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Agriculture and Natural Resources
Working
Together: The Role of External Agents in the Development of Agriculture-Based
Industries
By, Andrea Harris, Murray Fulton, Brenda Stefanson and Don Lysyshyn
Click
here to read.
China's
agricultural and rural development in the early 21st century
Author(s): Bernard H Sonntag, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and John H Skerritt
This book discusses several of the key agricultural and rural development
policy issues faced by China in the first years of the 21st century, including
cooperatives. Available on the website in .pdf files or for purchase.
Click here
to view.
Rural
Group Enterprises and Agricultural Marketing in Angola
Project Implemented by Cooperative League of The USA (CLUSA, aka NCBA),
MID-TERM EVALUATION REPORT
Funded by, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Submitted by: Elsa Mapilele, Gomes Cambuta, Jerry Brown
September 2004
Click
here to view.
Afghanistan
Cooperatives
Since
1963, Afghanistan developed some 2,500 cooperatives by the 1980s with
support from the FAO and ILO, but they were destroyed by both the communists
and Taliban when they came to power. The enclosed study is a mission report
and finding from an investigation of emerging cooperatives in the Parwan
province. It is indicates that there are about 170 active and newly established
cooperatives in Afghanistan. The Chemonics assessment team met with 10
agricultural coops, and reviewed their management structures in determining
that they were democratic and member-owned. Their conclusions are that
the ministry is well set up to support cooperatives; the coops have good
accounting systems; they are improving farm income; and coops may be a
good vehicle in promoting licit production and reducing poppy cultivation.
To read the
document, click
here.
Report
on Artisanal Mining Cooperatives Training Program
By Management Systems International for USAID
August 2004
Click
here to read.
New Strategies
for Mobilizing Capital in Agricultural Cooperatives
By the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Click
here to read Part 1.
Click
here to read Part 2.
ALBANIA: QABI - A tool to support Private Farmers Associations in Southern
Albania
by
José de la Cotera / Stoas International
Click
here to read.
Michael
Cook Publications
For publications by one of the lead agricultural economists, click
here.
Bank
for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), Thailand
(Case Study)
by Delbert Fitchett, Eschborn 1999
Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) Working Group on Savings Mobilization
Click
here to read.
Linking with Dairy Co-ops
for Large-Scale Community-Based Service Delivery, India
CEDPA, January 2003
Click
here to read.
Rural Finance
Assessment Part I: Agriculture Processors and Cooperatives in Afghanistan
December 2003, USAID RAMP Program
Click
here to read.
Market
Improvements and New Food Crop Technologies in the Sahel
Impact of Technology and Marketing Strategies on Farmers’ Incomes
Progress Report 1; Production and Marketing Strategies Concept Paper
1;
Food Processing and Marketing Concept Paper 2
December 2003
By, Dr. Botorou Ouendeba
Click
here to read the paper.
Community-Based
Producer Organizations: A Contribution to the West Africa Regional Program
Action Plan for the Initiative to End Hunger in Africa
Agricultural Policy Development Program by Abt Associates, Inc.
March 2003
Click
here to read the paper.
Making
Co-Ownership Work: Helping Land Reform Beneficiaries Access Land and Financial
Resources through Equity Sharing in South Africa
Basis Brief by the Collaborative Research Support Program, Number 20,
May 2004
Click
here to read.
Computerization
of Agriculture Cooperatives and Emerging Producer Associations in Kenya
Project by the Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations
Click
here to read the program information.
Click
here to read the progress report.
STATE-OWNED
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS:
LESSONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MICROFINANCE
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Douglas
H. Graham
Click
here for PDF File
Project
Summary: Computerization of agricultural co-operatives and emerging producer
associations in Kenya
Click
her for Word File
Draft:
Experiences in computerising agricultural/rural cooperatives in Latin
America: problems encountered and lessons learned.”By Mr. John Rouse
(SDAR)
The author
will prepare an issues paper reviewing experiences in computerising agricultural
and other rural cooperatives in Latin America.
