The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica - is a technical cooperation programme for the promotion of cooperative development in Africa. From the ILO Office in Dar-es-Salaam, CoopAfrica covers so far 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa with support of the ILO Cooperative Programme in Geneva. CoopAfrica aims at helping people to co-operate out of poverty as well as to deal with the cooperative needs such as they have been identified in CoopAfrica's preliminary research project, Research for a Cooperative Facility for Africa. Together with a wide range of international and national partners, CoopAfrica promotes an enabling legal and policy environment, effective cooperative unions and federations as well as demand-driven services for cooperatives.

What's new

• The First List of Cooperative Centres of Competence (business service providers) in Africa, available now.(html file)
• Cooperating out of Poverty, The renaissance of the African cooperative movement, COOPAfrica, by Patrick Develtere,Ignace Pollet & Fredrick Wanyama -(pdf file, 3526kb)• (Aussi disponible en français, pdf 2.08Mb)
• OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF PROJECT : The Enhanced Fish Market Information Service (EFMIS) and the Lake Victoria Biodiversity Informatics (LAVIBI) projects were jointly officially launched on 8th September 2009 at KMFRI Kisumu Centre. - (pdf file, 726kb)

Ongoing and upcoming activities 19-21 October, 09: Conference “The social economy – Africa’s response to the global crisis” Johannesburg -(pdf file, 49kb)