General goals :

♦   Provide training, technical, organisational and institutional assistance to local groups and institution, including public and  private sectors and civil society in developing countries;

♦   Work as facilitator in the partnership North/South and South/South ;

♦    Work as representative for governmental agencies, local and international Non Governmental Organisations;

♦    Work for projects identification, implementation monitoring and evaluation for governmental agencies, local and international Non Governmental Organisations;

Specific goals :

◊    Undertake evaluation, training, technical and organisational assistance mission for the capacity building for associations, cooperatives, NGO and other  public or civil institutions;

◊    Realize identification, preparation, supervision and evaluation missions of investment projects in agriculture and rural development, income and employment generator activities in fringe and urban areas ;

◊    Analyse population dynamics, poverty, livelihoods, income sources, levels and distribution, land tenure, access to infrastructure and services, rural institutions, gender roles and other relevant socio-economic factors to define project target groups;

◊    Design, undertake, supervise and disseminate socio-economic surveys and studies of rural and urbanizing livelihood systems within the context of the design, implementation and evaluation of investment programmes and projects and advise on related methodologies;

◊    Provide information to partner agencies on issues relating to rural livelihoods, community-driven development, community-based Natural Resource Management (NRM), poverty, gender, indigenous peoples, grassroots institution-building and people’s participation;

◊   Formulate investment projects aimed at overcoming specific constraints to development faced by target beneficiaries to ensure their participation in and benefit from project actions and their participation in project management;