Global positioning
Extreme poverty and exclusion are global issues that demand global cooperation. This is why Cordaid actively builds a multifaceted international network of relevant players. We do this not only as strategic financer of development processes, but also as a learning, knowledge-sharing and policy-influencing organisation. Backed by the trust of local communities we can connect the closed micro-worlds of armed conflict and life-threatening poverty in villages in Congo, Colombia, and Afghanistan to the macro-worlds of knowledge and power in New York, Washington, Brussels and Geneva.
In short, Cordaid builds and works in global communities of change: we share our agendas and responsibilities, our expertise and our resources, our influence and our strength, with true actors of change: activists, academics, aid workers and governments, business leaders and religious leaders, village leaders and women activists as well as international decision makers, refugees and untouchables, small producers and local farmers who cannot compete against monolithic internationals.
We have strategic alliances in the Netherlands. The support of the Dutch government, of our private donors, our volunteers and socially committed individuals, anchors us deeply in Dutch society. We give substance to the public debate on poverty, development and international cooperation, and actively lobby Dutch and international authorities.
As a Catholic development organisation, we serve on the boards of Caritas Internationalis and CIDSE. Alongside our worldwide partner network of 890 local development organisations, we partner with a large number of knowledge institutions, governmental agencies and companies, not only in the South but also in the United States and in Europe. Cordaid is on the boards of a number of leading organisations and institutions, such as the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, CONCORD (European NGO confederation for relief and development).
