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By Leticia Oliveira An estimated 800,000 trash recyclers collect 90% of Brazil’s recyclables every day. Many Brazilian cities lack formal recycling programs, so catadores (recyclers) offer a crucial public service and play an important role in protecting the environment. Still, they remain largely undervalued in their communities. Forming a recycling cooperative is no longer a…
Read MoreThe Cooperative Leadership Engagement Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) program, funded by USAID, Cooperative Development Program, recently developed a series of training and educational videos to capture the curriculums and materials developed over the life of the program. Cooperatives, SMEs, and others can benefit from these videos to learn about the basics of cooperative management, view…
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By Olga Oyier & Maureen Gitau, USAID/CLEAR Program Kenya’s devolved system of governance has provided the country with an opportunity to implement grassroots-led development programs but also revealed technical gaps at the county government level, particularly in the area of public policy formulation and implementation. More specifically, the cooperatives policy and legislative reform process to…
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By Maureen Gitau, USAID/CLEAR Program Registration of cooperative businesses is a challenging issue for policymakers and stakeholders in the cooperative sector. Under Schedule Four of the Kenyan Constitution, cooperative development is a fully devolved function, meaning oversight for cooperatives was transferred from the national government to county governments, including the transfer of powers and funding.…
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Global Communities’ Cooperative Leadership Engagement Advocacy and Research (CLEAR), funded by USAID, Cooperative Development Program – supports worker cooperatives to build their business identity and improve their performance to remain competitive in the ever-changing, Kenyan business environment. Since 2015, CLEAR has supported 20 cooperatives in Kenya (ten worker cooperatives, five housing cooperatives and five producer…
Read MoreThis learning brief provides a snapshot of The Cooperative Leadership, Engagement, Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) Program’s successes and challenges based on findings from the Mid-term Evaluation (MTE) that draws on interviews and surveys from program partners and stakeholders in Kenya. The MTE examined how stakeholders perceive CLEAR’s success in achieving its objectives – specifically how…
Read MoreKenya has a vibrant and dynamic cooperative movement. The worker cooperative model, while new to the Kenyan Cooperative sector, is gaining attention and recognition as a tool for equitable economic development and job creation. In the United States, worker cooperatives have been gaining popularity over the years and their success is making a big impact.…
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Kigro Recyclers was established in 2019 by youth entrepreneurs as a waste collection enterprise with a goal to tackle the growing problem of unemployment and garbage collection in the streets of Nairobi, Kenya. The youth do not operate like any other waste collectors’ group – they a worker cooperative, managed and owned by members themselves.…
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Cooperatives Leadership Engagement, Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) program, funded by the USAID Bureau of Economic Growth, Education and Environment is implemented by Global Communities in Kenya to strengthen the cooperative business ecosystem. CLEAR’s focus includes the following: Improving cooperative business-enabling environments through regulatory reform; Improving cooperative business performance through tailored capacity building; and testing and…
Read MoreKinshasa, DRC – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Equity BCDC have partnered to unlock financial services and products to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operators in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) via USAID’s Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) Project. As one of the largest banks in the DRC, Equity BCDC…
Read MoreKinshasa, DRC – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Equity BCDC have partnered to unlock financial services and products to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operators in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) via USAID’s Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) Project. As one of the largest banks in the DRC, Equity BCDC…
Read MoreA pre-competitive and collaborative group of refiners familiar with the challenges of sourcing artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) gold from the DRC came together in late 2020 under the umbrella of USAID’s Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) Project’s Refiners Community of Practice (CoP), following in-depth market analysis into the reasons why they tend to refrain from…
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By Rachel Brass – Director, Market Linkages and Investment, USAID’s Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) Project Gold refiners Heimerle + Meule, IGR, Italpreziosi, L’Orfebre, MKS PAMP, PX Precinox and Rand Refinery have joined a pre-competitive and collaborative group of refiners interested in learning and sharing the realities of sourcing artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) gold from…
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< Back to 2021 Annual Report homepage Africa Global Communities’ 2021 Annual Report “The extent to which these projects will help our people cannot be overemphasized. … This will go a long way to solve our people’s challenge of several years of living without potable drinking water.” Lawal Tamimu, WASH for Health program participant, Ghana…
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Many communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rely on artisanal and small-scale mining as a primary livelihood. While a significant drive of DRC’s economy, it tends to be an informal and risky business that has also been used to fuel conflict. As a key source of income for armed groups and criminal…
Read MoreToday’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Solutions See how Global Communities is driving change to save lives, advance equity and secure strong futures. DIVE IN + FOLLOW OUR PROGRESS Play Video Save Lives Advance Equity Secure Futures Confronting the World’s Most Pressing Problems Over the past several decades, conflicts and other crises have become more protracted, and the…
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How USAID’s Zahabu Safi (Clean Gold) Project is strengthening local civil society to carry out due diligence through a new information management platform By Kevin Eze Patrick, Guy and Yves* are lawyers from the city of Bunia in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who work for Justice Plus, a…
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