21st of March 2024, was a special day for us as GKCD/ DGRV Kenya; the ‘Opening Event” of our new project phase 2024-2026. It was a motivating exchange platform for our project partners and us, to channel development conversations with the Presidential Economic Transformation Secretariat, the State Department for Co-operatives, the County Governments of Nyeri,…
Through the partnership between Kipkelion Youth Service Co-operative Society Ltd (KYSC) and DGRV/GKCD, KYSC as a cooperative has witnessed noticeable growth in its management, leadership, operation as well as plans towards sustainability. In addition, the partnership fostered with GESTE Foundation saw KYSC start up and operate its popular brand KYSC CoffeeTuk business in Kericho. The…
GESTE Foundation and DGRV are both organizations promoting international development cooperation. GESTE financially supported our partner organization Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative Society (KYSC) at the beginning of this year 2023, with the aim of supporting the economic activities of the co-operative. The funds financed the establishment of a CoffeeTuk Business and will go a long…
DGRV/GKCD conducted a successful workshop on defining of a specialized training for Co-operative Auditors on 15th September 2023 at the Heron Hotel, Nairobi. The workshop was attended by 17 representatives from 11 keys stakeholders: The Cooperative Alliance of Kenya, The Co-operative Bank, CIC Group, NCBA CLUSA, National Co-operative Housing Union (NACHU), The Co-operative University of…
The long-awaited day finally arrived and our partners, Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative (KYSC) Limited launched the KYSC CoffeeTuk Business on Thursday, 28th September 2023 in Kericho. KYSC is the first and so far only service co-operative in Kenya that runs a coffee shop. The CoffeeTuk is a fun location offering coffee, snacks, and daily changing…
DGRV/GKCD had a successful workshop on NDT SACCO Supervision (not regulated by SASRA) and Audit Curricular at the Heron Hotel, Nairobi. The stakeholders present included State Department of Cooperatives, KUSCCO, SASRA, NACHU, CAK, CUK, Golden Chance SACCO, Narok Central SACCO, Health Partners SACCO, Cooperative Department from Nairobi County and Narok County, CIC SACCO among others.…
Our partner, Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative (KYSC), is a youth cooperative society that is finding innovative ways of doing business in the local hospitality Industry. Its main objective is to promote its members through economic participation. The background of these youth is in the Coffee growing areas and they are planning to implement businesses which…
Our partners, Kipkelion Youth Service Co-operatives (KYSC) task force team alongside the DGRV/GKCD team undertook the Coffee Tuktuk Business Plan review in Nairobi at the DGRV/GRKCD offices to establish how far they have gone as well as plan for upcoming activities like branding, launch, videography among others. Thereafter, they paid a visit to Quantum Investments…
SACCOs in Kenya plays critical role in mobilizing savings from the members. At the same time, these SACCOs offer loans to members at competitive interest rates in the background of other more favorable terms and conditions. Hence, deposits and loans portfolios have been growing into millions of Kenya shillings on daily basis. With such huge…
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!…
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…
Kipkelion District Co-operative Union Youth Council (KYC) sprouted when a group of well-established local youth representatives within Fort Ternan, Kipkelion in Kericho County, came together to register a community based organization on the 6th September, 2018. With an aim of promoting the interests of the members, and supporting the welfare and overall economic development of…
The cooperative industry also has suffered from COVID-19 and we as DGRV/GKCD have been working on a game plan to enhance and ensure that cooperators at home are equipped with the latest information regardless of the situation. Together with our partners Narok CETIC we teamed up and came up with a strategy on how to…
A distinct management feature of Co-operative enterprises is the element of self-control. In Kenya, Co-operatives elect Supervisory Committees during their Annual General Meetings. These impartial groups made up of 3 elected members are answerable directly to the membership of the Co-operative. Help protecting the member’s assets through overseeing the management of the Co-operative is the…
While the new year is still young, we are happy to continue with our field work. Field days are great for us as we use these physical get-together with our project partners to coach, train and advise along practical examples. Our January 2021 field visits at CETIC Kakamega, CETIC Narok and Kipkelion Youth (KYC) Council were mainly…
DGRV Kenya / GKCD is pleased to be trusted with the implementation of another BMZ funded project phase in Kenya for the duration 2021 – 2023. We thank our project partners who worked with us from 2017 – 2020 and will continue working with us in the new project. Together we shall continue to…
Preparing a new generation of co-operators for their important role in the sustainability of the Kenyan Co-operative sector is one of our major projects concerns. In this regard, GKCD/DGRV Kenya and the Kipkelion District Co-operative Union Youth Council (KYC) partner to strategically develop the capacities of young people in Kipkelion District. This partnership aims to…
DGRV e.V. is proud to announce another new milestone in the era of modern Co-operative learning in Kenya! We are launching the “Co-op Basics Online Course” – a teaching app which enables Co-operators nationwide to enhance their Co-operative know-how anywhere anytime from their smartphones. The “Co-op Basics Online Course” contains 6 different learning sessions which are geared…
Globally, and Kenya in particular, learning has been negatively impacted by COVID-19 .In response to the rise of corona virus cases in Kenya ,the government of Kenya temporarily closed all schools in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Right now, the COVID-19 pandemic is hugely on the rise and expected to…
From February 3rd – February 7th 2020 the extended CETIC family (CETIC, Co-operative Education Training and Information Center) came together to discuss and resolute on new solutions for the CETIC Centers. The CETIC Leadership Retreat 2020‘ was held at Sentrim Lodge Elementaita hosted by DGRV/GKCD and attended by CETIC stakeholders from the Co-operative sector of…
GKCD is an NGO which is fully supported by the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation, the apex and auditing association of the German Cooperative Organizations and BMZ. The NGO’s mandate is to empower the co-operative sector in Narok and Kakamega County through the establishment of Co-operative Education, Training and Information Centers (CETICs) at County level.…
