The Confederation of Rural Development Centres (COCEDER) has over 40 years of experience in social intervention in rural areas. The organisation is a reference in social services in the most depopulated territories of Spain, operating in more than 400 municipalities. COCEDER’s mission is to address the challenge of depopulation and its wide-ranging impacts in terms of unequal opportunities, access to social services, environmental issues, and health, among others.

Main Areas of Work

• Children and young people
• Children at risk of social exclusion
• Elderly
• People with physical disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Social justice
• People who are socially vulnerable
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Migrants
• Social Integration
• Beneficiaries of minimum income
• Recipients of care
• Foster care

Responsibilities/ Services

• Providing social services
• Transformation of care models
• Role of the social worker
• Home care services for the elderly and dependent people
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Child protection
• Emotional support groups for family caregivers
• Fostering cooperation with non-governmental organisations and the promotion of social volunteering
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems
• Work for making possible the development of rural life in equal opportunities