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Cooperating Out Of Poverty is a campaign that is primarily conducted in the regions. This page provides an overview of some of the poverty reduction programmes and activities that have been carried out as part of Cooperating Out of Poverty in Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Africa
 Cooperating out of poverty - The renaissance of the African cooperative movement, Patrick Develtere, Ignace Pollett & Fredrick Wanyama (eds), International Labour Office, Cooperative Branch, Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department.
This publication includes the Foreword, Introduction and Executive Summary of Cooperating out of poverty: the renaissance of the African cooperative movement. The full book will be published in late 2007.
The book is the result of a study programme undertaken in 2006 funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the benefit of the African countries.
There will be 14 chapters in the full book: Chapter 1 Cooperative development in Africa up to the 1990's; Chapter 2 Renaissance of African cooperatives in the 21st century - lessons from the field; Chapter 3 The qualitative and quantitative growth of the cooperative movement in Kenya; Chapter 4 Growth without structures - the cooperative movement in Ethiopia; Chapter 5 Uganda - starting all over again; Chapter 6 The cooperative sector in Ghana - small and big business; Chapter 7 Political and Genuine Cooperatives in Enugu State - Nigeria; Chapter 8 Bad Memories, Good Prospects - Cooperatives in Niger; Chapter 9 The Egyptian co-operative movement - between State and Market; Chapter 10 Surviving on the islands - cooperatives in Cape Verde;Chapter 11 Jump-starting the Rwandan cooperative movement; Chapter 12 Cooperatives in South Africa - a movement (re)emerging; Chapter 13 The Senegalese cooperative movement - embedded in the social Economy; Chapter 14 The invisible, but resilient African cooperatives - some concluding remarks.
International Labour Office, Cooperative Branch, Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department, 4. route des Morillons, 1211 Geneva 22 Switzerland. Email: coop@ilo.org Website: www.ilo.org/coop
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 Organizing out of poverty: stories from the grassroots: How the SYNDICOOP approach has worked in East Africa, Stirling Smith and Cilla Ross, International Labour Organisation, the International Co-operative Alliance and the International Confederation of Free trade Unions, 2006
A report on how the SYNDICOOP approach offers an alternative - showing that workers can be organized, in a way that offers some improvements in their daily lives and provides the voice that workers need. SYNDICOOP promotes trade unions and co-operatives - membership-based organizations for workers in the informal economy. The booklet describes the difference that this approach has made in East Africa - in Kenya, Rwanda., Tanzania and Uganda.
36 pages
£2.00 inc UK postage
ISBN 0 85195 308 5
Available from: Co-operative College UK
Brief
Information about the ILO Project on Essential Research for a Co-operative
Facility for Africa (pdf)
Poverty Campaign activities in Africa (pdf)
SYNDICOOP
The SYNDICOOP approach tackles the challenge of
organizing workers in order to contribute to the goal of formalizing
their employment and ensuring their rights. This unique ILO programme
is a joint initiative designed and implemented in partnership with
the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and
the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). Within the ILO, the
Programme is led by the Co-operative Branch of the Employment Sector
and the Bureau for Workers’ activities.
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Evaluation: SYNDICOOP
- Poverty Reduction among Unprotected Informal Economy Workers through
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Microfinance in Africa: Rethinking the role of the actors (2006)
Is microfinance the right tool to unlock the potentials of the African poor people? This paper presents the trends in African Microfinance movement and the future course of action. The paper recommends: Classifying MFIs by objectives to understand...Contributor: Carmen V. Caballero, Published date 29 Jun , 2007
Increasing Microfinance Outreach and Effectiveness in Africa
Can country level networks help translate microfinance vision into reality? This conference report highlights the objectives of African Microfinance Network (AFMIN) in the overall financial economic environment. The paper elaborates on various events...Contributor : Carmen V. Caballero, Published date 29 Jun , 2007
Lessons Learned from Abolishing School Fees in Africa
As an instrument for the achievement of the Education for All (EFA) objectives, the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI) strives to accelerate progress towards universal quality education for all by supporting policies that will help remove cost...Contributor Chijioke Evoh, Published date 27 Jun , 2007
Report from South African Department of Health
Jun 25, 2007. Kaiser Daily HIV Reports. "National HIV and Syphilis Prevalence Survey, South Africa, 2006," Department of Health, South Africa: This new report, based on antenatal surveys conducted in all nine provinces in South Africa, finds national...Contributor: Anuradha Bhattacharjee le 25 Jun , 2007
DGRV/ILO/ICA Regional Conference: Co-operating Out Of Poverty, 05-19 February 2006, Pretoria, South Africa
Regional Conference Programme
The group work
A report on the conference (in German)
Americas
Poverty Campaign activities in Americas (pdf)
Asia-Pacific
Estimating the Net Effects of Migration and Remittances on Poverty and Inequality: Comparison of Fiji and Tonga
We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on income distribution and measures of poverty, after controlling for selectivity in migration and endogeneity in the relationship...Contributor: Adam Swallow, Published date 28 Jun , 2007
Poverty Campaign activities in Asia-Pacific (pdf)
Report of the first Asian International Co-operative Housing Conference on Poverty and Slums, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 2006
ICA Asia Pacific Conference on Poverty Alleviation Through Co-operatives: Hanoi, Vietnam, 22-24 March 2006
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