
BCICS is a research institute located within the University of Victoria.
The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica - is a technical cooperation programme for the promotion of cooperative development in Africa. From the ILO Office in Dar-es-Salaam, CoopAfrica covers so far 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa with support of the ILO Cooperative Programme in Geneva. CoopAfrica aims at helping people to co-operate out of poverty as well as to deal with the cooperative needs such as they have been identified in CoopAfrica's preliminary research project, Research for a Cooperative Facility for Africa. Together with a wide range of international and national partners, CoopAfrica promotes an enabling legal and policy environment, effective cooperative unions and federations as well as demand-driven services for cooperatives.