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September 25, 2020 COVID-19: Impact on Agricultural Cooperatives Our member, Land O’Lakes Venture37, in collaboration with USAID Office of Local Sustainability has collected data to understand impact of the pandemic on cooperatives in 8 countries. The USAID Cooperative Development Program, funded out of the USAID Office of…

April 20, 2020 Cooperative Governance Assessment Identifying Cooperative Board Training Needs by Stages in the Board’s Development. The US Overseas Cooperative Development Council recently developed tools to identify unique director training needs of early stage cooperatives in developing countries. This manual…

April 19, 2020 Context Study Kenya What Difference Do Cooperatives Make? is a multi-year, multi-country cross-regional research study conducted under the guidance of the OCDC Research Group. It focuses on the effects that cooperatives have on the social and economic well-being of individuals and their…

April 19, 2020 Context Study Poland This is a desk review and an attempt to capture a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the situation of Polish cooperatives today, rather than a detailed presentation of the evolution of the movement or its branches. It cannot do justice to the analyses and empirical material…

October 15, 2019 Key Stakeholder Presentation and Dialogue – Philippines This overview paper for the study “What Difference do Cooperatives Make?” in the Philippines sets out the initial findings of the recent research conducted by the International Cooperative Research Group of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council.…

October 15, 2019 Key Stakeholder Presentation and Dialogue – Kenya This paper provides an overview of the initial findings of recent research on the cooperative sector in Kenya and identifies some possible paths for policy and/or further debate and exploration. “What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?” in Kenya tells us that…

June 10, 2019 Start A COOP 101 Start.COOP by International Labour Organization (ILO) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License. Start.COOP has been developed as a low-cost, easy to use training tool for those interested in starting and launching…

January 09, 2019 Ethiopia – Side Selling Self Help Africa (SHA) has been implementing a project since 2010 targeted at increasing the income of malt barley farmers in Ethiopia through more effective cooperative management in Arsi and West Arsi Zones of Oromia region. The project has been supporting Galema…

January 09, 2019 Assessing Cooperative Training Needs in Developing Countries It is widely known that a competent board of directors is an important factor in cooperative success. However, directors of local cooperatives in developing countries may be unfamiliar with democratic governance processes and the skills needed for effective directing.…

January 09, 2019 Not Too Poor To Invest: The Case For Smallholder Farmer Ownership Programs Experience has shown creation and growth of a member-owned capital base is crucial to the long-term sustainability of member owned businesses and can provide an effective savings tool and financial safety net for smallholder farmers. Information presented in the paper…