Regional Cooperative Development Decade in East, Central and Southern Africa 1985-1995 - A Report on the ICA/FAO/ILO Inter-agency Mission to Tanzania in Support of Cooperative Development

Abstract

The ICA /FAO /ILO Mission represents a unique approach in inter-agency collaboration in jointly reviewing cooperative development in Tanzania on the general theme of Progress Towards Self-Reliance An Inter-agency approach contrasts with the tendency in the past, for external donor agencies at times, to provide assistance in an uncoordinated manner which has not always been in the best interests of the host country The Mission was assembled by the three agencies at the request of the ICA as a follow-up to the First African Ministerial Cooperative Conference held in Gaborone, Botswana, in May 1984, which declared a Cooperative Development Decade, 1985-1995, with the theme of Progress Towards Self-Reliance of the Cooperative Movement in the countries of the East, Central and Southern Africa Region.