Mission
Cota encourages, facilitates and supports the development and structuring of all initiatives and processes of change in favor of a social, economic, ecological and democratic transition.
Vision
Cota hopes that societies will progressively evolve towards an ecological humanism that is characterized by: the promotion of humanist values; an increased individual and collective awareness of the limitation of…
Co-constructing and “doing with it”
In all its actions, Cota develops a pragmatic approach, centered on the actors, starting from the immediate concerns of its partners and favoring co-construction rather than passive support. This approach…
Complementary scales of action
Les processus de changement globaux et locaux sont interdépendants. Le Cota développe ainsi une approche décloisonnée géographiquement, en diversifiant son ancrage en Belgique, en renforçant ses actions à l’international et…
Decompartmentalizing actors and sectors
Cota seeks to play the role of facilitator and mediator between its original sector (that of cooperation and development) and those of social intervention, transition, public policies or the private…
Territories – A lever for change
The vision of human development by sector of activity is restrictive and does not allow us to grasp the complexity of change phenomena. A territorialized approach allows for a better…
Overcoming the North-South divide
The image of a "developed" West (the North) and a "less developed" hemisphere (the South) no longer corresponds to the social and economic realities of today's world. The distribution of…
