The County Government of Kirinyaga has trained officials of recently launched Ward Based multi-value chain Saccos in order to enhance their capacity to run the cooperatives effectively. The 172 officials drawn from the 20 wards were trained on money lending, insurance and collateral on loans among other Sacco management good practices.
The capacity building was carried out in partnership with CIC Insurance and Cooperative Bank.
The multi-value chain SACCOs were founded with the aim of providing farmers with affordable operational capital, savings and credit services, farm inputs as well as value addition and bulk marketing opportunities.
Their membership currently stands at around 6,000 farmers involved in priority value chains such as avocado, tomatoes, poultry, banana, dairy goat farmers among others.
