UGANDA COOPERATIVE
COLLEGE KIGUMBA
Presentation to participants on the
agricultural cooperatives transport
At City Royale Hotel
22nd-24th Nov 2011
BACKGROUND
 Uganda Cooperative College – Kigumba is the only
Cooperative College in the country. It started at
Nsamizi in 1954, transferred to Bukalasa in 1963 and
to the present campus in 1974. It is a tertiary
institution of higher learning.
 The college vision is “A Centre for Excellence in
Cooperative and Private Sector Development”
CONT
The mission of the college is “To contribute
to the efficient management, sustainable
development of cooperative movement and
the private sector by providing skilled
manpower, enlightened membership through
research, education and training”.
CONT.
The College’s objectives are to:- carry out
practically oriented training in middle cadre
personnel for the cooperative movement.
Conduct tailor made courses for both
cooperative movement and other private
sector Enterprises.
CONT
 Develop and implement demand-driven training
programmes.
 Mainstream gender in cooperative training and
management.
 The college therefore in the last 57 years of its
existence has been conducting training and research in
cooperatives.
SERVICES PROVIDED BY
ORGANIZATION
Training
Education
Research and Consultancy
Project Writing, monitoring and Evaluation
Baseline Surveys
DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION
PROVIDE TRANSPORT
The College does not provide
transport services
The College Mandate is to provide
Training, Education and Research to
the Cooperative movement
OUR TRANSPORT NEEDS
In order to undertake wide research for
the cooperative movement we need some
vehicle probably four wheel drive which
can manage the poor roads or facilitation
to hire transport services.
WHAT ARE OUR AIMS FOR
TRANSPORT PROVISION
 The college will carry out in-depth research and evaluation
on how cooperatives can provide solutions to getting Africa’s
harvest to markets in collaboration with University of Leeds,
UK transport NGO Transaid and Coop College UK.
 The research will bring out experiences of those
cooperatives who are already providing transport, their
solutions, as well as challenges
CONT.
Highlight significant discoveries and
achievements that build new knowledge.
Provide a platform for solving emerging
problems
Expand creative thinking among our
cooperatives.
H O W W O U L D Y O U L I K E TO I M P R O V E
Y O U R T R A N S P O RT S E R V I C E S
Providing well researched information
based on member needs and distilled lessons
that can be shared more widely along with
some basic technical knowledge amongst all
cooperatives a cross the region
CON
END OF PRESENTATION
Thank you