The European Cooperative for Rural Development (EUCORD), formally registered as "European Development Cooperatie", is an independent Brussels-based not-for-profit organization incorporated under Dutch cooperative law in May 2003. Benefiting from the long-term project implementation and management experience of its senior staff, EUCORD has built over the past six years a strong and reliable project implementation capacity.

Presently, EUCORD has multi-year program activities in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone. All project activities are aimed at improving the livelihoods of rural communities. In each country, public funding is enhanced by private sector partners co-funding.