The Cooperatives Financing Agency of Nigeria (CFAN) in collaboration with the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) is set to hold a national symposium to commemorate the 2022 global cooperative day.
The day marked on the first Saturday in July every year is an opportunity to promote the cooperative movement worldwide and to showcase the successes, challenges, and opportunities of cooperatives as a business model.
The organisations, in a statement obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, said the symposium is scheduled to hold on Tuesday. It aims to highlight the importance of sustaining Women’s Economic Cooperatives (WECs) in Nigeria.
The organisations noted that women have learnt to co-operate with others with whom they live in order to ease difficult physical and financial burdens together.
It said through cooperatives, women have continued to contribute to the nation’s economic growth despite a lack of access to funds.
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