Its Creation: an Institution Created by the Cooperative Movement In 1985, some of Quebec's cooperatives and mutual societies came together to create an organization that would allow them to share their experience and expertise with cooperative and mutual organizations from developing countries in their development activities. This was the creation of SOCODEVI: Société de coopération pour le développement international, a Canadian nonprofit corporation. Our mission Through the involvement of its member institutions and through promotion of the cooperative and mutual movement and other forms of association, SOCODEVI contributes to sustainable development in partner countries with a view to empowering their inhabitants. Our approach: intercooperation Direct cooperation between Canadian cooperatives and mutuals and cooperative and associative enterprises in developing countries. Since our founding, volunteer experts from our institutional members have donated the equivalent of 52 work years to our activities