SOFRECO's organisation

SOFRECO is organised in three units subdivided into departments grouped by theme, each of which is in charge of one or several technical fields:

The Sustainable Development business unit includes 3 departments:

• the Agriculture and Rural Development department;
• the Environment and Natural Resource Management department;
• the Mines department.

The Industry, Energy, Infrastructures and Private Sector business unit includes the following departments:

• the Engineering, Agribusiness, Chemicals and Fertiliser, Industry department;
• the Private Sector Development department;
• the Infrastructures and Energy department.

The Public Affairs unit includes the following departments:

• the Economy department;
• the Governance and Public Management department;
• the Education, Professional Training and Social Development department.

The field of Health is under the responsibility of SOFRECO's subsidiary, Conseil Santé.

SOFRECO has horizontal services that support the technical departments in the following areas:

• administration and finance;
• quality control;
• supply and logisitics;
• IT;
• internal and external human resource management.

SOFRECO's experts

SOFRECO employs several hundred senior and junior experts of various nationalities, the vast majority of whom are technical specialists (engineers, agronomists, geologists, hydraulics engineers, economists, jurists, accountants, architects, educational specialists, project administrators, actuaries, specialists of transport, international trade, public finance, information systems, investment promotion, etc.).

Many of these experts are from countries where SOFRECO implements its assignments. They are often irreplaceable sources of knowledge regarding the environment in which SOFRECO's teams operate, but they can also be called on to intervene in countries other than their own when they have the appropriate expertise.

SOFRECO's head office staff

SOFRECO employs some hundred staff at head office, all of whom have proven expertise in international project management.

More than half are technical specialists (engineers, economists, jurists, human resource specialists, organisers, etc.) who manage project implementation and provide expert services. The others are contract managers or supervisory and support staff (IT specialists, logisticians). All are entirely familiar with the legal, financial and cultural specificities of working internationally in their specialised field.

All SOFRECO's head office staff speak, read and write fluently in English and French, but many other languages are also used, particularly Arabic, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Spanish.