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.
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 […]
Starting in 2019, COPE has extended the intervention activities carried out in the town of Ambanja to the health sector, previously carried out in the form of medical advice for children attending the Mangafaly Centre. With this project, however, a leap in quality is made, thanks to the funding of the Fondazione Cactus onlus, since […]
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 […]
We Care is a project funded by AICS and implemented in Tanzania by different partners: the leader is the NGO L’Africa Chiama; the Italian partners are COPE and IBO Italia; the Tanzanian partners are Shivyawata Tanzania Federation of Disabled People's Organisations and Nyololo Hospital. The project, lasting three years, has the general objective of contributing […]
