12th African Ministerial Co-operative Conference (AMCCO)

The Alliance Africa is delighted to invite you to its 12^th African Ministerial Co-operative Conference (AMCCO) and 13^th Regional Assembly, to be held from 2^nd – 6^th October 2018, in Abuja Nigeria. The theme for the meeting is, ‘Leveraging the Co-operative Advantage for the Africa Free Trade Area.’

It is expected that participants will find opportunity to engage, network and learn about latest developments in Africa, while committing to promote the co-operative business model to foster socio-economic growth and encourage intra-trade among African countries through co-operatives. The African Ministerial Co-operative Conference will take place on 5th October 2018 will be preceded by the Alliance Africa board on 2^nd, the 13^th Regional Assembly on and EU pre-conference on Mainstreamig Gender into Co-operative Leadership and Governance on 3^rd and AMCCO thematic conference on 4^th.

Book your place today by filling in the registration form and send it to the Alliance Africa office at email: info@icaafrica.coop. The registration is OPEN until the 20th August 2018.

The African Ministerial Co-operative Conference (AMCCO)

The conference brings together Ministers responsible for Co-operatives and Co-operative leaders after every three years to review progress and set targets for the future. This year’s conference will be held in Abuja – Nigeria from the 2^nd- 7^th September, 2018.

More specifically, the objectives of this conference will be:

-  To bring governments and co-operative movement leaders in a forum to take stock of the achievements made on the resolution 11th Ministerial Conference which was held in Gaborone Botswana and,

- To deliberate on how best we can leverage the co-operative enterprise model for the African Continent Free Trade Area agreement recently signed by African governments.

The outcome of this meeting will be to receive commitment from the government officials and ministers present, to continue promoting the co-operative business model to foster socio-economic growth on the continent. In addition, they are expected to encourage intra-trade among African countries through co-operatives hence, increased national trade by strengthening national co-operative value chains for country improved job creation, increased incomes and social mobility for individuals; improved fiscus, access to expanded and new markets and greater economies of scale.

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