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 womens economic groups and preparing them to absorb credit. It then helped the groups to open […]
Federación de Cooperativas Federadas Ltda.
FECOFE IS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE AGRI-FOOD COOPERATIVES. We are a cooperative of cooperatives. We represent traditional agricultural livestock cooperatives and processed food cooperatives. Today we have 38 associated cooperatives in 8 provinces, and many others in the process of association, covering a wide spectrum of socio-economic and productive realities. Our reason for being is cooperatives and […]
Building Synergy in the Community the Cooperative Way
“In a world where the rich continually get richer, we hear millions of people suffering from malnutrition, oppression and massive exploitation. We have our own share of the powerless, the unemployed, the hungry and the disadvantaged. It is within such a world that Simbayanan called to serve.” In 1992, SMMPC was transformed into a community […]
Simbayanan ni Maria Multi-Purpose Cooperative
SMMPC: Building Synergy in the Community the Cooperative Way “In a world where the rich continually get richer, we hear millions of people suffering from malnutrition, oppression and massive exploitation. We have our own share of the powerless, the unemployed, the hungry and the disadvantaged. It is within such a world that Simbayanan called to […]
KFCC (Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives)
Community Credit Cooperative(CC, Saemaul Geumgo) CC had its beginning with five credit cooperatives, established in Gyeongsangnam-do in 1963. CC, as a financial cooperative, inherits the spirit of mutual help, which is also a main source of Gye, Hyangyak, Dure and has been playing not only economic functions of credit and insurance service but also social […]
Young Farmers for the Future
Before 2011, formation of farmers labor organization was forbidden in Myanmar. AFFM was established, with a few members who owned less than 10 acres of land. In 2014, with the help of the MTCP2 Project, AFFM started to organize more farmer members from village levels to township and up to region / state levels. Finally […]
Fighting climate change – with gender equality
Myanmar is third most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the world. A We Effect and Mern project support women and men to work together to overcome the challenges. It’s not an iceberg the size of New York crashing into the ocean, a massive forest threatening a California city, or a starving polar […]
Poverty alleviation through strengthening of farmers’ economy
Siem Reap economy is rapidly growing dominated by tourism sector creating many jobs for people in Siem Reap municipality who enjoy a bit better lives compared to people living at rural communities. Farmers still face food insecurity and malnutrition mainly for women and children due to low agricultural yield which farmers solely depend on. Malnutrition […]
Yen Bai PCA (Viet Nam) – successful story in cooperatives
Tram Tau district is one of the most difficult areas in Yen Bai province, located in a mountainous area with nearly 100% of the population from an ethnic minority (H’Mong and Thai people). The bad traffic condition, severe weather, along with the limitation of land for agriculture, prevent people here from improving the living condition. […]