Click
here for Word File
USDA Cooperative
Information Report 60 Agricultural Cooperatives in the 21st Century
By Randall E. Torgerson, November 2002
Click
here for PDF File
USDA
RBS Research Report 194: Black Farmers in America, 1865-2000 The Pursuit
of Independent Farming and the Role of Cooperatives
By Bruce J. Reynolds, October 2002
Click
here for PDF File
USDA
RBS Research Report 192: Problems and Issues Facing Farmer Cooperatives
By Thomas
W. Gray, PhD and Charles A. Kraenzle, PhD September 2002
Click
here for PDF File
Improving
the Access of SmallHolders to Agricultural Services in Sub-Saharna Africa:
Farmer Cooperation and the Role of the Donor Community: ODI Natural Resource
Perspectives # 20
By,
Rachel Stringfellow, Jonathan Coulter, Trevor Lucey, Colin McKone and
Ambereene Hussain.
http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/20.html
Strategic Alliances:
Cooperatives, farmers´ and rural workers´ organizations
A COPAC Commissioned Study
http://www.copacgva.org/strategic-alliances.pdf
BACK
TO BREAD AND BUTTER BASICS: Agriculture and Cooperative Aid in Developing
Countries
Applying Lessons Learned to the 21st Century
by, Lisa Novacek
click here for
full article
New York Economic
Handbook
The New York Economic Handbook is distributed during the Agribusiness
Economic Outlook Conference, sponsored every December by the Department
of Applied Economics and Management.
Topics include: Economic Situation Resources, Marketing Costs, Cooperatives,
Finance, Grain and Feed, Livestock, Dairy—Markets and Policy, Dairy—Farm
Management, Fruit, Vegetables, Ornamentals
http://aem.cornell.edu/outreach/materials.htm
Australian
Co-operative Links -Agricultural co-operatives
http://www.coopdevelopment.org.au/aglinks.html
The most common form of agricultural co-operative in Australia is the
marketing co-operative . A marketing co-operative is an enterprise owned
by primary producers to assist them produce and process products to market
specification, thereby maximising the value of their products as it moves
down the supply chain to the consumer. Marketing co-operatives cover functions
beyond the farm gate such as transport, grading, packing, storage, promotion,
wholesaling, processing, distribution and exporting.
Cooperative
Models and Farm Policy Reform
On March 22nd, 2001, Mr. Onno-Frank van Bekkum has defended his PhD thesis
entitled "Cooperative Models and Farm Policy Reform: Exploring Patterns
in Structure-Strategy Matches of Dairy Cooperatives in Regulated vs. Liberalized
Markets". The thesis has subsequently been published as a book (245
pages) by Van Gorcum academic publishers.
For more information & to order a copy, click
here.
Finance and Microfinance
Evaluation
of IFAD Armenia Project
In
the draft Independent External Evaluation of IFAD (November 2004), the
evaluators found that "IFAD was underperforming" with two thirds
of projects rated as satisfactory and half suffering major implementation
problems. A notable example of good performance is the Agriculture Cooperative
Bank of Amenia (ACBA). "After initial start-up problems, ACBA is
now the third largest (and only cooperative) bank in the country, plus
the main lender in rural areas - where previously the banking sector had
focused on low risk, high return borrowers from the main city. A more
detailed analysis of ACBA is on pages 14 to 19 of the final evaluation
report.
Click
here to read.
Success
in Rural Savings: How one Donor Led the Way
By, Ruth Goodwin-Groen, CGAP
A Case Study of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Collaboration
with the Bank for Agricultural Cooperatives in Thailand
Click here to
read.
Guarantee
Funds
At a seminar in 2001, BRS brought the various parties around the table
to discuss the sticking points that can make it difficult to turn guarantee
funds into a success. This publication is the outcome of the seminar.
Cera Foundation, ‘Horizons’ series Available in Dutch, French
and English at http://www.brs-vzw.be/en/index.html.
Click
here to view the document.
Rural
Finance
By, Kyle Amossen, AgroInvest, Serbia and Montenegro and J. Michael Harvey,
ACDI/VOCA, Russia
Presentation to MFC Annual Conference, May 28, 2004
Click
here to read the PowerPoint presentation.
Rural
Microfinance through Credit Cooperative System: The Russian Experience
By, Michael Harvey and Vladimir Pakhomov, ACDI/VOCA
To read the PowerPoint presentation, click
here.
Paving the Way Forward for Rural Finance: An International Conference on Best Practices, found at http://www.basis.wisc.edu/rfc/
- Conference
Proceedings
Click here for PDF File - Credit
Union Empowerment and Strengthening (CUES) Philippines By
Luis Sasuman (World Council of Credit Unions, Inc.)
