Rwanda
Rwanda
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DevelopmentRwandan president launches Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa
Africa has taken its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals a step further by launching an SDG centre for the continent. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda officially launched the centre at an international conference in...
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![A farmer in a maize field in Nyagatare, in Rwanda's Eastern Province [photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT) / Flickr]](https://www.thenews.coop/wp-content/uploads/rwanda-maize-neil-palmer-CIAT-flickr-480x320.jpg)
Rwanda’s co-op sector hires external auditors to tackle managment issues and embezzlement
External auditors and contracted staff are being brought in to Rwanda’s co-operatives to tackle embezzlement and improve management. The plans were announced by the Rwanda Cooperative Agency (RCA) in a bid to ensure more accountability and efficiency...
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![In the wake of the 1994 genocide, women survivors in Rwanda are forming co-operatives to help to rebuild the country [photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT) / Flickr]](https://www.thenews.coop/wp-content/uploads/banana-rwanda-neil-palmer-CIAT-flickr-480x320.jpg)
AgricultureWomen-led co-ops in Rwanda help to rebuild the country
Craftswomen and farmers in Rwanda are turning to co-operatives to help increase empowerment, food security and equality in the country. In the Musanze District to the north of the country, a support scheme launched by the Faith...
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DevelopmentCo-operatives and peace: Sri Lanka and Rwanda
In Sri Lanka a dairy co-operative development project joined farmers from different ethnicities including Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. Due to the civil war, many farmers had been displaced and needed help to raise themselves out...
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AgricultureTwo decades from the genocide, Rwanda aims to co-operate for a better future
Twenty years on from 100 days of genocide in Rwanda, co-operatives have been seen as a means to build a sustainable future for its people. The genocide had a devastating economic and social impact on...
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DemocracyCo-operative growth in Africa
One of the four regions of ICA—one with great promise—is the African continent. Since 1984 ICA has been convening a triennial Co-operative Ministerial Conference, bringing together ministers responsible for co-operative development. At the last Ministerial...
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Regional OrganisationsCo-operative Awards winner: Shared Interest
For the past 20 years Shared Interest Society has been providing loan finance to farmers and handicraft producers in the developing world — from coffee growers in Peru to soapstone producers in Kenya.
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Democracy
How co-operatives can change the world
THE theme of International Co-operatives Day this year was peace. Legacoop, the National Federation of Co-operatives in Italy, organised an international conference in Rome on the theme "Co-operative work giving hope in lands of conflict"....