The Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECOEDECON) was initiated by a group of young social workers to provide relief to the flood victims in Jaipur district in 1982. Over the last 40 years the organization has become one of the leading Non-Governmental Development Organizations in Rajasthan, India.

It is committed to building the capacity of the poor and vulnerable sections of society to effectively and independently claim their rights. The interventions of CECOEDECON extend from building the capacities of partner communities in Rajasthan to engaging and networking at the national and international levels. CECOEDECON achieves its goals by partnering with a number of satellite organizations, technical & funding support organizations, Networks and the Government. Through a number of engagement campaigns CECOEDECON also aims to work on matters affecting the national, regional and international community, and thus indirectly extends its outreach to a larger number of people. CECOEDECON has a multi-disciplinary team where the members come from different disciplines, including professional social work, education, research, community leaders, judiciary, social activism, and media. Finally, we are guided by our core values which include: human dignity, community self reliance, equity, gender equality, democracy, welfare, and accountability.

The Vision of CECOEDECON is “to achieve such development which is socially acceptable, economically viable, environmentally sound, effective in impact and addressing to needs of the under privileged and marginalized people.”

The Mission is “to build the capacities of CECOEDECON’s partner communities - scheduled castes and tribes, small and marginal farmers, the landless, and deprived women and children-- in order to ensure that they are able to take action independently and effectively to secure their rights for long term well being.
Major Thematic Areas
● Livelihood Security: To facilitate the process of empowerment of the community so that they are able to realize their rights to productive resources, food and livelihoods.
● Economic Justice: To catalyze the process of the people’s participation in decision making, ensuring the protection of human rights in the process of economic development.
● Basic Rights: The theme of basic rights takes note of specific issues pertaining to children, health and gender at community and policy level that are not exclusively addressed in the other two themes such as food & nutritional security, access to justice, education and public health.
● Institutional Development: Building relationships and strengthening partnerships with larger civil society organizations, media, judiciary, NGOs, and satellite institutions to engage on policy matters. In addition, this theme includes building the institutional capacity of CBOs such as village development committees, and farmer associations at the block and district levels.

Contact Person: P.M. Paul
Email: paulpariyadan@gmail.com
Phone: 9829059203