Report of a Study: Co-operative Adjustment in a Changing Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

The rapidly changing environment in Africa makes current cooperative development strategies and donor strategies obsolete, and any mobilization of additional resources for cooperative development assistance will have to take the new situation into account. It was therefore considered necessary to make an analysis of the present situation, outline, in general terms, a new strategy for cooperative development in Africa, upon which a revised strategy for the donors could be based. It is strongly felt that a clear view on how the African cooperatives intend to meet the future, together with a revised cooperative donor strategy, will be a prerequisite for obtaining aid resources from government and international donors.