Alain Leclerc (Fédération des coopératives funéraires du Québec) President 2006-2011; Jules Fugère (La Québécoise) former board member.


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SOCODEVI Canada

SOCODEVI Vietnam SOCODEVI Peru

SOCODEVI Colombia SOCODEVI Mali

SOCODEVI Bolivia

Our thankS gO Out tO Our partnErS arOunD thE wOrlD, Our fInanCIal partnErS, Our EmplOyEES anD ESpECIally Our nEtwOrk Of COOpEratIVES anD mutualS fOr thEIr DEDICatIOn!

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thE SOCODEVI tEam (may 2015)

CanaDa Matthieu Asselin, program officer and officer for private sector partnerships

Martin Beaurivage, program officer

Yvon Bilodeau, strategic advisor

Suzanne Bouchard, accounting analyst

Renée Brunelle, environmental advisor

Ginette Carré, program officer

Camil Côté, program officer

Valérie Fournier, accounting analyst

Richard Lacasse, executive director

Guy Lamontagne, business development director

Alicia Laso, secretary-receptionist

Caroline Leblanc, gender equality advisor

Virginie Levasseur, program officer

Jaime Lopez, accounting analyst

Sophie Martin, accounting technician

Michel Mathieu, program officer and commercial advisor

Véronique Meunier, advisor for cooperative enterprise management

Nicole Paquet, senior accounting analyst

Arthur Perin, program officer

Alain Plouffe, director, international program

Caroline Poussart, program officer

Katya Pro, secretary-receptionist

Pedro Rodriguez, communications, SOCODEVI and coordinator, SOCODEVI Foundation

Angélica Sanchez, accounting analyst

Luc Simard, director, administration, finance and human resources

Marie-Annick Taillon, advisor for training and cooperative organizational development

Richard Trudel, program officer

Manon Williamson, executive administrative assistant

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CanaDIan pErSOnnEl abrOaD anD natIOnal COOrDInatOrS

bOlIVIa Ruben Escamilla

Miguel Angel Peñaranda

Jorge Portugal

COlOmbIa Valérie Caron

Héctor Leyva

Sébastien Valdivieso

IVOry COaSt Jacques Langlois

hOnDuraS Michel Archambault

lIbErIa Mario Boivin

Francine Desjardins

malI Normand Jacob (AAI consortium)

Bakary Traoré

pEru Joëlle Bernard

Teonila Guerra

Marie-Pier Didone

Réjean Lantagne

Walter La Torre

ukraInE Maxym Maxymov

Ivan Pankiv

VIEtnam Maxime Prud’Homme

Vo Thi Kim Sa

The SOCODEVI team in Canada


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mESSagE frOm thE SOCODEVI fOunDatIOn

ESSEntIal lEVEragEby Gaétan Jodoin, President of the SOCODEVI Foundation

For nearly ten years, the SOCODEVI Foundation has appealed to the solidarity and generosity of its donors to contribute financially to fulfilling the SOCODEVI mission. Combined with the excellence of the work conducted by our teams in the field, this synergy leads to tangible results, a source of pride and hope for thousands of families around the world.

International development and cooperation is an area that has been experiencing major change for several years. Donors are requiring increasingly significant counterparties and contributions from non-governmental organizations such as SOCODEVI.

That is why every dollar collected by our Foundation is turned into essential leverage to continue and develop the support programs we are operating in so many different countries. Rest assured that your contribution today is as relevant as ever and truly makes a difference in improving the living conditions for the communities we support.

Over the 2014-2015, period, the SOCODEVI Foundation has allocated more than $100,000 to projects in Mali, Bolivia, Peru and Vietnam. We thank you a thousand times over for your generosity. Among the financing activities, we should note the excellent results from the 2014 golf tournament under the honorary presidency of Agropur. This was a superb activity of solidarity and intercooperation. We are convinced that the golf tournament to be held on August 27, 2015 under the honorary presidency of La Coop fédérée will also be a grand success.

“Our prOjECtS haVE a rEal ImpaCt On pOpulatIOnS anD pEOplE arE VEry apprECIatIVE. thE rESultS Of Our aCtIOnS arE ImpOrtant fOr thE pEOplE wE arE SuppOrtIng tODay anD fOr futurE gEnEratIOnS.”Suzanne Mailhot, a director at Promutuel Assurance and a board member at SOCODEVI and the SOCODEVI Foundation, during a mission to Bolivia in March 2015.

I could not conclude this message without thanking all the members of the board of directors of the SOCODEVI Foundation for their commitment. In particular I would also like to thank the dedication of Pierre Gauvreau, a vigilant secretary treasurer, who is not renewing his term of office and thank Marthe Lacroix and Jules Fugère, board members with us for many years. I would also like to thank the SOCODEVI team in Canada and in the field for the quality of the work carried out, the guarantee of success for our organization and the fundamental basis for achieving our objective: helping people rise out of poverty.

Gaétan Jodoin, President of the SOCODEVI Foundation

2014-2015 board of Directors, SOCODEVI foundation

• Gaétan Jodoin, Chair

• René Arès, Vice Chair

• Pierre Gauvreau, Secretary Treasurer

• Clément Asselin, director

• Guy Bouchard, director

• Ghislain Cloutier, director

• Suzanne Mailhot, director


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Our partnErS

fInanCIal partnErS• Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), Canada

• Enterprises in the private agricultural sector – cocoa, coffee, and mining

• French Development Agency (AFD)

• Government of Guatemala – Ministry of the Economy

• Government of Haiti – Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural development

• Government of Liberia – Ministry of Agriculture

• Government of Mali – Ministry of Rural Development

• Government of Nigeria Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

• International NGOs and foundations

• Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec

• World Bank (WB)

• World Cocoa Foundation

ImplEmEntIng partnErS• Alliance agricole internationale (AAI)

• Asociación Civil para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Forestal (ADEFOR – Peru)

• Canadian Cooperative Association (CCA)

• Centre for International Study and Cooperation (CECI)

• Ecotierra

• Groupement d’Ingénieurs Conseils pour le Développement (GID)

• HND consulting engineers

• Institut de recherche et d’éducation pour les coopératives et mutuelles de l’Université de Sherbrooke (IRECUS)

• Réseau International Éco-Développement (RIED)

• Société d’Études et d’Assistance pour le Développement (SETADE)

• Université Laval

• UPA Développement international (UPA DI)

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Our apprOaChFor more than 30 years, SOCODEVI and its network of member institutions have advocated the use of cooperatives and mutuals as effective tools to create, protect and distribute wealth in developing countries.

This model produces tangible results:

• Improved living conditions for populations

• Better distribution of wealth

• Hundreds of profitable associative enterprises that foster the empowerment of communities for their own development

• Thousands of women who participate equitably in decision making within organizations.

Our SErVICESThanks to the expertise of our member institutions and of our personnel in Canada and in the field, we have earned recognition in the following sectors:

• Set up and consolidation of cooperative enterprises, mutuals and associative enterprises

• Development of profitable economic activities for networks for cooperatives and mutuals in the South and for their members

• Capacity building based on development of competencies

• Consulting expertise for planning and management, production, commercialization and good governance

• Development and (or) consolidation of agricultural value chains

• PerformCoop – change management

• Management of participatory process

• Institutional support for governmental entities

• Transfer of knowledge and technologies.

Our SECtOrS Of aCtIVIty

SUSTAiNAbLE fORESTRY ANd AgRO-fORESTRY

AgRifOOd LOcAL EcONOmic dEvELOPmENT

fiNANciAL SERvicES ANd iNSURANcE

HOUSiNg ANd OTHER SEcTORS

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