Click here for PDF File - Response
Required: Mitigating Risk in African Credit Unions Serving HIV/AIDS-affected
Communities
By: Anna Cora Evans (World Council of Credit Unions, Inc)
Click here for PDF File - Adapting
to the Challenges of Changing Financial Paradigms
WOCCU’s Savings Mobilization Programs in Latin America
By Janette Klaehn (World Council of Credit Unions, Inc)
Click here for PDF File - CECAM:
A CooperativeAgricultural Financial Institution Provding Credit Adapted
to Farmers' Demand in Madagascar
By Jean- Hervé Fraslin- ICAR
Click here for PDF File - CLUSA
Zambia Rural Group Business Program
By Susan Parker USAID and WOCCU
Click here for PDF File
CLUSA
Credit Intermediation Successful in Maritime Guinea
This article also highlights the importance of good governance.
To read the technical article
go to http://www.usaid.gov/gn/democracy/news/031222_clusa_ics/technicalarticle.htm
To read the lessons learned, go to http://www.usaid.gov/gn/democracy/news/031222_clusa_ics/lessonslearned.htm
MEASURING
MICROCREDIT DELINQUENCY: Ratios Can Be Harmful to Your Health.
Click here
for file
Proposal
for a Networked Research Programme on
Microfinance Institutions
A Draft Proposal for Research Submitted to: The Sir Ratan Tata Trust Mumbai
Click
here for file
Sustainability
of Microfinance Self Help Groups in India: Would Federating Help?
By Ajai Nair
Click
here for PDF File
A
Comparative Analysis Of Member-Based Microfinance
Institutions In East And West Africa
Research Team: Renée Chao-Béroff (CIDR) Thi Hanh Houmard
Cao, Jean Pierre Vandenbroucke, Muli Musinga,Edith Tiaro ,Leonard Mutesasira,
March 2000
Click
here for Word File
Click here for PDF File
Financial
Analysis and Planning for Directors
By US National Bank of Cooperatives
Click
here for PDF File
A SYMPOSIUM
ON SAVINGS LED MICROFINANCE AND THE RURAL POOR
By Jeffrey Ashe Visiting Scholar Institute for Sustainable Development
Heller School Brandeis University
Click
here for Word File
Click
here for PDF File
Start-Ups
Agrocapital & Bai Tushum: Lessons from 2 Rural Financial Service Foundations
By: Robert Fries (ACDI/VOCA)
Click
here for PDF File
Experience
on Financial Behavior Modification in The Savings and Loan Sector of Costa
Rica ( April 1990- December 1992)
Written
by Jose Linares Fontela, Psychologist in EADA Escuela de Alta Dirección
y Adminstración.
Click
here for full study in MS Word. (Spanish
Version Click here)
Click
here for full study in PDF.
Development
of the Image and Savings Promotion in The Credit Unions of Costa Rica
(May 1992-December 1994)
Written by Jose Linares Fontela, Psychologist in EADA Escuela
de Alta Diección y Adminstración.
Click
here for full study in MS Word.
Click
here for full study in PDF.
Bridging
the Gap: Cooperative Development Organizations and Private and Voluntary
Organizations in Microfinance
USAID's Office of Private Voluntary Cooperation completed this study of
microfinance activities of CDOs and PVOs.
Click here for .pdf file
Freedom from
Hunger website
http://www.ffhtechnical.org/
Information about microfinance,
nonformal education, nutrition, maternal and child healht, and womens
empowerment as a result of Credit with Education program. They provide
programmatic descriptions of our integrated poverty-lending and education
methodology, as well as access to our research papers, how-to manuals,
nonformal health/nutrition/population/business curricula, online resources,
and other technical information about Freedom from Hunger's work.
The Global
Development Research Center
The Virtual Library on Microcredit
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/index.html
This website
has links to information on microfinance, microcredit, women, governance,
capacity building, microenterprises, policy and practice, etc.
New Product
Development for Microfinance: Evaluation and Preparation
by Monica Brand ACCION International, September 1998
click here for PDF
file OR http://www.usaidmicro.org/pubs/mbp-res.asp#npm
New Product Development for Microfinance: Design, Testing, and Launch
(Part 2)
Monica Brand, ACCION International, September 1998
click here
for PDF file OR http://www.usaidmicro.org/pubs/mbp-res.asp#npm
Village Banks,
Caisses Villageoises, and Credit Unions: Lessons from Client-Owned Microfinance
Organizations in West Africa
by Korotoumou Ouattara, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, and Douglas H. Graham.
