Our Mission

Codespa sees a world where every individual living in extreme poverty has an opportunity to unlock their highest potential and become self-reliant through access to dignified and sustainable work.

We are on a mission to elevate 10 million more people from poverty to prosperity in the most underserved regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia through our community-led, scalable approach to rural market development and empowering entrepreneurs by providing them access to knowledge, markets, and financial services.

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Our core values are:

  • Integrity: As an organization and as individuals, we act with integrity.
  • Respect for the individual: The desire to place people (beneficiaries, volunteers and professionals) at the center of every activity. To believe in their dignity, creativity and capacity to actively participate in problem solving.
  • Transparency and austerity: We are committed to responsibly use and handle the resources we have available for fulfilling our mission.
  • Teamwork: We believe that lasting and effective solutions come from valuing beneficiaries’ skills, local partners and CODESPA team.
  • Professionalism: We strive to constantly improve our management skills to guarantee our objectives are achieved. CODESPA is always results—oriented.
  • Willingness to add value: We work hard so that our participation in the social transformation process multiplies people’s chances for development.
  • Optimism at work: We like to face problems and to turn them into development opportunities.
  • Co-responsibility: We are interested in promoting coordination of different social agents (public and private institutions) in the development programs, to achieve greater impact and instill responsibility for problem solving.

We support and work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. If you would like to learn a little more about us, please consult our blog.