Identifying Processes and Policies Conducive to Cooperative Development in Africa

This report is the intermediate outcome of a joint project by the International Cooperative Research Group, a division of the US Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC), and the European Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprises (Euricse), designed to support the creation of cooperatives and the scaling up of development strategies in the agricultural sector of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The research is focused on cooperative development programs conducted in the agrarian sector of African countries by cooperative enterprises, as well as by cooperative development organizations (CDOs) linked to the North American and European cooperative movements.