"Planning for Cooperatives" Training

We hosted a training seminar on "How to Form Cooperatives" which in Macedonia we must refer to as "Shareholder companies" because of the negative image of cooperatives throughout the communist regime of Tito. This project was financed in part by Land O'Lakes, GTZ (a German international aid organization) and InWent (also German, pronounced InVent) an agribusiness consulting firm.

In this photo my counterpart Luli (in the foreground) and Lazar (the sheep sector field agent for the Eastern part of Macedonia) are working on listing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats we discussed with our Sheep breeders at the SWOT Analysis workshop which was held the week before.