Sacco Review | The Leading Newspaper for Co-operative Movement in Kenya
The Leading Newspaper for Co-operative Movement in Kenya
By David Kipkorir In a competitive corporate world, mostly driven by commercial interests, no stakeholder alone can sustainably identify and address all the cyber threats of the fast‐changing digital landscape. A cooperative becomes need of the hour to improve the overall collective cyber-resilience of the digital ecosystem. Intelligence sharing between stakeholders of cyber security is…
By Pascal Mwandambo Before I get to the core of this story, let me tell you about the amusing anecdote about a strange ‘doctor’ in the village where I grew up. I describe him so because some of the shenanigans he exhibited border on the absurd, if not criminal. You see Disco Matanga, for that…
By Paul Ngugi Ruo Human resource practices, both individual and organizational play an integral role in the growth or failure of any organization. It’s important to note that human actions are the greatest contributor towards any organization’s success and this is a key area that can’t be ignored in the cooperative sector. In Kenya today…
By Ben Oroko Have you ever felt like you are extra-ordinarily spending a lot of time meeting your Board members or delegates, time which you cannot get back and which you could have instead used completing an organizational project or attending to your family engagements? Naturally, meetings are a necessary management tool, yet they are…
By David Kipkorir Mergers, consolidations, acquisitions and federations are not new to cooperatives. Over the years, numerous cooperative leaders, management consultants, bankers and university researchers have urged cooperatives in Kenya to consider extensive reorganization and consolidation. Yet to many, such actions remain feared and misunderstood. Some view such acts as last resorts for the survival…
By David Kipkorir The coronavirus pandemic has induced a shift in cooperatives’ needs that will disrupt the movement ecosystem. As the world grapples with the pandemic, Savings and Credit Co-operative Society (Saccos) businesses have to reposition themselves to align with the demands of the “new normal”. Prioritizing good governance, digitalizing Saccos, and maintaining excellent and…
By Paul Ngugi Ruo Cooperation means living, thinking and working together. It is therefore important to uphold the socialist theme for effective running of cooperatives. Co-operation is based on the principal of self-help through mutual help, service above self and abolition of profits. Therefore, cooperative management is unique in its own way despite the fact…
By Fred Sitati One basic characteristic that distinguishes companies from cooperatives is that companies are associations of capital while cooperatives are associations of persons. Additionally, while companies strive to maximize profits for their shareholders, the same cannot be said of primary cooperatives that are voluntary self-help organizations that aim to solve members’ socio-economic and cultural…
By Victor Ochieng’ Networking, also known as self-marketing or social-marketing, entails circulating in business functions on a social level to create a wonderful web of useful connections. The basic philosophy of networking is ‘living is giving’. The heartbeat of networking is people caring about each other. As Theodore Roosevelt put it aptly, ‘People don’t care how much…
By Fred Sitati In the recent past, the cooperative movement has lost two flagship cooperative institutions to the state through expropriation. These cooperatives are Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) and Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU). KCC was renamed New KCC while KPCU was rebranded to New KPCU Ltd. The new effect of this change is that…
