Cooperative Resilience and Equity Activity (CORE)
Cooperative Development Organisation
Implementing Partners and Organisations
Cooperative College of Zambia (CCZ)
Period of Implementation
Geographic scope
Africa: Rwanda, Zambia
Budget
Donor(s)
Bilateral Aid: USAID
Sector(s)
Type of Activity
Summary
The Cooperative Resilience and Equity Activity (CORE) will foster sustainable cooperative systems in Rwanda and Zambia, in which self-managed cooperatives and their members flourish economically and socially. CORE will take a localized and market-responsive approach, engaging market actors, including women and youth. CORE will:
- Inclusively strengthen the capacity of cooperatives by responding to their unique challenges and market opportunities by adapting existing, tested tools.
- Improve the cooperative enabling environment by working with private and public service providers to deliver market-responsive and well-coordinated services to cooperatives.
- Spur innovation, learning and continuous improvement in the local and global development community through embedded applied research.
CORE will support over 160 dairy, horticulture and oilseed cooperatives (40 directly and 120 indirectly) and 12,000 members in partnership with local market actors, resulting in a 30 percent increase in cooperative sales.
Project Objectives
CORE will foster sustainable cooperatives in Rwanda and Zambia, where cooperatives and members flourish economically and socially.
Impact on SDGs
Main Indicators
2. Perceived value score of member's services for primary cooperatives
3. Average capacity score of cooperative services organizations
4. Dollar ($) value of income and/or services delivered to members by cooperatives and credit unions
5. Number of organizations using CDP-developed tools and resources to benefit cooperatives and cooperative systems
Impact Measurement
Direct beneficiaries
Organisations: 42