This page has been developed to assist newcomers to Ghana to become familiar with the many cooperative forms of social organisation to be found within Ghanaian society.

In particular, it has been developed for the meeting of the Odyssey Group held at the Centre for Social Policy Studies, Ghana, August/September, 2001.

Local financial and entrepreneurial institutions in Ghana

• Linking formal and informal financial intermediaries in Ghana
• Cran -microcredit programme
• Frafra basket making cooperatives
• Income generation, credit and building community capacity in Ghana
• Networking for success and survival in Ghana

Traditional social organisation in Ghana: and some modern challenges.

• The fishing sector
• Women, fishing and traditional mutual aid associations
• Market women, queen mothers and inheritance structures

The role of cooperatives in Ghanaian agriculture

• the role of cooperatives in potato farming in Ghana

This page has been created by
Margaret Grieco, member of the Odyssey Group,
Professor of Transport and Society,
Napier University
and formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana, Legon.

5th September, 2001