Microenterprise Best Practices; Development Alternatives, Inc. December
1999.
http://www.mip.org/pubs/mbp/village_banks_caisses_villageoises.htm
A Primary Cooperative Members Credit
By Zahari Zakaria
March 20th, 2000 http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/microfin/Papers/PDFs/ZAK.pdf
Comparative
Analysis of Member-Based MFIs in West and East Africa
By Rene Chao-Beroff
Compares user-owned or ''common-bond''
MFIs in West and East Africa with special emphasis on the savings services
they provide. The Caisses Mutuel and the Caisses Villegoises of West Africa
are recognised internationally as successful MFIs operating in some of
the most difficult environments. In addition, many of these West African
MFIs have been delivering savings services to their clients as an integral
part of their systems. At the same time, the vast majority of financial
services for the poor in East Africa are provided by Savings and Credit
Co-operatives (SACCOs) or Credit Unions, but the work, capabilities, strengths
and weaknesses of these remains largely unexplored and poorly documented.
Click
here for Word File.
Click
here for .pdf file.
The Microfinance
Gateway - a CGAP Resource
The Microfinance Gateway is a public forum for the microfinance industry
at large that offers a wealth of tailored services for microfinance professionals,
including resource centers on specific topics in microfinance, a searchable
library of electronic documents, a consultant database, a jobs listing
service, and specialized discussion groups.
Go to http://www.microfinancegateway.org/
Bridging
the Gap: Cooperative Development Organizations and Private Voluntary Organizations
in Microfinance
By Larry Frankel,
Jeff Ashe, and Gloria Almeyda
Click
here for PDF File.
Ugandan
rural savings & credit co-operative societies (SACCOs) network : SACCO-Net
-- final report
Dec 2003, Final Contractor/Grantee Report
Institution: World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU)
DocID/Order No: PD-ABZ-626
Cost (in Paper): $29.90
Preview
Click
here for
more information on cooperative finance.
microLINKS
the knowledge sharing resource for the Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement
Project of USAID’s Microenterprise Development office. This website
has documents on microenterprise in development countries. Some documents
are about coops and credit unions.
Click here to view.
Credit Unions
Revised
Final Report: SAVINGS AND CREDIT COOPERATIVES AND UNION FORMATION AND
DEVELOPMENT FOR OROMIA AND SNNP REGIONS IN ETHIOPIA
C conducted by Dennis L. Sharpe, Ph.D. for Agricultural Cooperative Development
International/Volunteers In Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA)
Click here to read.
Mainstreaming
Financial Services to Include the Poor: The Credit Union Perspective
by Anna Cora Evans and Janette Klaehn, World Council of Credit Unions
December 2004
Click here
to read.
Success
Story of the Polish Credit Union Movement: How to Reach a Million Members
in 12 Years
Presentation by Grzegorz Beirecki
Click
here to read.
FEDERATION
OF THE AGRICULTURAL SAVINGS AND CREDIT UNIONS, BENIN (CASE STUDY)
Christine Eschborn, 1999.
Click here for file...
Metro
Credit Social Audit Report
Click
here for file...
1998-99
VanCity's Social Report
Click
here to read...
Credit
Union Development in Ukraine: Options and Strategies for USAID/Kiev
By John H. Magill Colleen E. Green
Click here for file...
Development
of the Image and Savings Promotion in the Credit Unions of Costa Rica
By, Jose LInareas Fontela, EADA
Click
here for file.
Experience
on Financial Behavior Modification in the Savings and Loan Sector of Costa
Rica (April 1990-December 1992)
By Jose Linares Fontela, EADA
Click
here for file.
Public Policy and Advocacy
ESCAPING
POVERTY AND BECOMING POOR: WHO GAINS, WHO LOSES, AND WHY? Accounting for
Stability and Change in 35 North Indian Villages
By Anirudh Krishna* Sanford Institute of Public Policy Duke University
Click
here for PDF File
Telecommunications
COPAC
Open Forum "Cooperatives and Communication Technology": Background
Paper
1998
http://www.copacgva.org/background.htm
First International
Conference on Rural Telecommunications
Reports, Presentations and Speeches.
http://www.ntca.org/intlconf/report_main.html
Initial Lessons
Learned About Private Sector Participation In Telecentre Development
NTCA International Report
http://www.ntca.org/intl/report.html
INITIAL LESSONS
LEARNED ABOUT PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION IN TELECENTRE DEVELOPMENT:
Guide for Policy Makers in Developing Appropriate Regulatory Frameworks
National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, June, 2000
Click here for Word
File
Click here for PDF file
Community Development
Agricultural
Cooperatives in Ethiopia (ACE)- ACDI/VOCA
ACDI/VOCA Case Study
To
read, click here
Civil Society
Economic Democracy
in Practice: The Benefits of Cooperatives
by Aaron G. Lehmer,
Grassroots Globalization Network Working Paper Series Number - 1
http://www.earthisland.org/ggn/workingpaper1_toc.html
Insurance
Serviperu:
Peru
CGAP Working Paper on Microinsurance: Good and Bad Practices
Case Study No. 1
By, Maximo Rodriguez and Bernardo Miranda
January 2004
Click here to read.
