Two electric cooperative leaders in Liberia and Uganda are proving the sustainability and potential of the co-op model.

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 […]

Kigayaza members not only sell products together, but they also have shared projects including pigs and growing trees. They concentrate on sharing information with each other, including through training and meetings which they see as a way to build each other’s knowledge. They have received a series of sensitisation and training meetings provided by Uganda […]

Uganda may be referred to by travel agents as the “Pearl of Africa” but twenty one years of civil war has done little to enhance the living conditions of Ugandans. This is particularly obvious in the country’’s north where 1.9 million people were displaced beginning with dictator Idi Amin’s atrocities followed by a series of […]