CoDev’s Canadian partners are unions, community groups and student organizations.  Each one takes on the responsibility to educate its membership about the Latin American partner and the conditions under which they are working for social justice as well as to develop exchange visits with the Latin American partner.  The Canadian partner is also asked to commit itself to the Latin American partner and the project for a minimum of three years. Linking these unions and community groups helps CoDev to play a valuable role in raising awareness and fostering support for international solidarity projects.   

Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA)
Latin American Partner: FOMCA Women's Commission (Central America)

British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU)
The BCGEU became a partner of CoDev in 1997 when they began supporting the Maria Elena Cuadra Movement of Working and Unemployed Women. In 1999 the International Solidarity Committee of the BCGEU decided to also support  the Honduran Women's Collective (CODEMUH) for their work with maquila workers.

Latin American Partners: APSIES (El Salvador), CODEMUH (Honduras) MEC (Nicaragua) & NOMADESC (Colombia)

British Columbia Nurses' Union (BCNU)
The BCNU became a partner of CoDev in 2005.

Latin American Partners: APSIES (El Salvador) & CODEMUH (Honduras)

British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF)
The BCTF is CoDevelopment Canada's most long-standing partner. In fact, it was out of discussions between BCTF representatives and members of the solidarity movement in British Columbia in 1985 that CoDevelopment Canada was created. Today they are partnered with teacher's organizations in nine Latin American countries and support leadership projects for women teachers. They also contribute annually toward the writing and publication of CoDev's development education resources, and have offered financial support and personnel expertise for a number of initiatives and events which CoDev has spearheaded, including the 1997 People's Summit Youth Forum and the on-going Democratic Initiatives for Education in the Americas (IDEA) project.

Latin American Partners: CGTEN-ANDEN (Nicaragua); STEG (Guatemala); SEC (Costa Rica); COLPROSUMAH (Honduras); FREP (Panama); FOMCA (Central America); SNTECD (Cuba); SUTEP (Peru); CONMERB (Bolivia).

Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF)
The Canadian Teachers' Federation has supported a number of projects and initiatives with CoDevelopment Canada since they became a partner in 1996. Since 1997 they have funded an innovative project to develop a non-sexist pedagogy in Central American educational systems. The CTF and affiliated teacher federations also contributed generously to reconstruction and rehabilitation projects in Central America after Hurricane Mitch. In February 2000, representatives from the Nova Scotia Teacher's Union and the Alberta Teacher's Federation participated in a two-week Hurricane 'follow-up' tour to Central America, visiting the reconstruction projects.

Latin American Partner: Non-Sexist Pedagogy (Regional)

Canadian Union of Public Employees, BC Region (CUPE BC)
CUPE BC is another of CoDev's longstanding partners. Their Solidarity Committee began supporting the María Elena Cuadra Movement of Working and Unemployed Women in 1995 and have had women from this organization speak to their convention delegates on many occasions. In 1997 eight CUPE BC representatives travelled to Cuba on an official fact-finding and solidarity tour. Following the tour, and the visit of a Cuban union leader to BC in the spring of 1998, CUPE BC partnered with the Cuban National Union of Public Sector Workers (SNTAP) and now supports professional development training for SNTAP leaders.

Latin American Partners: MEC (Nicaragua), NOMADESC (Colombia) & SNTAP (Cuba)

CUPE Global Justice
Latin American Partners: MEC (Nicaragua), NOMADESC (Colombia), SNTAP (Cuba) & Central American Women's Maquila Network

Centrale des Syndicats du Québec (CSQ)
Latin American Partner: FOMCA (Central America)

Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia (FPSE)
FPSE became a partner in 2001.

Latin American Partners: APSIES (El Salvador) & Central American Women's Maquila Network

Health Sciences Association (HSA)
HSA and CoDev began working together in 1989. The successful partnership can be attributed not only to the financial support for projects in the South, but also to the high level of commitment from the Committee for Equality and Social Action and the awareness that has been raised through HSA delegations to Central America and Southern partner visits to BC. They currently support a community development project with the Salvadoran Association for Integrated Community Health and Social Services (APSIES) in El Salvador.

Latin American Partners: APSIES (El Salvador), CODEMUH (Honduras) & Central American Women's Maquila Network

Hospital Employees' Union (HEU)
The HEU Solidarity Committee became a CoDev partner in 1994 to support the work of the María Elena Cuadra Movement of Working and Unemployed Women. Since 1997  their project partners have grown to include funding for training maquila workers at the Honduran Women's Collective (CODEMUH) and GRUFE in Guatemala, and assisting the Cuban Union of Health Workers with their Congress and the publication of a bulletin.

Latin American Partners: MEC (Nicaragua) & Central American Women's Maquila Network

Ometepe-Gulf Islands Friendship Association (OGIFA)
The Ometepe-Gulf Islands Friendship Association has been connected with communities on Ometepe Island in Nicaragua for over fifteen years. They partnered with CoDevelopment Canada in 1994 and projects have included emergency relief, a community consultation and needs assessment, school expansion, and training for young people in project management, administration and sustainable agriculture. OGIFA, based on Saltspring Island, sells fair trade, organic coffee from Ometepe at the local farmers market to help raise project funds.

Latin American Partners: Urbaite-Las Pilas Indigenous Community & MEC Granada (Nicaragua)

Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF)
Latin American Partner: FOMCA (Central America)

Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF)
PWRDF became a partner in 2002.

Latin American Partner: Central American Women's Maquila Network

Public Service Alliance of Canada

Latin American Partner: FENALTRASE (Colombia)

Surrey Teachers' Association (STA)
Latin American Partner: FOMCA Women's Commission (Central America)

United Nurses of Alberta (UNA)
UNA became a partner in 2002. 

Latin American Partner: MEC Managua (Nicaragua)

World Community Development Education Society (WCDES)
WCDES is a non-profit society with a mandate to foster awareness in the Comox Valley of development issues and the connections between local and global development. They became a CoDev partner in 1996 after linking up with the Foundation for the Autonomy and Development of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (FADCANIC) to support a local water project. In 1999 WCDES also partnered with Primary Health Attention (APS) in Nicaragua to support a training program for community health promoters and to purchase health kits for communities.

Latin American Partners: APS (Nicaragua)