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Progressio, formerly known as The Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) is an international development charity working for justice and the eradication of poverty. In Muslim countries it was known as International Cooperation for Development (ICD).

It was created in 1940, based primarily in the Roman Catholic church, but has been an ecumenical organization from the start. On 1 January 2006, CIIR changed its name to Progressio.^[1]

Progressio works with partner organizations in 11 countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Progressio's way of working is to combine skill-share with advocacy. With its partner organizations it identifys areas where the input of a development worker might lead to real change. It then recruits people for these jobs.

Progressio development workers are people who want to share their skills with communities that need them. Each development worker is professionally qualified with a minimum of two years' work experience, and often with a background in training — formal or informal.

In sharing its skills with partner organizations, its development workers aim also to improve the ability of its partners to advocate for change locally and nationally. At an international level, it supports and supplements the voices of its partners in seeking to change the systems and practices that create and perpetuate poverty in the global South.

In June 2007 it had 74 development workers in post coming from 30 different countries.