FRANCAISComité français pour la solidarité internationale - History
1990-1999
-1990-1997, Israel/Palestine: the CFSI trains hydraulic agents and develops a poultry-breeding sector with PARC (Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee) in the Gaza Strip; the programmes are halted for one year in 1994.
-1993, France: the CFSI formally emancipates itself from the tutelage of the ministries of Cooperation and Foreign Affairs.
-Since 1995, Congo-Brazzaville: the CFSI works with FJEC (Forum of Young Firms of Comafrique), created in 1990; during the fights in 1999, the CFSI helps FJEC to keep its funds safe.
-1998, France: the CFSI stops publishing the Nations Solidaires magazine and goes through a large internal crisis. Three CFSI members, GRET (Technological Research and Exchange Group), CICDA International Centre for Agricultural Development Cooperation) and GRDR (Research and Action Group for Third World Rural Development), narrowly avoid the end of the Committee, which refocuses on 32 organisations after the departure of the structures that considered themselves as “ competitors ” for they collected funds on their own behalf.
-1999, France: through the mediation of its president, Jacques Pelletier, the CFSI participates in the creation of the High Committee for International Cooperation, a consultative body functioning as an interface between NGOs and public institutions.
-Since 1999, Cambodia: the CFSI assists the CEDAC (Cambodian Study and Agrarian Development Center) in its rice-growing programmes.
