1. CO-OPERATIVES INSTITUTE PROPOSAL TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING VENUE: SA PARLIAMENT, CAPE TOWN DATE: 11 September 2012

2.  Who we Are - SAWICO  Problem Statement  Our Proposed Solution  Why Work with SAWICO  Summary 2

3.  A Front of Female Primary Co-operatives (including youth, people with disabilities and about 20% males)  Came together acknowledging past failures  Guided by the 5th Principle of Cooperatives (Training and Education)  Formally formulated in August 2011and launched at the Tshwane City Hall  Inspired By the Boldness of 1956 Women  Emerged to facilitate Programs that seek to address stagnation within Co-operatives in all Sectors

4.  DTI  Economic Development  Education  Social Development  SEDA  OLD MUTUAL  Cooperative Practitioners and Advisory Council Members from Kenya and Zimbabwe

5. To break the cycle of poverty amongst women and their families by 2020 through a critical and viable Cooperative Institute.

6. To provide a Business Incubator Facility for early stage and start up cooperatives for:  Cooperative Management  Business Management Skills  Technical Skills (Benefitiation,Agro-processing,etc)  Process Management and Quality Control  Business Opportunity Identification  Regular Compliance  Mentorship, Coaching and After-Care Services

7.  About 50 000 co-operatives are registered with CIPC  Approximately 2600 are economically viable  Less than 6% of those operational are compliant  Female Membership outnumbers male  Low Survival Rate of Cooperative society

8.  Governance and Institutional Structures  Leadership and Administrative Issues  Management of Co-operative affairs  Financial Management and Record Keeping  Access to information on finance and other support services  Access to Markets and Competitive forces  Operational and Technical challenges

9.  Illiteracy  Limited Mentorship Programmes  Lack of Effective Cooperative Institutes  Lack of dedicated units in various departments –  No specific budget for co-operative development

10. The challenges listed above call for an Institutional Framework which will provide Strategic and Strong Visionary Leadership working alongside Government in supporting co-operatives. THERE IS AN NEED TO SAVE THE NATION FROM ………

13.  SAWICO supports the conversion of Adult Education and Training Centers into Community Adult Centers.  Community Business Schools are also found throughout the world.  Cooperative Development should also be taken into consideration  SAWICO would like to propose the establishment of Co-operative Institutes with a budget allocation

14.  Incubation Centres: Long Term and Short Term Programs(Management Skills that includes Financial Skills addressing Personal Budgeting)  Rural Communities : Landbou,Language barriers, recognition of Prior Learning  Domestic Workers/ Gardeners: Primary Health Care, Aupairs, Cooking Lessons - HACCP  People with Disability: ICT, Interpretation, Beauty Care, etc

15. Clients Government Partners Graduated Cooperatives Professionals & Mentors SAWICO

16.  One of our greatest tools to ensure that the eggubator achieves its goals is to perform consistent internal monitoring and evaluation  Early Warning Indicator Identification  Regular Meetings & Reporting by cooperatives  Feedback Mechanisms

17. OUR CONTACTS: Tepsy Ntseoane (President) Email:president.sawico@yahoo.com Cell:082 787 6134 Phomolo Mokuele(Deputy President) Email:phomolo@emergbc@gmail.com Cell: 076 279 7711 Beauty Mbangula (Head of Training and Development) Email:beauty.mbangula@gmail.com Cell:084 620 7991 17