ON THE GROUND

We are developing activities to expand irrigated agriculture and to promote agro-industries in order to diversify and increase the incomes of agricultural producers.

We are also participating in the implementation of measures to facilitate access to credit and create markets for non-traditional agricultural products. Finally, in the wake of Senegal’s agricultural reforms, we support the strengthening of peasant organizations to make them more independent and to enable them to better represent the interests of their members.

PROFILE OF A PARTNER IN SENEGAL

The Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy (INPSSE)
contributes to enhancing the cohesion of social and solidarity economy practices and to increasing the capacities for action of the sector’s different actors.

INPSSE’s initiators were and are organizations that play leading roles in their respective national networks, such as El Grupo Red de Economia Solidaria del Peru, le Groupe d’économie solidaire du Québec and le Groupe sénégalais d’économie sociale et solidaire. The latter is organizing INPSSE’s 3rd Meeting, which will be held in Dakar, Senegal, in November 2005. The Network is composed of over 60 groups and networks active in different areas of the social and solidarity economy.

MOST MEMBERS ARE FROM THE AMERICAS, AFRICA AND EUROPE.

• The other partners in Senegal
• Association des Unions Maraîchères des Niayes
• Association Nationale des Maisons Familiales Rurales
• Cadre national de concertation et de coopération des ruraux (CNCR)
• Cadres locaux de concertation des OP