Makueni County Cooperative Development Policy 2022

Abstract

The launching of this first County Cooperative Development Policy marks an important milestone in the County Government’s efforts to use Cooperatives in realizing its development agenda and enable them play a key role in the development of the County as spelt out in the Makueni County Integrated Development Plan 2018-22. The main objective of this policy is to promote a sustainable cooperative movement in Makueni County for improved socio-economic growth of its residents and to re-align the County cooperative sector to the changed Government management structures, legal, and regulatory framework. This will entail improvement of performance in the existing cooperative societies, savings mobilization, access to affordable credit and revitalizing cooperative managed input supply systems in the agro-commodity based societies. It also intends to transform the County’s cooperative sector into a vibrant economic engine, contributing significantly to the economic growth of the County. The County Government recognizes that an efficiently managed and economically sustainable cooperative sector requires a satisfactory and enabling legal and regulatory environment. The County has in this policy domesticated the cooperative legal framework to re-align it with County specific needs and circumstances of cooperative societies as a devolved function. The County Cooperative Policy embraces various strategies needed to make the County Cooperatives efficient, effective, and competitive.