RESILIENCE AND UGANDAN CO
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OPERATIVES:
A LITERATURE REVIEW
IKD Working Paper No.
6
4
15 February
201
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A wor
king paper produced jointly by T
he Open University and the
Co
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operative College
Alexander Borda
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Rodriguez and Sara Vicari
The Open
University
The Co
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operative College
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Rodriquez
alexander.borda
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rodriguez@open.ac.uk
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“
Resilience and
Ugandan Co
-
operatives
:
A
Literature Review
”
A working paper produced jointly by the Open University and the Co
-
operative
College
Alexander
Borda
-
Rodriguez and Sara Vicari
The Open University
The Co
-
operative College
Abstract
This working paper is an output of the research project ‘Understanding Rural Co
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operative
Resilience: a pilot study’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust from October 2012 to September
2013. The project is a partnership between the Open University and the Co
-
operative College
UK, and the working paper is co
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authored by a research associate at each institution. The
research project explores whether and in what ways co
-
operatives are resilient social and
economic organisations.
By investigating the distinctive
nature of the co
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operative model, the
project aims to provide insights on limiting and enabling factors that might be required for
the development of resilience at the level of co
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operatives. This working paper includes a
general review of the literature a
s well as literature on the specific case of Uganda, which
has experienced a co
-
operative revival and has been engaging with new models of co
-
operative organisation.
Hazel Johnson (Open University)
Linda Shaw (Co
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operative College)