SECID offers many advantages to our clients:

• A central management team that efficiently and effectively backstops
  overseas projects;

• Unparalleled access to resources and opportunities such as
  state-of-the-art laboratories, agricultural experiment stations, marine
  research facilities, cooperative extension services, advanced analysis
  and communications systems, remote sensing and centers of excellence;

• Robust knowledge of the physical, environmental, and social settings
  where we work;

• A pool of specialists with an unequalled range of knowledge, international
  experience, foreign language ability, and cultural diversity thus facilitating
  the selection of the most appropriate personnel and institutional resources
  to meet project goals;

• A multidisciplinary approach to development that looks at the "broader
  picture" and draws on the practical knowledge of the resources of our
  member institutions;

• Innovative forms of collaboration with both the private sector,
  non-governmental organizations and all levels of governments; and

• Cost effective project management and implementation structures that
  ensure financial resources are directed to achieving tangible project goals.