Based on the diagnoses of eight coastal communities in the Northern Gulf of California, CEDO promotes actions that impact their well-being. In the past, CEDO has had insufficient human and financial resources to address social and biodiversity issues on the Sonoran Desert mainland.

On the coast, CEDO has focused mainly on biodiversity and has only recently begun to address the social realm. It is imperative that we implement actions that generate the well-being of our communities to ensure a sustainable development and leave no one behind. To achieve this, CEDO fosters:

• Self-managing communities by providing advice, support, and capacity building; generating case studies to document and demonstrate a clear increase in effectiveness for infrastructure improvements management, capacity-building efforts, actions that impact public health and education.
• A circular economy aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources, and generating clean energy.
• The design of productive models based on equity, justice, a fair economy, environmental responsibility, and democracy (social solidarity economy networks).
• The Culinary Conservation approach, which seeks to connect people with their food sources to facilitate the communities’ well-being and the conservation of species and ecosystems.