• Why cooperatives matter in Kenya’s leather value chain. 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K (The Nation newspaper, 2026-03-02)
• From members to managers, how co-operatives work. 

  Nyamongo, Isaack (The Daily Nation, 2026)
• Cooperatives Would Help to Reduce the Cost of Food 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-08-01)

  The current state of the economy creates the right condition for starting a food cooperative. The cost of food in recent months has been dictated by various factors which have converged to dictate higher prices, a cost ...
• Strong Leadership is Pivotal to the Growth, Success of a Cooperative 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-05-02)

  In the past week, the Kenya Society of Professional Cooperators held its annual general meeting. On the agenda was election of leaders. Like the professional body, election of leaders for the cooperatives is a regular agenda item.
• Co-Ops, Social and Solidarity Economies a Boon to SDGs 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-07-04)

  A recent UN resolution, A/77/L.60, describes the social and solidarity economy (SSE) as “enterprises, organisations and other entities engaged in economic, social and environmental activities which serve the collective ...
• Cooperatives Can Provide Solution to Unwanted Ubiquitous Middleman 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-03-07)

  Recently, I stayed in a hotel in Kotrijk, Belgium, which served tea, coffee and chocolate sourced only from Fairtrade-certified farms. These products are so certified because, in their respective supply chains, Fairtrade ...
• Cooperative Farming Can Deal with Dwindling Cultivable Land 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-06-04)

  Kenya’s population has increased tremendously since Independence, from 8.93 million in 1963 to over 53 million. Yet the average agricultural production has fallen due to subdivision. In some places in Gusiiland, the average ...
• Best Sacco Should Be That Which Gives Loans at Lowest Interest Rate 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-04-04)

  Recently, the Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development urged saccos to focus on lowering interest rates on loans to members instead of pushing for higher dividends.
• How Kenya Can Tame Healthcare Costs Through Health Cooperatives 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2021-10-19)

  The cost of accessing healthcare in Kenya is way beyond what many can afford, even with the government including universal health coverage (UCH) in the government’s ‘Big Four Agenda’. Even with insurance, many families ...
• This is How We Can Address the Gender Question in Cooperatives 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2021-11-02)

  The 2019 census recorded a men-to-women ratio of 49.5:50.5 among the population of 47.6 million. But that is reflected in other statistical indicators. Despite Kenya ranking top in cooperatives in Africa and seventh globally, ...
• Cooperatives Can Help to Address Kenya’s High Energy Prices 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2021-11-16)

  A recent review of Kenya’s energy sector revealed that hydropower accounts for about 52.1 per cent of total production followed by thermal (fossil fuel, 32.5 per cent), geothermal (13.3 per cent) and biogas, wind and solar.
• Boost Women’s Economic Power Through Agricultural Cooperatives 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2021-12-07)

  Traditionally, men have focused on, and controlled through cooperatives, cash crops and dairy farming, largely because these provide higher returns. Extension services are, in fact, often geared towards support for cash ...
• Living in a Senior Citizen Cooperative Housing Better Than Living in Solitude 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2021-12-21)

  Kenya’s annual demand for housing is 200,000 and 300,000 units in urban and rural areas respectively. The country will need 2.9 million units in a decade, or 290,000 per year, which far exceeds current supply.
• Initiate Traceability of Farm Produce to Capture Global Market and Avoid Losses 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-01-18)

  What you need to know: If KFC cannot, for proprietary reasons, tell farmers their requirements, how would they engage? Does the farmer proceed through trial and error until KFC gives the thumbs-up?
• Service Cooperatives Aren’t Alien to Africa; They Have Long History Here 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-02-01)

  What you need to know: The groups facilitated economic participation, marshalling collective labour force for farming activities. They freely organised themselves in terms of when, where and how they worked. ...
• Platform Cooperatives Key to Greater Involvement of Youth in Movement 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-02-15)

  What you need to know: Platform cooperatives have the potential to radically transform cooperative enterprises. Lessons from emerging experiments in the cooperative platform economy across the world should be ...
• Cooperation Among Cooperatives Help Them to Expand Their Reach 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-03-15)

  There is an old drawing I used to see on the noticeboard of our local cooperative. It depicted two cows tethered to either end of a short rope with each pulling, to no avail, in the opposite direction in a bid to reach a ...
• Measuring Economic Contribution of Cooperatives to GDP Important 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-01-03)

  The 13th African Ministerial Cooperative Conference concluded in Egypt with a declaration committing the ministers to a 13-point agenda that will be the focus of cooperative development in Africa for the next three years.
• Use School-Based Co-Ops to Recruit the Next Generation of Cooperators 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2023-02-07)

  The average age of the agricultural cooperative member, now 61, has gradually increased over the years. Coupled with rising rural-to-urban migration, the resultant imbalance is a harbinger of food scarcity in the not-so-distant ...
• It’s Beneficial to Be in a Transport Service Cooperative Than in Sacco 

  Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-04-19)

  A fortnight ago (Daily Nation, April 5, 2022), I argued that matatus and boda bodas should be organised into transport service cooperatives rather than saccos. As if on cue, on April 6, 2022, the Commissioner of Cooperatives ...

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