Putting Cooperative Development in Urban Development Agenda: An Analysis and Lessons from Co-operative Reform and Modernization Program Implementation Intervention with Case Reality in Tanzania
Cooperative development in Tanzania and elsewhere in the world has been a vehicle for improving livelihoods of the residents in both urban and rural settings. It has a historical movements trend from agriculture crop productivity, marketing and value additions needs and movements, which in most developing countries required joint efforts and partnership in its operations for member based benefits in sustainable urban development agenda. Management of these cooperative societies as a vehicle for poverty reduction has been facing various challenges including but not limited to corruption, policy and legal setting as well as institutional structure and systems in place, which among others necessitate many developing countries to have cooperative reform programme to redress the situation, Tanzania inclusive. This paper therefore is centered on documenting factors constraining co-operatives reform and modernization program implementation in Tanzania, which pave the way of putting cooperative development in urban development agenda in view to poverty reduction, institutional and systems development as well as empowerment needs. It examines the case of Kalali Women Dairy Co-operative Society Ltd in Hai District Council to evidence the need. It analyses the co-operative reform awareness among co-operative members. Similarly, highlights the type of services offered by the society as well as factors hindering the implementation of co-operative reform and modernization program. The paper wind up by establishing prospects for future implementation modalities and required capacity for improvement, thus contributing to poverty reduction and meeting the interest of co-operative movement, needs, principles and therefore becomes an integral part of urban development agenda in Tanzania. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA
Human Capital Deprivation and Its Contribution to Multidimensional Poverty: Access through Rural Organisations in Nyakagabagaba, South-Western Uganda
This study elaborates how human capital deprivation contributes to the overall multidimensional poverty in Nyakagabagaba and how rural dwellers in the study area belonging to rural organisations (members) access or accumulate human capital desired for their livelihood through the cooperatives and associations they belong to while nonmembers gain access to the needed human capital components through the spillover effects created by rural organisations' function, purposes and services provided. The relationship between perceived rural organisation influence in access to human capital component and the condition (deprived or nondeprived) of human capital components is studied to establish the significance of rural organisations in accessing or accumulating on the components of human capital. Findings show that rural organisations enhance access to human capital, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty. Keywords: Rural organisations; human capital; multidimensional poverty; livelihoods; cooperatives; associations
Economic Size Trumps All Else? Lessons from BRICSAM
Continuing CIGI's BRICSAM research, this paper questions whether size (economic or population) of emerging economies alone is enough to warrant accommodation in the rules and structures of the global system. The global realignment of states following the resulting power vacuum brought on by the end of the Cold War is finally materializing, as a new triangular formation has taken shape: the first world club of the OECD; the second world of emerging economies; and, a heterogeneous third world of the rest. The interplay between and mobility among these groups of states deserves in-depth analysis. The core of this paper observes the economic and social trends of countries in second tier, and their upwards aspirations towards the top-tier of the global architecture. Traced through a variety of indices, the growth of the BRICSAM group of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, ASEAN-4 and Mexico) is demonstrated to be a powerful force in international economics and political economy. For the inclusion of these states, a change in the key aspects of global economic governance, the international architecture and geopolitics seems inevitable, and with it, new challenges arise for decision-makers and scholars alike.