Accountants Without Borders en route to Africa

Intent on making a positive contribution to local development and to the well-being of the less fortunate, CPASF's volunteer teams accompany and support local organizations in several African countries and in Haiti. On the ground, the teams share day-to-day life with their hosts, learn and promote new knowledge, and support the development of local skills in sound fiscal management, good governance, ethics, and equity.

It is for this reason that two CPASF teams set out for Africa in January and February 2026.

A CPASF team will be travelling to Guinea Conakry in partnership with UPA – DI to support COPRAKAM, the regional cooperative of agricultural producers and an active member of the National Confederation of Peasant Organizations of Guinea (CNOP-G). This regional cooperative of producers of shea, peanut and honey includes 8 grassroots local cooperatives with a total membership of 4,259 producers, of whom 3,689 are women and 300 youth. COPRAKAM’s main mission is to contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of its members by increasing the value added to agricultural products and by promoting improved marketing, while enhancing hygiene standards and product quality. CPASF’s team of accountants will help COPRAKAM optimize project management standards and administrative monitoring systems - more specifically those concerning management and supervision of inventories - needed to ensure the cooperative and its eight union members growth and well-being, with total transparency and with full participation.

Another CPASF team will be journeying to Côte d'Ivoire in collaboration with Carrefour International to provide support to Generation Women of the Third Millennium (GF3M). Founded by a group of women in 2004 in the context of the politico-military crisis that Côte d'Ivoire was going through at the time, GF3M set out to assist vulnerable people and to contribute to local development by focusing on improving the living conditions of women, children and young people in rural areas and in vulnerable neighbourhoods in the nation’s larger centres. More specifically, GF3M promotes access to justice and to sexual and reproductive health rights, and endeavours to reduce gender violence and to foster the leadership and the political representation of women and girls. It’s all about empowering women economically and fortifying their resilience to climate change. CPASF's team of accountants will work hand in hand with GF3M’s team to standardize project management, while controlling project expenses and costs by developing automated cash flow forecasting tools as well as providing the training needed to ensure their effective implementation.

Other overseas missions are in preparation. This spring we will be going to Senegal. Stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, if you are not already a CPASF member, you are invited to join us and to support our mission and work.

Photo: GF3M women participating in a training session.