“If we are a continent of 1,3 billion Africans, …it doesn’t matter how many congresses we have, it doesn’t matter how many people attend our congresses, even if we were to bring 2000 to fill this hall, but if you cannot (go back and) share the message, if we cannot make people appreciate the value...
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Best Practice in the development of cooperatives
By Helmut Pabst, DGRV, German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation Introduction This article came from Brian Gately and was shared among SACCO Development Educators in September 2017. Permission was granted by the author to re-publish it in The SACCONSTELLATION, a SACCO magazine DE project for Southern Africa. From: Brian Gately To: [SACCO] Development Educators Listserv Date: Sun, 3 Sep...
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Quotation – Tell the Credit Union story
Go and tell the Credit Union story – the SACCO value proposition. Arm yourself with this story, 110 million Americans are Credit Union members – what a big story to tell. Members are the main advocates, they should tell what Credit Unions have done for them. W e e x i s t f o...
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Competitive Edge through Cooperation: The Financial Cooperative System in Germany
As an individual, one is a nobody in today’s competitive economy, but grouped together in a cooperative effort there is a chance to be successful… Mr. Ludwig Ehard is the DGRV’s Director Regional Program – Africa, he delivered an appropriately titled presentation that provided an enlightened perspective on the competitiveness of cooperation, especially as it...
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Leveraging on Technology to Expand Financial Inclusion and Growth | A SACCOs’ perspective
Mr. Polycup Osero, the Fintech Group’s Head of sales and marketing flew all the way from Kenya to Zimbabwe in November 2016 to grace the occasion of The Harare SACCOs Multi-Stakeholder Conference where he delivered a keynote presentation entitled: Leveraging on Technology to Expand Financial Inclusion: A SACCOs’ perspective. Mr. Osero showed the audience that...
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Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) Education
I met Mr. Robert Kofi Ngissah (who had come all the way from Ghana to Kenya) at Diani Beach Resort in Kwale County – Mombasa in February 2017. We were both in the Credit Unions Development Educators class of 2017, simply known as DE class of 2017 in short. We had been drawn to Kenya...
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SACCOs in the National Financial Inclusion Strategy of Zimbabwe | A perspective of The Reserve Bank Of Zimbabwe
Mr. Simbarashe Mashonganyika from The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was one of the keynote speakers at the 1st Harare SACCOs Multi-Stakeholder Conference held at the Management Training Bureau in November 2016. Mr. Mashonganyika highlighted that one of the prerequisite of sustainable economic development was ACCESS to appropriate financial services and that was the main thrust...