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Founded 30 years ago, Gret is a professional oranization of solidarity and international cooperation. We are now present in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, to contribute to sustainable development, solidarity and fight against poverty and inequality.
Our activities
are to increase income for rural and urban people, reducing risks of loss, improving access conditions to infrastructure and high quality services, facilitating their voice to be heard.
In order to implement frequent and effective activities, with long term effects:
We gather experts who directly take part in activities (such as economists, socialists, engineers, agronomists, urban experts, ...) who are capable of applying technical knowledge and methodology verified into various social-economic and political contexts;
We give priority to selecting institutional techniques and models adapted to material and social situation of most of people and mobilizing local resources;
In partnership with local actors, we focus on trials and (technical, social, insitutional) renovations, strengthening local and national institutions (governmental and private insitution, associations) and especially local intermediary services.
To improve knowledge on chellenges and situation and draw lessons from reality, we carry out applied researches, result synthesis, elaborate and dissseminate many reference documents.
In the partnership, we both work and strengthen capacities of local actors in implementing activities, specifically :
Implement or support field projects, trial project or medium size projects having long term benefits to people – especially the poor – and contribute to designing substitution solutions, establishing relationships between government and people;
From practical experiences, elaborate technical and methodology documents on appropriate strategies, methods and techniques to disseminate to development actors in developed and developing countries;
Through reality and partnership, strengthen skills and capacities of actors as well as national organizations ;
Contribute to nation’s development and international cooperation policies, basing on practice and profound understanding of field status.
We aplly our skills on a basis of strong belief accumulated from practical experiences that government, market or "communities" can not create replacement solutions.
Creating long term development solutions, for as many people as posible, is to attempt to adapt them with institutions and regulations, different relationships among different population classess, service providers and government; to establish new organizations and services combined with coordination activities of market, government and society (at different levels and by different modes dependent on context).
Our incomes
are from projects we elaborate and negotiate for funds, from contracts we sign and service providing activities that governmental and private actors have given to us in the field of development cooperation.
Thus we are at the same time a profesisonal non-governmental organization, research unit, implementation team assigned to provide public services, elaboration and dissemination of knowledge and methodology, an intermediary between development and cooperation actors. These features, in our opinions, are strengths among current movements of redefining the concept of development and renewed ideas of State operations.
Our activities and services
Apart from partaking in projects that GRET elaborate and implement, GRET’s specialists also aplly their experiences and skills to provide for governmental and private actors in the field of development and cooperation.
By requests or invitations for bids, we participate as partner in fileds that we have advantages, in order to :
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implement projects on the field ;
on behalf of investor
- assess and support in terms of techniques or methods for projects and organizations
- assess, defining features, potentialities or evaluate projects
- implement applied researches
- contribute to defining and realizing development or cooperation policies and programs;
- elaborate and implement education activities, for different people (local organizations, administrative agencies, NGOs, technical assistants, ...), from developed to developing countries.
For more information on our services,
Our activities
are organized around 6 groups of topics and inter-topical activities :
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Sustainable food and agriculture,
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Development of institution, actors and territories,
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Information and communication for development,
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Micro finance and small enterprises,
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Public policies and international regulations.
In 2004, we have interventions in nearly 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. We work sustainably in 13 countries through our representatives in those countries.
Besides, Gret also provides profesional services, mobilizing knowledge of many experts and actors in the field of cooperation :
- set up and manage websites ;
- elaborate, design and publish document and leaflets ;
- graphics et maquette;
- French/English translation (all topics) and English/French (micro finance).
Formmore information on our services
(for translation of micro financial documents :
barlet@gret.org)
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