Since more than 40 years, COPE has been designing and implementing, in collaboration with local populations, development cooperation interventions in various African countries, in Latin America and from 2020 also in Asia, intervening in different sectors (health, disability, child protection, education, agriculture, women's empowerment).
Discover all the projects currently underway in Africa.
The project, funded by AICS, promotes sustainable economic growth in the districts of Namtumbo and Songea, aiming to ensure decent employment and fair remuneration for women, young people, and people with disabilities. The initiative brings together the expertise of a vast network of international and local partners to transform the region's potential into a modern […]
In Madagascar, 71% of the population is under the age of 25, but young people, especially girls and persons with disabilities, face severe inequalities in access to education, employment and civic participation. In the Diana and Analamanga regions, over 30% of women aged 15 to 49 are illiterate, with school dropout rates of up to […]
Within the AGREE project - Sustainable agriculture as a vehicle to promote food security, women's empowerment and socio-economic development, funded by AICSe with Vides Italia as the lead partner, COPE is included as a project partner together with COPE's local counterparts Mazzarello Women Promotion Centre (MWC) and Salesian Sisters of S. John Bosco in the […]
There is a strong link between poverty and disability in Madagascar. With 75% of the population below the poverty line ($1.9/day), Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world with significant consequences that highlight health deficiencies, malnutrition, diseases and environmental factors, which can increase the risk of developing disabilities, especially in childhood. If […]
The child protection programme in Madagascar started years ago with the construction of a Multifunctional Day Care Centre (Mangafaly), supporting families in the Antsiranana Province, Diana Region, in the city of Ambanja. The main activities carried out in the Mangafaly centre concern the dissemination and improvement of basic education and the reduction of school […]
In the Namtumbo district, Ruvuma region, southern Tanzania, there are approximately 6,791 square kilometers of arable land but only 5% of this is actually cultivated. The factors that affect the actual cultivation capacity of farmers are many: rainfall that is becoming increasingly scarce and increasingly limited to short periods; access to water resources is guaranteed […]
According to the latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, in the rural areas of the Ruvuma Region (Tanzania), access to water resources is limited to 48% of the inhabitants who, however, have access mainly to unprotected springs and surface water (rivers, dams and streams). Tanzania is one of the […]
Per una vita indipendente: organizzazione di un percorso di formazione professionale per l'inclusione lavorativa delle persone con disabilità in Tunisia, è un progetto di durata triennale, cofinanziato da AICS, avviato nel 2023 dall'ente capofila AIFO(Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau), insieme a diversi partner, tra i quali il COPE che in Tunisia dà seguito al suo impegno.
Sicur19 - Food and Health Security: resilience of local communities in the era of Covid-19, is a project financed with 8x1000 funds, which COPE has launched in two different districts of Tanzania, Mufindi and Nantumbo. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of global food systems. Unfortunately, Tanzania and its agri-food system […]
