On 6 December, Dennis Zulu, Director of ILO CO-Abuja covering Ghana visited CUTraC to appreciate the training workshop, expressing interest to roll out the training programme elsewhere in the subregion. Plans are being made to roll out the training programme in other countries and regions from the second quarter of 2018. The participants appreciated the participatory methodology and intense interaction among themselves and the facilitators.ĭennis Zulu, Director of ILO CO-Abuja visited the training groupThe ApexFinCoop training materials will be finalised early 2018 based on the inputs from this pilot workshop. CUA, for example, is a mature apex organization established in 1968. The feedback received confirmed that the training content was relevant for financial cooperative apex organizations, irrespective of the maturity of the apex. The training was concluded successfully, with active engagement by the participants. Financial sustainability and risk management.Development and delivery of products and services.The programme was structured around the following key themes: Most of the 26 participants represented CUA (board members, management staff and CUTraC staff), in addition to several participants from primary or regional credit unions, regulators (Department of Co-operatives under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and Bank of Ghana), Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network (GHAMFIN), and Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation (SBFIC). The training workshop took place at the Credit Unions Training Centre of CUA (CUTraC) in Kasoa, Ghana. The objective of this pilot workshop was to validate the contents and methodology and collect inputs for the finalization of the material. It aims at empowering financial cooperatives apex organizations and other support institutions including policy makers and regulators to advance the scale and effectiveness of financial cooperatives. This new training programme is a result of a collaborative effort by a variety of international organizations and financial cooperative experts around the world. Group presentation at the workshopFrom 4 to 8 December 2017, ILO, the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collaborated with the Ghana Credit Unions Association (CUA), the apex organization of cooperative credit unions in Ghana, to pilot the “ApexFinCoop” training programme.
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