Strengthening micro-businesses in Tanzania
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chalu, Henry | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Cyr, Patrick | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-07T19:42:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-07T19:42:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Like many countries, Tanzania sees cooperatives as an important tool for economic and social development. SACCOS (Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies) are actually identified as a major actor for the development of Tanzania but important challenges are facing their business members. During this project, a community needs assessment was conducted among the WAT SACCOS community, a Savings and Credit Cooperative Society located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and it was identified that their business members lack business management knowledge and skills. A group of business people, members of WAT SACCOS, was chosen as a partner for the project design and implementation: the Zalirotage Group. The solution identified by the stakeholders consists of developing a training tool in a specific element of the business management, the marketing activities, and to train business people. This project ended in December 2006 with a successful demonstration of the effectiveness of the participatory approach in project design and implementation. A training tool was developed and is now operational, the Zalirotage group members are trained, their management skills are improved, they have put to good use the knowledge acquired by starting a small group business, a strategy for the replication of the training to other members of WAT SACCOS is actually in planning, and the Zalirotage Group members have started to support the management of a small dispensary of their community, also member of WAT SACCOS. (Author abstract) | en_US |
| dc.description.bibliographicCitation | Cyr, P. (2007). Strengthening micro-businesses in Tanzania. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.edu | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Science (M.S.) | en_US |
| dc.description.school | School of Community Economic Development | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10474/360 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Southern New Hampshire University | en_US |
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| dc.rights | Author retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibited | en_US |
| dc.rightsHolder | Cyr, Patrick | en_US |
| dc.source | Original format: Bound CED Project Report, Shapiro Library, Southern New Hampshire University | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Southern New Hampshire University -- Theses (Community Economic Development) | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Open University of Tanzania -- Theses (Community Economic Development) | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | cooperatives | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | credit union | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | entrepreneur training | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | microenterprise | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Tanzania | en_US |
| dc.title | Strengthening micro-businesses in Tanzania | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |