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  • The co-operator 
    CUK, University (The Co-operative University of Kenya, 2001)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • How Worker-Owner Cooperatives Can Be Used to Build Inclusive Economies 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-05-03)
    A worker-owner cooperative is owned and self-managed by the workers using an established democratic governance structure where decisions are made either directly by every worker-owner or through an elected management. 
  • Align Worker-Owner Cooperatives to Values and Key Principles of the Movement 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-05-17)
    I’ll today focus on the link between the seven cooperative principles and worker-owner cooperatives. A worker-owner cooperative is owned and self-managed by its workers using an established democratic governance structure ...
  • Forming Domestic Worker Cooperatives Long Overdue 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-06-13)
    June 16 is the International Domestic Workers Day, when we honour. The ILO Convention 189 defines domestic work as “work performed in or for a household or households”. It includes a range of tasks—like house cleaning, ...
  • Democratic Member Control in Groups Nurtures Good Governance 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-06-21)
    The success of cooperatives is encapsulated in good governance principles, key among them member participation, representation and fair and transparent elections. This is espoused by Cooperative Principle #2: Democratic ...
  • Agricultural Co-Ops Have Potential to Build Climate Change Resilience 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-07-05)
    While on a trip to western Kenya recently, I had the now rare experience of seeing a flock of migratory birds, over Nakuru, making their way to breeding sites in the northern hemisphere. In my childhood, the sighting of ...
  • Agricultural co-ops must innovate so as to attract youth into farming 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-07-19)
    The “Economic Survey 2016” report says agriculture employs over 70 per cent of Kenya’s rural population and contributes 30 per cent of gross domestic product and 27 per cent indirectly. But the country’s food production ...
  • Bring The Youth into Agricultural Value Chain Through Positive Experiences 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-08-02)
    A fortnight ago, I pointed out that over 75 per cent of Kenya’s population is below the age of 35. While the youthful population may yield a demographic dividend, it is worth noting that the average age of the Kenyan farmer ...
  • Agricultural Co-Ops Should Support Farm Subsidies to Boost Productivity 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-09-06)
    The next government must get down to work to address the urgent needs of the Kenyan farmer. Agriculture forms the backbone of the country’s food security but the farmer has been left to their own devices.
  • How to Increase Farmers’ Resilience During a Crisis 
    Nyamongo, Isaac K. (Nation Media Group, 2022-10-04)
    Resilience has come into focus due to several large-scale events—from the economic crisis to Covid-19 and now climate change. These disrupt global-level systems and influence community-level responses. Do cooperatives ...

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