Tuw Skok:
Poland
CGAP Working Paper on Microinsurance: Good and Bad Practices
Case Study No. 2
By, Craig Churchill and Terry Pepler
May 2004
Click here to read.
COLUMNA:
Guatemala
CGAP Working Paper on Microinsurance: Good and Bad Practices
Case Study No. 5
By, Carlos Herrera and Bernardo Miranda
December 2004
Click here to read.
MUSCCO:
Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives
CGAP Working Paper on Microinsurance: Good and Bad Practices
Case Study No. 8
By, Sven Enarsson and Kjell Wiren
March 2005
Click here to read.
Takaful
and Poverty Alleviation
by Sabir Patel, ICMIF
This study analyzes the possible role of Islamic Insurance (Takaful) to
assist poverty alleviation in Muslim communities. The paper looks at the
challenges facing the provision of insurance to the poor and demonstrates
how the cooperative/mutual Takaful structure is the most appropriate delivery
mechanism. In addition the study also provides some possible solutions
to increasing the accessibility to protection for the poor and the role
of donors, established Takafuls, and organisations such as ICMIF to facilitate
this.
Click here for PDF
File
USAID
MBP Virtual Conference on Microinsurance October 9-27, 2000
Click
here for Word File
Insurance and
Poverty Alleviation
by Sabbir Patel, January 2002
Click here for PDF
File
Click here for Word File
Health insurance
for informal sector: case study of Gujarat
by Gumber, Anil; Kulkarni, Veena, Economic and Political Weekly
(EPW), India, September 2000
http://www.coopnetupdate.org/biblio/pdf/0026.pdf
Providing
Insurance to Low-Income Households— Part I: A
Primer on Insurance Principles and Products
by Warren Brown and Craig Churchill, Microenterprise Best
Practices, Development Alternatives, Inc. November 1999
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here for file...
Insurance Provision
for Low-Income Communities: Part II—
Initial Lessons from Micro-Insurance Experiments for the Poor
by Warren Brown and Craig Churchill, Microenterprise Best Practices, Development
Alternatives, Inc. February 2000
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here for file...
A Cautionary
Note for Microfinance Institutions and Donors Considering Developing Microinsurance
Products
by Warren Brown, Colleen Green, and Gordon Lindquist.
Microenterprise Best Practices, Development Alternatives, Inc.
December 2000.
Click
here for PDF file or
http://www.mip.org/pubs/mbp/cautionary_note.htm
Insurance
Provisions in Low-Income Communities Part II: Initial Lessons from Micro-Insurance
Experiments for the Poor
Click
here for file...
The
Impact of Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Burkina Faso
Notebook 19 Pierre Larocque and Jean-Pierre Kalala, Consultants August
2002 Anne Gaboury, Senior Director Systems and Instrumentation, DID
Click
here for file...
Philippines
- Micro-Insurance for the Poor
Presentations at Sustainable Cooperation: Best Practices in International
Co-Operative Development conference
October 8-9, 2003, at http://www.bestpractices.coop/.
Click below to read presentations by:
Card
Mutual Benefit Association, Inc.: An Innovation in the Microfinance Industry
in the Philippines
By Jaime Aristotle B. Alip and Mr. Alex M. Dimaculangan
Click here
for file...
Insuring
Development: Through Popular Based Insurance
By
North American Assn. of the International Cooperative Insurance Federation
Click
here for PDF file.
Insuring
Microenterprise Loans: A primer for Micro-Finance Institutions
Click here
for English version of PDF file.
Click
here for Spanish version of PDF file.
Energy and Rural Electrification
Sustainable
Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: Is it Possible?In
March 2003, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
organized a two day international conference on rural electrification
in developing countries. A synopsis of the conference and presentations
on the role of cooperative in rural electrification is enclosed. The papers
include a summary of NRECA and the U.S. coop model as well as similar
cooperative systems in Bangladesh and The Philippines.
Click here to read.
