Overall Description of COOPAfrica
Launched on 2nd October 2007, the Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica - is a regional technical cooperation programme of the Cooperative Programme of the ILO (EMP/COOP) decentralised to the ILO Office in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The CoopAfrica programme is based on an ILO preliminary research project - Research for a Cooperative Facility for Africa undertaken in Africa in 2005. The latter has revealed that cooperatives in Africa are about to enter a phase of “renaissance”, but need a favourable legal and institutional environment, greater visibility, a stronger voice, further diversification, improved governance, better management, and solid horizontal networks and vertical structures.
Based on these findings, CoopAfrica pursues the overarching goal of mobilizing the cooperative self-help mechanism and to improve their governance, efficiency and performance in order to strengthen their capacity to create jobs, access markets, generate income, reduce poverty, provide social protection and give people a voice in society. To spread and strengthen its effectiveness, CoopAfrica is developed from a group of core countries, pilots new tools, and promotes knowledge sharing. Other African regions and countries are being added on.
COOPAfrica's recipients
The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica - is designed as a flexible, rapid intervention instrument that could be called upon by governments, cooperative movements and development partners to provide advisory services, technical assistance, training, tools and, in special cases, financial support for cooperative development in Africa.
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