Cooperatives & Communities
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UWA Rewards Ex-Poachers with Domestic Animals
Kasese: Uganda Wild Life Authority has embarked on rewarding residents in wildlife conservation areas who denounced poaching, with domestic animals as a way of incentivizing even more people to abandon the practice.…
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Sembabule Youths Look to Value-Addition to Minimize Cost of Low Milk Prices
Youth in Sembabule District have embarked on a value-addition campaign to compensate for the decline in the price of milk, the main income earner for most cattle farmers in the district. Like…
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Museveni donates shs.100 Million to Gulu University Staff SACCO
President Yoweri Museveni has committed shs.100 million as a contribution towards supporting Gulu University Staff Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACC0), urging the lecturers to diversify their sources of income through entrepreneurship.…
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Government to Invest Shs.100billion in the New ‘Emyooga’ Fund
President Museveni has announced that his government will set aside shs.100 billion to finance cooperators involved in sector-specific, low-skill areas of the economy, like boda boda cyclists, carpenters, saloon operators, taxi drivers…
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Bushenyi Residents Launch Pressure Group to Hold Leaders Accountable
BUSHENYI: Residents of Bushenyi District in Western Uganda have pledged to ensure that their local leaders are more accountable, by forming a pressure group designed to scrutinize Local Government performance at all…
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Kasese Welders urged to Form Cooperative to Guarantee Quality Work
KASESE: Welders in Kasese have been warned to come together to monitor and ascertain the quality of work of all their colleagues, as a way of insuring their work from being infiltrated…
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Wazalendo to conduct an impact audit on its Shs.890 billion loans
Kampala, Uganda: The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces Savings and credit scheme – Wazalendo has announced it is going to embark on an impact assessment of all loans given out to its members…
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Bugisu Cooperative Union to Launch SACCO to Support Member Farmers
Bugisu Cooperative Union(BCU) has pledged to have a member Savings and Credit Cooperative(SACCO) in operation by March 2020, to revitalize the union’s operations and improve the overall wellbeing of member farmers. Johny…
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How a German Town is Cooperating to Solve its Energy Needs
A small town in the center of Germany has given the world a model for how to generate power on their terms. It all started back in 2005 in Wolfhagen, Germany when…
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Minister Gume Calls for More Accountability Among Cooperatives
State Minister for Cooperatives Fredrick Ngobi Gume has condemned persistent cases of fraud in cooperatives, arguing that they are undermining the country’s efforts towards cooperatives development. Speaking at Wakiso District’s annual awards…
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