Turning to Partners with Recognized Expertise

When defining the economic and social projects we support, we work with partners renowned for their expertise, including institutions and NGOs specialized in education and microfinance. Their skills and perspective help us do a better job of:

• More effectively offsetting the negative impacts of our activities.
• Optimizing the projects defined in concert with local populations and authorities and pinpointing avenues of improvement.

Establishing and Maintaining Dialogue

The Agrisud project backed by Total E&P Angola has helped
70 families learn to cultivate land. They are now on
the road to self-sufficiency.

Example: Helping Farmers in Angola

For years now, Total E&P Angola has supported a project run by NGO Agrisud, which aims to teach or re-teach crop cultivation techniques to refugees and demobilized soldiers who were once farmers and are now landless after years of civil war.

The project enabled 70 families, or 400 people, in the towns of Cabiri and Caop, near Luanda, to become self-sufficient. It involved:

• Fighting economic insecurity by developing small plots of land to generate a regular income.
• Providing start-up assistance and skills transfer to enable the participants to manage their farms and sell their produce at a profit.

Four years after the project's launch, the farmers organized a cooperative and took over from Agrisud. These 400 people can now meet their own needs more effectively. Almost 800 people have been trained in total.