Resources on cooperatives

  1. Business Group Formation Empowering Women and Men in Developing Communities

    01 January 2008

    This manual helps trainers to promote group formation as a way to empower women and men in low income communities. It is designed for use in workshops to facilitate the process of group formation and development for joint production, business and/or social activities, such as buying raw materials together, sharing business premises, joint marketing and mutual assistance in coping with family emergencies.

  2. Social Finance Working Paper #12: Using credit unions as conduits for micro-enterprise lending

    01 October 1995

    Latin American insights