We had a successful monthly supervision and pilot testing of supervision tools for of 5 non-deposit taking SACCOs in Narok North Sub-County, Narok County namely Yamua SACCO, Health Partners SACCO, Narok Fleet Transporters SACCO, Nafugo SACCO and Golden Chance SACCO. The cooperative officers and SACCOs visited in Narok North Sub-county appreciated the quality of the tools…
The Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development in Kenya and German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development are implementing a project in Kenya namely: Promoting Co-operative Structures in East Africa as a Contribution to Strengthening Rural Regions. In Kenya, the specific project interventions are implemented by German Kenyan Cooperative…
An Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a mandatory yearly gathering of an organization’s interested shareholders. As required by law, Annual General Meeting is a mandatory yearly gathering of any Cooperative’s shareholders. It is the governing meeting of the Cooperative which brings members and directors together to share reports of the previous year, financial statements, make…
Our partner Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative (KYSC), is a youth cooperative society that is finding innovative ways of doing business in the local Coffee Industry. Its’ main objective is to promote its members through economic participation. The background of these youth, is in the Coffee industry, and they are planning to implement businesses which are…
Successful entrepreneurs improve lives by creating innovative products or services to enhance the standard of living. In addition to their products and services, entrepreneurs create opportunities through jobs and tax remittance for our economy to grow and prosper. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) census data, the rate of unemployment amongst the…
The Kipkelion Youth Service Co-operative Society Ltd (KYSC) is designated to bring youth into sustainable business. KYSC’s members originate from a coffee growing area and they dream of launching their own coffee shop start-up. Over a period of about 6 months, they worked hard to tweak their business concept: A Coffee TukTuk and a Coffeehouse!…
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In order to break into the complex local and international markets, Kenyan are increasingly finding out that forming or joining co-operatives helps them grow their incomes. This is because of the strength in numbers that teamwork brings hence sustainably improving the lives by transforming the market systems. For both Kakamega and Narok CETICs, being the…
Young people are highly energized and eager to take advantage of the opportunity to serve their community as they generate income to sustains themselves. Kipkelion youth are not an exception as they came together to have a vehicle that will enable them harness the available resources and make use of opportunities available, in order to…
Strategic planning is critical to any co-operative success; it gives the organization an opportunity to develop its strategic thinking, decision-making and planning skills in order to provide overall direction to the co-operative on how the set goals will be achieved. DGRV/GKCD in partnership with Narok CETIC, Kakamega CETIC and the newly formed Kipkelion Youth Service…