Analysis of the nature of management in cooperatives

Abstract

The Government of Rwanda adopted cooperative organizations as tool of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Vision 2020 and Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (EDPRS) Strategy. RCA (2017) sites that there exist 8560 cooperative organizations in Rwanda with around a total of 3.2 million members counting more than a quarter of total population of the nation. Kyriakos Kyriakopoulos (2000) suggests two models of organizing cooperatives, one is traditional and the other one is proportional. One of the advantages of traditional model is to support public policy. Cooperative organizations in Rwanda help the management of groups of people by sensitizing new government programs like unity and reconciliation, gender empowerment, health insurance, community work, modern agriculture technics etc., the aim of this thesis is to analyze the nature of management and governance of cooperatives by understanding what is recommended by RCA/ICA principals and what applied by Kayonza cooperatives. The cooperative values and principles will be the reference of good practices or right to cooperative members which affect positively the management success. This research was drawn by using the secondary and primary sources of information.