Many rural, farmer-owned agribusinesses in Uganda are currently not managed professionally, which makes it difficult for these businesses to access inputs, services and finance. Additionally, organisations who work with cooperatives often deliver services in a fragmented, expensive and unsustainable way. AMEA aims to transform the way in which farmers and their organisations are supported. As part of this mission, AMEA created the Tool Improvement Facility, where AMEA members receive support to improve their current tools or innovatively adapt them to suit emerging needs in farmer organisation assessment and capacity building.<\/p>\n
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In response to these challenges and AMEA\u2019s call for tool improvement, SCOPEinsight spearheaded the development of a Rapid Assessment Tool<\/a> and a national database of cooperatives<\/a> in Uganda. Together with Rikolto, the National Alliance of Agricultural Cooperatives (NAAC) and Agriterra, this initiative will drive the adoption of a cooperative database In Uganda with regular cooperative assessments, using standardised assessment tools. This will help the Ugandan Ministry of Trade and Cooperatives (MTIC) keep track of developments in cooperatives and tackle the unstructured way in which various stakeholders work with cooperatives.<\/p>\n