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Dear Friends of Counterpart:

In the first decade of the 21st century, Counterpart is being driven by its history into a growing role on the world stage, a catalytic activist role in partnership with intergovernmental agencies, with international business and with other non-governmental organizations to facilitate a more efficient use of the available resources of the First World to meet the needs of the Third World. We at Counterpart dare to hope that sooner rather than later, the peoples of both worlds will meet in One Just World of equitably shared resources.

Blessed with a young, eager, creative, hard-working, dedicated, future-oriented staff who are supported by a strong board, Counterpart faces the first decade of the new century with a sense of excitement.

We know that as an organization which grew dramatically in the nineties, we must secure an expanded institutional structure. Working with our board of directors and our International Advisory Council we are already implementing strategies designed to achieve this security by 2005.

Our global network has now developed national donor affiliates and partners in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Caribbean and Germany. In developing nations we have more than 20 autonomous local affiliates and another 25 offices well advanced towards local autonomy. This extraordinary international network is only just beginning to realize its own strength. We are confident that in the next decade, this
self-realization will mature into joint programming. In 10 years Counterpart may well become a network of interacting counterpartners in more than 100 nations on all continents.

Counterpart has distinguished itself in many different fields but the future will see this organization realizing our development objectives in a holistic fashion. Our many strengths will be brought together in a synergistic way to help us do our job better with fewer resources. We will be more nimble as we work to enhance our agility to enable us to respond more rapidly to the fast changing international development landscape.

Communications will be more than an information asset for Counterpart-it will be a development tool. In addition to incorporating a recognition of the central roles of justice and of culture in our work, Counterpart will also be known as an organization which fully integrates science and technology into its development operations.

Counterpart has already gone where other international groups have not set foot, for example, with our ground-breaking work in the Caribbean and in Brazil on designing sustainable tourism models as key elements of development. In an age of shrinking international aid resources we will be looking for other alternative sources of support for our development efforts.

We are going to be even more creative, innovative and productive and we at Counterpart hope you can be with us as we move into a brighter future.

Lelei LeLaulu

President and Chief Executive Officer