"Building a Just World Through Service and Partnerships"


Doctor in Afghanistan distributing medicines

No matter their race, ethnicity, or religion; every person wants to exist in a safe, clean, and healthy community. Unfortunately, the tolls of war, famine, disease, and economic instability across the globe prevent people from obtaining these goals.

It‘s these  circumstances that inspires Counterpart’s continued commitment to building a just world through service and partnership. Using a wide range of tools and methods to tackle the roots of these destructive forces, Counterpart works to ensure that all peoples have a voice in their own futures and exist in peace, prosperity and good health for generations. 

Recent News 


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The Board of Directors of Counterpart International is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie Meeks as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective November 1, 2008. Ms. Meeks comes to Counterpart with more than twenty years of non-profit management experience.  Most recently, she served as the Acting CEO of The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s largest and most influential conservation organizations. 

Counterpart International is a US-based international development and humanitarian assistance organization with an active development portfolio of 42 programs in 37 countries.  For more than forty years, Counterpart International has been working with local communities to build their capacity to identify and address their most pressing needs.  Counterpart’s approach is grassroots-based, demand-driven, and multi-disciplinary, integrating humanitarian and relief assistance, education, healthcare, democracy and governance, food security, enterprise and business development, and natural resource management programs.