Empowering women. Supporting communities.
Supporting sustainable systems.
CECI is an international organization working towards sustainable and inclusive development.
With our partners, we support innovative solutions for shared and sustainable prosperity and wellbeing. Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Priorities
Women and Girls' Rights
CECI’s intersectional rights- and diversity-based approach supports equal rights for women and girls.
Women's Economic Empowerment
CECI empowers women economically through training, business development, the promotion of inclusive value chains, support for policy reform, and access to innovative and inclusive financial services.
Climate change adaptation
CECI promotes women’s leadership in adapting agriculture and food systems and protecting ecosystems to confront climate change.
Inclusive Governance
CECI supports inclusive governance efforts that value the roles of women and youth. It recognizes the connection between emergency humanitarian action, sustainable development, and peacebuilding.
Meaningful Results
65 years
of impact
8,000
local organizations that have collaborated with CECI
230,000
women mobilized in our projects in 2023
15,000
volunteers sustaining CECI’s efforts
35
countries involved since its beginnings
With a presence in over a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
The Strength of a Global Network
Americas
With a strong presence in Haiti since 1971 and in Latin America since the 1990s, CECI is working to economically develop women entrepreneurs, prevent gender-based violence, strengthen agrifood systems, and build social tourism. In Haiti, CECI focuses its efforts on governance, fair and inclusive local development, community adaptation to climate change, and the promotion of women's rights.
