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This month’s featured theme is women-led cooperatives, highlighting stories from coops with women who are changing the world.

Bringing Power to India’s Poorest Women Workers

Bringing Power to India’s Poorest Women Workers How many times do we need to prove that poor women are bankable?” asks Jayshree Vyas, managing director of the SEWA bank. In the case of this cooperative bank it has proven that about 97 per cent of its lenders meet their repayments – a better rate than […]

Empowering Women Through Their Own SACCOS

Rural women in developing countries are at a serious disadvantage when trying to access credit. ORUDE, the Organization for Rural Development, is a grassroots NGO in south-eastern Uganda. Formed in 1997, the organization had been mobilizing and training rural women’s economic groups and preparing them to absorb credit. It then helped the groups to open […]

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Traditional Art at Fair Prices

At the cobblestoned corner of 4 Norte and 4 Oriente, 400 indigenous women sell their work. Embroidered shirts, jewelry, paper hangings and other traditional handcrafts fill shelves and line walls. Craft shops are no rare thing in the historic downtown of Puebla, Mexico and tourists flock through the streets clutching plastic bags stuffed with gifts […]

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Asiapro Multi-Purpose Cooperative

Asiapro Multi-purpose Cooperative ranks among the country’s largest and excellently managed social enterprises. From a pioneer workers cooperative established in 1999 by 60 members who envisioned marginalized, low-income workers enjoying the full benefits of regular employment, Asiapro (together with its affiliates) exponentially grew and became a strong collective force of... Read more →

Coomeva

Coomeva es la unión de profesionales más importante de Colombia, que se asocian para acceder solidariamente a servicios de bienestar para ellos y sus familias. La misión de Coomeva es contribuir al desarrollo integral del asociado y su familia, al fortalecimiento del Sector Cooperativo y a la construcción de capital... Read more →

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Australian Parliament passes reforms for co-operatives and mutuals

This is the culmination of three years’ work by Mutuo together with the Australian Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) and an unprecedented collaboration between Australian businesses. We have worked closely with the BCCM for five years, helping to develop a strong narrative around the importance of co-operatives and... Read more →

Mutuo

Founded in 2001, Mutuo works internationally to improve the business environment for the co-operative and mutual sector by: Communicating their priorities to decision makers Acting as an advocate with politicians and regulators Building links between mutual business leaders Developing new mutual businesses Mutuo works with some of the largest and... Read more →