The Cooperator News

City mayor lauds UWEP beneficiaries for good performance in last financial year

LIRA – Lira City mayor Sam Atul has commended the beneficiaries of Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme [UWEP] in the city for paying back most of the money in the financial year 2022/2023.…

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Lira cooperative promoting production of oil seeds

LIRA – The Erute North County Oil Seed Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited in Lira district has pledged to continue promoting the production and multiplication of oil seeds as well as value addition.…

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CBS PEWOSA SACCOs empower community growth and economic inclusion in Buganda: Part 2

 Read Part 1 here. H. Mulindwa Wamala PEWOSA in Buganda  Buganda Kingdom has embraced the co- operative model, through the popular PEWOSA, now a household name among lower end income communities. PEWOSA…

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Bunyoro farmers irked as fake agro-inputs flood market

HOIMA – As the second planting season of the year kicks in, farmers in Bunyoro Sub-region have appealed to the government to intervene and get rid of the fake agro-inputs on the…

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GWLN 2023 Empowerment Grant winners to increase financial access worldwide

MADISON, Wis —Global Women’s Leadership Network [GWLN] recently announced its 2023 Empowerment Grant winners — Enkhchimeg Nergui, Partnership Specialist, Mongolian National Confederation of Credit Unions, and Violet Ndungu, CEO, Muki SACCO [Kenya]. The two will…

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Spain reign as Women’s World Cup goes beyond greatness

WELLIGTON – Slogans can often be empty but, in ‘Beyond Greatness’, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ found both a mission statement and a fitting epitaph. France 2019 had, after all, been…

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Medics warned against extortion

MBARARA – Dr. Deus Twesigye, a senior consultant general surgeon at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital has asked newly deployed medical interns to avoid the bad habit of extorting money from patients. Speaking…

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NTBs and national protection impeding intra-EAC trade, says official

ARUSHA – Non-tariff Barriers [ NTBs ] and protectionism at the national level have been identified as the key factors impeding the growth of intra-EAC trade. The East African Community [EAC] Secretary…

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Gov’t to support cooperatives with processing facilities

LIRA – The government has a medium-term plan to support cooperative societies in Lango and Acholi sub-regions with processing facilities, Dr. Charles Aben, a top official at the National Agricultural Advisory Services…

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Gov’t buys Shs 759mln sunflower seeds for farmers’ cooperatives in Lango

LIRA – Government through the National Agricultural Advisory Services Secretariat [NAADS] has bought 10,119 kilogrammes of sunflower seeds worth about Shs 759 million for farmers in the selected cooperative societies in Lango…

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