Experiences
in Cooperative Rural Electrification and Implications for India-- Background
Paper By
NRECA International, Ltd. Submitted to Samuel TumiwaAsian Development
Bank Manila, Philippines
Click
here for Word File
Click
here for PDF File
Electric
Cooperatives in Bangladesh
The
socio-economic impact of rural electric cooperatives in Bangladesh was
recently completed by NRECA International, Ltd. Over 70 co-ops were envisioned
to cover the entire country. So far, 67 have been established and 57 of
these are operational. After two decades, around 20 million people in
rural areas now have access to electricity through the 3 million meters
that have been installed under the Program. The case study also displays
the need for less governmental control and a more “democratic”
and “participatory” role of the people. “Decision making”
and participation by the population in cooperatives is crucial, to avoid
governmental corruption or influence in the success of electrification
in Bangladesh. Electrification is now proceeding at the rate of 390,000
new connections annually - averaging more than 1,000 per day. The socio-economic
impacts include:
· Enhanced
productivity and output
· Increased employment opportunities
· Enhanced food production with irrigation
· Increased household incomes
· Expanded rural investment and industrialization
· Improved living standards and quality of life
· Increased literacy rate
· Enhanced awareness of women & children rights
· Improved information access through media
To view the Executive
Summary & Chpt 8 in MS Word, click
here.
To view in Adobe Acrobat Reader
PDF, click
here.
To
view full study by NRECA Ltd., click
here.
Break
Out Group on FInancing Rural Infrastructure and Electricity
with IFAD
Click
here for Word File
Click
here for PDF File
Rural Energy
and Development: Improving Energy Supplies for Two Billion People
Price: $ 22.00
English BC 132 pages
Published September 1996 by World Bank ISBN: 0-8213-3806-4 SKU: 13806
This report draws on the experience of experts in government, industry,
and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to find ways of combatting the
problems of the supply and demand for energy in rural areas of the developing
world. The report advocates the use of renewable technologies (solar power)
and improvements in the use of traditional fuels (wood and coal), rather
than reliance on electricity. It stresses the importance of community
participation.
Joint IFAD
and OCDC Workshop
In late October, the International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD) and the Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) put on
a workshop about Working through Cooperatives and Credit Unions to Reduce
Rural Poverty. This day and half workshop demonstrated how partnerships
between IFAD, cooperatives and credit unions can effectively contribute
to rural poverty alleviation.
Click here to read more...
Health
For HIV/AIDS information, click here.
HealthPartners
Uganda Health Cooperative: A Guide To Prepaid Health Care
HealthPartners created this manual as a step by step guide to introducing
prepaid health care concepts and plans to developing countries.
http://www.healthpartners.com/Menu/0,1598,17670,00.html
Click
here to read full paper in .pdf
Preventive
Health Care in Uganda
by HealthPartners
http://www.healthpartners.com/Menu/0,,14849,00.html
Bringing Health
Care to Rural Uganda: Village-Run Clinic Provides New Model of Success
By NPR. You can also listen to Joanne Silbner's report and a slide show
with music and photos.
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/may/uganda/index.html
Health insurance
for informal sector: case study of Gujarat
by Gumber, Anil; Kulkarni, Veena, Economic and Political Weekly
(EPW), India, September 2000
http://www.coopnetupdate.org/biblio/pdf/0026.pdf
"Guide
de gestion des mutuelles de santé en Afrique"
by the International Labor Organization (ILO).
The guide is structured around seven sections. The first
one introduces the principles of Mutual Health Organisations (MHOs) and
basic concepts relating to health insurance. The administrative organisation
of the MHO as well as different administrative management tools, such
as the role table, the statutes, and the internal regulations, etc. are
presented in the second section. The third one provides practical and
illustrated information on the mechanisms, the documents and the specific
procedures to the central activities of health insurance (management of
memberships, of payments, of provisions). Accountancy is tackled in the
fourth section. The fifth section is centered on the management of future
activities (anticipated management). With a view to reinforcing the financial
situation of the MHO, the sixth section deals with risks related to insurance
activities, which influence the sustainability of the MHO. Finally, the
seventh section introduces the concepts of monitoring, follow-up and evaluation
of the functioning of MHOs. To order, use the information below:
- ISBN 92-2-213872-4
French
30 CHF ; 22 euros (remise spéciale pour les pays en développement / discount for developping countries)
Format : 21 × 29.7 cm
Pages : xii + 278 pp - COMMANDES / ORDERS
TO :
ILO Geneva, Swtizerland : pubvente@ilo.org
ILO Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire : abidjan@ilo.org
ILO Yaounde, Cameroun : yaounde@ilo.org
ILO Dakar, Senegal : dakar@ilo.org
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