All publications: cooperatives

How women fare in East African cooperatives: the case of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Policy brief # 6

Enhancing the Participation of Rural Women Producers in Cooperatives in Yemen

This policy brief aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over the role of cooperatives in generating employment and income earning opportunities for women in Yemen and elsewhere in Arab States.

Cooperative facility for Africa - CoopAfrica (Mid Term Evaluation Summary)

Project RAF/06/53/UKM - Evaluation consultants: Salome Omolo, Jennifer Blumberg

Working Paper No. 16 - Bearing the brunt of a liberalized economy : a performance review of the cooperative movement in Zambia

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 16 - Series on the status of cooperative development in Africa

Working Paper No. 10 - Surviving liberalization : the cooperative movement in Kenya

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 10 - Series on the status of cooperative development in Africa

Working Paper No. 7 - Cooperatives in Africa : the age of reconstruction : synthesis of a survey in nine African countries

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 7 - Series on the status of cooperative development in Africa

Working Paper No. 6 - Fair trade - fair futures : the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union scholarship programme for orphan and vulnerable...

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 6 - with ILO/AIDS, Series on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in the world of work – responses from the social economy

Working Paper No. 5 - Social economy approaches to mainstreaming HIV/AIDS : the case of the Kasojetua youth group

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 5 - with ILO/AIDS, Series on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in the world of work – responses from the social economy

Working Paper No. 3 - African cooperatives and the financial crisis

Considers how institutions from the social economy, particularly cooperatives and cooperative financial institutions throughout the world and in Sub-Saharan Africa, are managing the current crisis and how they may be contributing to impact...

Working Paper No. 2 - Enterprise future lies in cooperation : entrepreneur cooperatives in Africa : an introductory paper

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 2

Training resource pack for agricultural cooperatives on the elimination of hazardous child labour

The goal of this resource kit is to raise awareness, help cooperative trainers to plan and run activities, and improve occupational safety and health conditions and promote the implementation of ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No....

Training resource pack for agricultural cooperatives on the elimination of hazardous child labour

The goal of this resource kit is to raise awareness, help cooperative trainers to plan and run activities, and improve occupational safety and health conditions and promote the implementation of ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No....

Report

Cooperating out of child labour: Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour

This report has been produced as a call to action to the world cooperative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. Cooperatives and the cooperative movement have an important, but as yet unharnessed, role to play in the elimination of child...

Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis

The financial and ensuing economic crisis has had negative impacts on the majority of enterprises; however, cooperative enterprises around the world are showing resilience to the crisis. Financial cooperatives remain financially sound; consumer...

Cooperating out of poverty: The renaissance of the African cooperative movement

This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s.

Business group formation

The Business Group Formation (BGF) manual was developed with a view to help promote business group formation as a way to empower women and men in low-income communities by giving them more voice and improving their businesses in order to enhance...

MATCOM Cooperative management training

Cooperatives and elimination of child labour in agriculture

World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2007: Information sheet: Cooperatives and elimination of child labour in agriculture

Empower rural women - end poverty and hunger: the potential of African cooperatives. Initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa

This leaflet provides an overview of how cooperatives can help to bridge gender gaps for positive development and poverty-reduction outcomes, and of possible action points for unleashing the potential of cooperatives based on examples from...