Fostering Sustainable Communities through Agriculture

When agricultural producers get a leg up through training, grants, and access to finance, it lifts the entire community.

Drawing for Our Rights

Salvadoran youth submitted artwork tackling social and human rights issues such as migration, LGBTQI+ discrimination, gender equality, forced disappearances, and mental health as part of our Rights and Dignity project’s art contest. View all 21 powerful works of art.

Explore Milestones in Citizen-led Change

Counterpart's 2022 Annual Report

Elevating the Voices of Women Changemakers in Climate Sector

We hosted a roundtable discussion with The World Bank to highlight the voices and experiences of women civil society leaders working in the climate sector.
Focus Areas

Standing alongside our partners for positive, lasting change

For more than 55 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.

Innovation Leads to Improved Financial Practices Among Guatemalan Producers

Innovation Leads to Improved Financial Practices Among Guatemalan Producers

In Guatemala, loan service professionals like Wilmer Loayes and Luis Loarca are introducing innovative tools and investments that provide loans more efficiently through the Federación Nacional de Cooperativas de Ahorro...
Drawing For Our Rights

Drawing For Our Rights

Counterpart’s Rights and Dignity project launched an art contest titled “Drawing For Our Rights” with our local partners ConTextos and Partners El Salvador in observance of International Youth Month. The...
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 stringing 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