Banka Coop

Project Banka Coop

Context

The idea of starting a worker coop in the rural village of Banka in Bafang Cameroon Africa came from the need to encourage local consumption of foodstuff cultivated by local agricultural laborers and create a trading platform to facilitate the buying between Cameroonian producers and buyers.

Project

To initiate a cooperative of farmers and trader groups using new technologies to facilitate the transactions between producers and buyers. The members of the coop can advertise their goods and offers on a Web site with their own Internet addresses, and farmer and trader groups can set up Web sites to manage all these services for their members. The cooperative can also have a local store where producers can advertise and sell their products to local community members.

Project Objectives

To enable Cameroonian agriculturers to prosper through timely supply of reliable, high quality local agricultural inputs and services, to faciliate the trade between rural and urban buyers and to initiate other socio-economic activitities to improve the welfare of the Bafang community.

• Activities
• Tasks

Social, Economic, Political Environment (North/South)

Cameroon

• Technical and cultural exchanges + funding
• Participation in international networks, building and sharing social capital
• Sharing of development experiences and social organization:South-South, South-North, East-West.

Organizations/NGOs/Partners

• ICO: International Co-operative Alliance

The International Co-operative Alliance is an independent, non-governmental organisation which unites, represents and serves co-operatives worldwide. ICA members are national and international co-operative organisations in all sectors of activity including agriculture, banking, fisheries, health, housing, industry, insurance, tourism and consumer co-operatives. ICA has 222 member organisations from 85 countries. ICA's priorities and activities centre on promoting and defending the Co-operative Identity, ensuring that co-operative enterprise is a recognised form of enterprise that is able to compete in the marketplace. ICA's activities include:

1. ICA raises awareness about co-operatives.
2. ICA ensures that the right policy environment exists to enable co-operatives to grow and prosper.
3. ICA provides its members with key information, best practice and contacts.
4. ICA is able to communicate the position of the Co-operative Movement on a wide range of economic, social and cultural issues because of its special status with the UN, the Council of Europe and regional development banks.
5. ICA provides technical assistance to co-operatives through its development programme.

• ICA Rules

NGOs

• Pya.Pya

A Development Consultancy working with and for communities directly at the grassroots level, in partnership with dynamic individuals, social groups and local civil society organizations. Fostering of real change and promote gender equality and respect of women’s rights through the utilization of women’s skills and intelligence, cultures and resources.

• Organisation of Rural Women's Development Association for Progress

An umbrella organisation made up of fiften Rural Women's Association and based in Cameroon. our main activities include farming, acquacullure, trade, revolving credit scheme, cooperative activities such as gari processing and many others. Because of diversified activities and greater participation, we are spread all over South West Province of Cameroon.

• Femmes Étoile de Banka

Association qui fait dans la transformation du manioc en divers produits(Baton de manioc,Tapioca,Couscous).

Partners

• Chefferie Banka
• exportateur de café
• fonctionnaire au service de l'agriculture

Evaluating solidity, accountability and sustainability

• Criteria

Gender: 5 Actions with women

• 5 Actions

Links

• Geographic Information
  • Haut Nkam District
• Partners/NGOs
  • Member of Femme Étoile Banka
  • Chefferie Banka
• Activities
  • Dried Manioc
  • Hearthstone
  • Corn Processing Machine