Leaders promise to address challenges affecting cooperative movement in Africa

Leaders in cooperative sector have promised to provide solutions to address challenges affecting cooperative movement in Africa.

The leaders were speaking during the 3rd Co-operative Movement Stakeholders’ Conference and the Co-operative University of Kenya’s 8th Annual Scientific Conference 2025 in Naivasha.

Cabinet Secretary for Education Julius Migos Ogamba who officially opened the conference said that the conference offers a platform for stakeholders to reflect on the future of Africa’s co‑operative movement and the role of education in embedding co‑operative values in curricula, research, and training.

The CS promised that Ministry of Education will work together with cooperative universities so that they have a cooperative curriculum implemented and mainstream in education system to ensure people benefit fully from the cooperative movement.

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PS, State Department and Cooperatives Patrick Kilemi said the government has granted the sector 120 million for digitization of the cooperative space and promise to work hand in hand with the ICT department to deliver their mandate.

Vice Chancellor of Cooperative University of Kenya Kamau Ngamau, said the cooperative plays a critical role in developing a nation through a bottom-up economic transformation agenda, which has five pillars

Prof Alfred Sife, the vice chancellor of Moshi University in Tanzania, said their aim is to develop the cooperative sector between the two countries and also to support cooperation between the two countries

The conference was held by CUK, in collaboration with State Department of cooperatives and Moshi University.

By Obegi Malack

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