Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica
The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. CoopAfrica assists cooperatives 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.
Duration
1 February 2008 - 31 December 2011
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Working Paper No. 1 - Reinventing the wheel? : African cooperatives in a liberalized economic environment
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Working Paper No. 2 - Enterprise future lies in cooperation : entrepreneur cooperatives in Africa : an introductory paper
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Working Paper No. 3 - African cooperatives and the financial crisis
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Working Paper No. 5 - Social economy approaches to mainstreaming HIV/AIDS : the case of the Kasojetua youth group
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Working Paper No. 6 - Fair trade - fair futures : the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union scholarship programme for orphan and vulnerable children
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Working Paper No. 7 - Cooperatives in Africa : the age of reconstruction : synthesis of a survey in nine African countries
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Working Paper No. 10 - Surviving liberalization : the cooperative movement in Kenya
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Working Paper No. 16 - Bearing the brunt of a liberalized economy : a performance review of the cooperative movement in Zambia
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Working Paper No. 12 - The hope for rural transformation : A rejuvenating cooperative movement in Rwanda
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Working Paper No. 17 - Cooperatives in Zanzibar: Decline and renaissance
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Working Paper No. 18 - Cooperative policy and law in east and southern Africa: A review
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Working Paper No. 19 - The cooperative model for the delivery of home based care services for people living with HIV
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Working Paper No. 8 - Cooperatives and development: a case of citizen economic empowerment in Botswana
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Working Paper No. 13 - Economic empowerment of Swazi society through cooperative development
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Working Paper No. 14 - Cooperatives in Tanzania mainland: Revival and growth
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Working Paper No. 15 - Cooperatives: The sleeping economic and social giants in Uganda
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Working Paper No. 9 - Cooperatives: a path to economic and social empowerment in Ethiopia
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Working Paper No. 7 - Cooperatives in Africa: The age of reconstruction - synthesis of a survey in nine African countries