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Vision
Empowering local people and strengthening organizations active in the field of social and economic development in Africa.
Mission
Developing local capacities
Values
Equality, Inclusion, Participation, Innovation
ABOUT US
CaDev is a Zambian social enterprise focused on localised innovation development, technical assistance and knowledge management. We support local people and organisations to unlock innovative solutions for sustainable and inclusive growth and development. We strengthen local capacities for designing innovative ways to successfully capitalise on local ideas. In addition, we help locals become a highly valued resource for private, public and non-profit sectors that invest in innovative projects in-country.
Besides facilitating innovation, CaDev generates innovation itself. Through its own experience, CaDev understands very well the innovative capacity needs of local people and local organizations that are key to seizing opportunities for growth and development on the growing African continent.
Our Purpose
There is a dire need to strengthen locals and build on the value they offer in their understanding of their own context. That way, locals will become more attractive and more highly valued by international players, better equipped to seize opportunities that the world offers and better able to promote sustainable growth and development using their embeddedness in the local environment.
Localisation is receiving more attention as seen by the push for local sourcing of agricultural produce, local procurement of mining services, hiring of expertise in-country, contracting of local implementation partners and involvement of local communities in the design and implementation of projects or channelling of investments. But localisation is not an immediate outcome of this push. It is a journey that needs a facilitating partner. Both sides, local and international, need to find each other, build trust and create a breeding ground for collaboration. CaDev acts as a bridge between the two, offering an understanding of both the international and local context, the expertise to bring the two worlds together and the devotion to create synergies for a greater, lasting development impact.