The South-East Consortium for International Development (SECID) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1977 to enable our member institutions to provide research, training, and extension to developing nations.

With a membership encompassing 14 universities that span more than a dozen southern and eastern states, SECID is larger than any other U.S. consortium of universities dedicated to international development. This size, when combined with the quality of our member institutions, provides SECID with a number of advantages that strengthen the services we offer.

SECID constitutes an alliance of Space, Sea and Land Grant institutions, all mandated by law to serve as resources of economically and socially responsible research and extension to their respective communities and, through their international work, the world at large.

 

SECTORS & SERVICES

 

Agriculture - with significant experience spanning farm to market, including policy, value chain analysis, research and extension, production, shipment and storage, and marketing.

 

Civil society development - focusing on developing and strengthening the capacity of cooperatives, associations and other organizations in rural and urban settings to improve the participation and representation of the poor and women in their own development.

 

Education - including education policy, management and curriculum development with strong experience at all levels and types of education.

 

Information & knowledge management - spanning data collection, information management system development and monitoring and evaluation, SECID's experience focuses on transforming data and information into knowledge to improve performance.

 

Institutional development - including human resource development and training, automation, training program design and implementation, and improvement of management systems for organizations from the community to the national level.

 

Natural resources management - covering all aspects of environmental management from ridge to reef ecosystems, SECID's experience includes areas as diverse as research, policy, management, and analysis.

 

Other sectors - drawing from the wealth of resources from our member institutions, SECID has demonstrated considerable success in implementing projects covering topics ranging from energy resource management to transportation planning.