Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 100.5FM is a non-commercial, co-operatively-owned, listener-supported, community radio station. Located in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Co-op Radio is a voice for the voiceless that strives to provide a space for under-represented and marginalized communities. Co-op Radio aims to increase community participation by encouraging examination of the social and political […]
Flor de Nicaragua
The Flor de Nicaragua project began in November 2011 with the objective of strengthening women-owned businesses particularly in textiles, artisanry, and food production. It began working with women involved in the MyDEL (Women and Local Economic Development) project and with those working with Cospe and Chinantlan, eventually forming the network La Flor de Nicaragua with […]
Hospitals and Health Training for Nepal
“Nepal’s health indicators are embarrassing.” Indira Panta names poverty, malnutrition, ignorance, deep-rooted traditional beliefs, rampant urbanization and deteriorating environmental conditions as negative factors affecting the health of the Nepalese people. “Government efforts alone are not enough to combat the situation,” she says. The Nepal Health Care Co-operative Ltd. (NEHCO) was founded in March 2006 in […]
Nepal Health Care Co-operative
Nepal Health Care Co-operative is Nepals biggest healthcare cooperative, running hospitals and medical teaching programs.
Protecting small rice growers thanks to an innovative index-based crop insurance product
Agriculture is a key activity in Sri Lanka, but is mainly practiced by poor smallholders who farm very small parcels of land. Plus, farm yields are subject to unstable weather conditions and wide price fluctuations that threaten farmers’ incomes. Under such conditions, crop insurance is seen as essential to safeguarding farmer assets. But, to make […]
National Auditing Union of Workers Co-operatives (NAUWC)
Established on 14th November 1991 as a successor of an organisation liquidated during the political transformation in Poland, NAUWC associates production and service co-operatives and cooperates also with social co-operatives. Moreover, the Students Development Cooperative Fund belongs to NAUWC. The statutory activities include auditing, training and archiving documents and are conducted through Regional Offices located […]
Breaking Free From Deep-Rooted Sexism
Founded by nine young unemployed women in 1990 in Scalea, a pretty town along the Calabrian coast, the Idea 90 social cooperative quickly became a local leader in childcare provision. It now works with public authorities and many businesses in the local area to provide a range of services, mostly for children (nurseries, summer schools) […]
Idea 90
Idea 90 is a social cooperative founded in 1990 in Scalea (Calabria), Italy. It quickly became a leader in providing socio-educational services for children. For over 20 years it has worked to alleviate problems faced in the region and in 2010 Idea 90 served as the voice of the third sector in discussions regarding planning […]
Small savings, big development for farmers in northern Uganda
Small savings, big development is the motto of Koboko United Cooperative, a savings and credit co-operative (SACCO) in northern Uganda, an area that is still recovering from the effects of civil war. One of the best SACCOs in the West Nile region, its nine employees serve 2780 members. Established in 2003, Koboko SACCO is addressing […]
Finnish Cooperative Banks Shape Their Own Destiny
Cooperative banks are hugely important in Finland, with a combined market share of over one-third, one of the highest in Europe. The cooperative banking sector in the country was shaken up in the 1990s, when a minority of banks split from the central cooperative banking group, OP Group. They formed their own competing cooperative banking […]