On July 5 and 6, Cota delivered a two-day assessment training course for Acodev members. This training was organized around three axes : Preparation of the terms of reference ; Follow-up of the progress of an evaluation ; The use of the results. These two days resulted in the production of a “Practical guide on external evaluation”, which identifies all the points of attention and questions that frame a “good evaluation process”. Check it out here (in French) ! Guide pratique sur l’évaluation externe COTA-ACODEV

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The board game from our study on the legitimacy of civil society organizations is now available. Discover it in video and contact us for an animation within your organization !

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On Friday, April 21st, Cota organized a workshop about the territorial approach in development projects, based on a study realized at the end of 2016. About fifteen actors met in order to exchange around key questioning on the topic and to illustrate them by their own experiences. Assuming the fact that a territory is firstly an actors’ network, Cota saw emerging concrete questionings from its study, which were illustrated by the testimonies of the participating organizations. How to “re – territorialize” in Belgium for a…

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This project cofinanced by the Abbé Pierre Foundation, with the support of the French Agency of Development, is developed in Antananarivo and consists of three independent axes : The first one aims at improving the living conditions of the populations made casual by the bottom of the city, by constructing houses or implementing small repairs. For that purpose, families have to save or contract a micro-credit. They are also accompanied in the regularization of their administrative situations and the basic regularization of the grounds they…

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The annual AGM of Be-cause health, a network of actors mobilized on international public health issues, was held on Thursday, March 16th. On this occasion, we officially became a member of the platform; Although COTA is not specialized in the field of health, Be-cause health members felt that our methodological contribution was important in the context of multidisciplinary exchanges. This membership is the logical continuation of a process of convergence between the COTA and the platform, which began with the co-organization in 2015 (with BTC, Acodev…

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