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Functions
- Identify and establish areas of collaboration, partnerships and associations amongst stakeholders in the cooperative sector
- Provide a platform for relevant organizations for partnership and investments liaising with potential development and other partners
- Identify and Promote investment opportunities in the cooperative sub sector
- Coordinate development and investment proposals in collaboration with relent agencies , ministries and organizations
- Promote vertical and horizontal business linkages amongst stakeholders in the cooperative sector
- Championing on the promotion and upgrade on various value chain
- Asses the current state of the knowledge management amongst the stakeholders in the cooperative sector
- Monitor and evaluate performance and growth of the cooperative sector
Projects and Programs Being Undertaken
- Development of implementation to actualize cooperative Share trading platform and Agency banking for the SACCOs
- Develop Management Information Systems for the cooperative sector
- Establish Agribusiness Development Advisory centers(ADAs) in 13 counties and one headquarter
- Train Cooperative officers and cooperative chief executives on Management Information Systems
- Expose cooperatives to best practices
- In collaboration with Purdue University, plans to set up incubation centers for value addition
- Link Agricultural cooperatives to program and projects in the agriculture sector supported by development partner
- Facilitate the formation and implementation of new business ventures in the cooperatives
- Promote , liaise and manage relationships with investors and other development partners
- Monitoring and Evaluating the ongoing projects
Others
- Offer advisory services on business plan development and value chain analysis
- Available business plan templates for coffee
- Access value chain analysis reports of various agricultural commodities
- Access investment opportunities presented during the Grow Africa Forum
Achievements
- Developed a sharia compliant cooperative development policy
- Developed training manuals and modules on Agribusiness, supplies value chain, extensions and advisory services, and emerging business models
- Developed prudential standards for the cooperatives
- Built the capacity of 200 cooperative leaders and government of Kenya’s technical and extension personnel on agribusiness and emerging business models
- Developed concepts on new business ventures for the cooperative business model (Share trading and Agency banking)
- Linked the cooperatives with the running development partners funded programs in the agriculture sector such as Njaa Marufuku, Kenya, EAAPP , KAPP, KAPAP , IFAD and FAO
- Developed document showing possible investment opportunities for selected value chains for Grow Africa Forum
- In collaboration with World Bank developed strategies to enhance participation for entrepreneurs in the food industry

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