CRIC - Centro Regionale
d'Intervento per la Cooperazione

CRIC in Italy:
Via Monsolini, 12, 89121 - Reggio Calabria
Tel.: +39 0965 812345
Fax: +39 0965 812560
e-mail: info@cric.it
Website: www.cric.it
Contact person: Lia Bandera (CRIC President)

CRIC is a no-profit association born in 1983, active mainly in the fields of cooperation and solidarity.
CRIC perception of co-operation is based on the following assumption:
"an exchange among the different social, cultural and economic realities active in Italy and their correspondents in the South of the World" CRIC's intent is to carry out a south - south co-operation based on the sharing of resources, positive values and experiences in an optic of mutual exchange among the south of Italy and the South of the world, without distinction of geographical area.

CRIC is engaged in:

• Promoting a sustainable self development with regard to local society and eco-system. This is achieved by building and supporting networks with social forces and by supporting processes of participative democracy;
• Implementing, with local partners, programs aiming to facilitate exchange of research and experimentation of possible alternative socio-economic models. Programs are also the tool for a broader shared planning that aims to support the assertion of populations sovereignty on the resources of their own territories;
• Activating, with local Communities and Organizations, which are the stakeholders in the process of change in the south of Italy and in the intervention territories, informative campaigns on the defense of social rights, valorizing positive experiences of partners;
• Playing an active role in the process of resistance to the unfair trade systems, through the activation of campaigns of civil mobilization on the causes and consequences of the present globalization model. Supporting initiatives linked with other active movements in the territory and in co-ordination with them;
• Promoting development policies, implementing development and humanitarian programs including disaster preparedness. In its programs CRIC always aims at working in countries where it has relations with local partners and to follow a strategy that refuses pure welfares and aims at accompanying populations from an emergency situation to a sustainable self development process;
• Promoting a "diversity preserving" approach in order to preserve identities of minorities;
• Adopting a "listening" approach, recognizing and revising contributions and value of other cultures and in a gender approach, to be included as a practice in CRIC's initiatives in Italy and abroad.