NORTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

 

 

 

 

Created in Luxembourg in 2011, North-South Cooperation is an NGO specialised in education and training.

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We are convinced that education is the key to empowerment and emancipation and that it is a determining factor in ending misery.

 

Our projects in the South are based in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our beneficiaries are the poorest of the poor. We partner with local community-based organisations well representative of the beneficiaries.

 

We contribute to the local economies: by supporting local cooperatives; by offering mentorship services to local small entrepreneurs.

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We also work on projects in Luxembourg: to help refugees develop and exploit their personal skills; to make the public aware of the co-operation issues, with its challenges and possible solutions.

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We are committed to make all our interventions sustainable and to empower our partners: our projects must develop our partners’ capacity for self-supporting activities. Therefore, we will not support activities that create dependence on external interventions.

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Our aim is to 'hand over the stick'. We are against top-down approaches in development: we work with partners, who aim to employ all our technical, financial, human help to develop their own capacity.

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We believe in participatory development. We support people’s organizations and communities, and we work with them in a participative way. The development we believe in is people-centered: people’s needs come first. We work to empower the most disadvantaged and the poorest of the poor.​

 

In 2015, we have received the Agrément by the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs as NGO partner of the Luxembourg co-operation.

 

In 2016, we have become member of the Cercle de la Coopération.

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With our projects, we contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.