Associação para Desenvolvimento Local Co-produzido (Adelco), founded in 2001, is a non-profit civil entity located in Fortaleza-Ce.

Lines of action:

- Ethnodevelopment

- Habitability

- Participation and political organization

- Institutional Development

- Environment and agroecology

- Food and nutrition security

- Human rights

- Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER)

- Socio-environmental technologies and coexistence with the semi-arid

Cross-cutting themes:

- Gender equality

- Gender, Generation and Ethnicity

- Environmental sanitation

- Environmental education

- Community based / ethnoecological tourism

Development of Socio-environmental Technologies:

- Organic Fossas

- Rainwater harvesting cisterns

- Agroforestry Systems

- Ecological trails

- Forest restoration

- Productive backyards

- Water quality monitoring

- Participatory Environmental Inventories

- Environmental and Territorial Management Plans in Indigenous Lands (PGATIs)

- Participatory Rapid Diagnosis (DRP)

- Business plans and elaboration of productive and cultural projects

During these years, they implemented a model program for indigenous dwellings , developed housing microcredit projects, implemented the Emergency Fund for reform and construction of popular houses and projects with productive microcredit, carried out solidarity, cultural and ethnic tourism projects (handicrafts, structuring of trails ethno-ecological, mapping, participatory inventories of fauna and flora). In the area of ecological sanitation , they built cisterns to capture rainwater and ecological pits and developed actions to monitor water resources and environmental education. In the field of family agriculture, they invest in agroecology by supporting the organization of the production of productive yards and agroforestry systems, they support the commercialization of the products and also in the elaboration of Business Plans of Collective Enterprises. In the field of culture, they facilitate museological training; they support the structuring of indigenous museums and the constitution of environmental collections. In the field of citizenship , Adelco also supports its partners in institutional strengthening and social control through communication actions, human rights training, lobbying and advocacy campaigns.