Groupe initiatives is a platform of non-governmental development organisations. The main objective is to enhance its impact by sharing experiences, knowledge and know-how. It is composed of six French associations for development cooperation working for achieving poverty eradication and the empowerment of the poor.
Members share a common ambition for engendering development that genuinely serves local populations via action – research and institutional capacity building : GRDR (Research and accomplishment group for rural development), GRET (Research and technological exchange group), IRAM (Institute of research and accomplishment of development methods), RAFOD / CIEDEL (Network of actions and training for development / Centre of international studies on local development), AVSF (Veterinarians without borders – International centre of cooperation for agricultural development) and HSF (Hydraulique sans frontières).