Created in 1979 by French-speaking Belgian NGOs, Cota is a collective from the "appropriate technologies" movement. Cota's initial response to the challenges of international development was to develop technical tools…

In the 1980s, Cota became interested in the social, economic and political dimensions of development, and extended its areas of support to all aspects of project engineering with a social…

In the 1990s, Cota expanded its methodological (studies, action research, information/documentation, training and evaluation) and thematic (rural development, natural resource management, decentralized cooperation, fair trade, alternative energies, etc.) range. In…

advisory support centered on the knowledge of the actors and their capacity for self-determination. The logic of interaction, power relations and the diversity of interests between social groups and individuals…

At the turn of the 2020s, after more than 40 years of existence, Cota continues its commitment to the actors of social change, regardless of their sector or geographical area.…