NOW MORE THAN EVER

Women and Children Need Our Support

With your help, we can continue our work to prevent hunger, violence, and human trafficking around the world. Your gift contributes to lasting change.

Donate today.
Governance

Dalits and Cobblers Engage Leaders

We worked with communities in Bangladesh to address their concerns directly with officials, policy makers, and political candidates.
Governance

Niger Community Protects Vital Resources

With Counterpart's support, the community is combatting an environmentally harmful practice.
Food Systems

School Feeding Transforms Senegal

Procuring local food not only improves the lives of children, but sustains the wider community as well.
Governance

Supporting Armenian Civil Society

How are robust civil society sectors formed? Our team in Armenia say these five key elements are needed so that civil society can drive positive change.
Focus Areas

Standing alongside our partners for positive, lasting change

For 60 years and in more than 65 countries around the world, Counterpart has partnered with leaders, organizations, and networks to build inclusive, sustainable communities in which people thrive.

Our Stories

Bringing together experts and activists

We’re touching lives in communities around the world. Read our stories to find out how.

The Women Who Make School Feeding Possible

The Women Who Make School Feeding Possible

School meals programs ensure that children get nutritious meals that give them the energy and incentive to stay in school and secure a primary education. Since 2022, Counterpart’s Our Bright Future  program—implemented with CESC,...
Reflecting on Counterpart’s History Supporting Democracy, Human Rights, and Good Governance

Reflecting on Counterpart’s History Supporting Democracy, Human Rights, and Good Governance

In celebration of Human Rights Day, Counterpart’s senior director of governance, Kourtney Pompi, reflects on Counterpart’s 60-year commitment to supporting locally-driven programs that champion democracy, human rights, and good governance...
Making Gains for Better Public Transparency, Integrity in El Salvador

Making Gains for Better Public Transparency, Integrity in El Salvador

Corruption undermines the foundation of societies, eroding trust in institutions, depriving communities of critical public resources, and hindering economic growth. It discourages foreign investment, stifles innovation, and creates an uneven...
Investing in Afghanistan and Global Women’s Leadership

Investing in Afghanistan and Global Women’s Leadership

Adiba Juya works with Counterpart’s women’s leadership team as part of the Aghaaz Fellowship program, which supports Afghan women evacuees in the U.S. through strategic partnerships. In this opinion piece,...
Our Impact

Alongside our partners we achieve outstanding results

40K

farmers improved their technical skills through our Food for Progress training in Guatemala

3M

textbooks in French and Arabic written and distributed in Mauritania

150K

children fed through our USDA programs in Africa each school day

5

governance councils established in Dominican Republic and Haiti to preserve biodiversity

Partnering with Counterpart

Standing alongside our counterparts for lasting change

We partner with leaders, organizations, and networks striving for more open government, resilient food systems, natural resource protection, and improved livelihoods.

“Counterpart... has provided us a greenhouse for tomato production, and now the quality and the quantity of tomatoes have improved and enabled us to sell our produce at a much better price.”
Marcos Ordóñez Andrés
CADER Promoter, Guatemala
“I would never have thought that hyenas and dogs would find themselves [feasting] on the same corpse without experiencing any arguments... But here we are today in discussion with those we feared without complacency and without fear of reprisal.”
Youth representative
Niger
“We appreciate Counterpart because you are working in silence with impactful results.”
Mohamed Melainine Ould Eyih
Former Minister of Education, Mauritania
“We have never seen this multistakeholders’ unity/coordination mechanism ever, which was possible by Shushilan consortium under this project. We thank you… for your support to make us coordinated to respond to citizen needs.”
Sheikh Mohammad Ali
Councilor, Khulna City Corporation, Bangladesh