Social Change and Innovative Approaches for Cooperative Development

Faced with the challenges that cooperative movements across the globe and specifically in Cameroon have encountered since the colonial era, Dr. Ben Fru Wara, within this book, under takes a clearly scrutinized and analytical journey to illuminate the pertinent issues and considerations for most appropriate cooperative operations within the country and beyond.

In view that social change is an unavoidable eventuality in life, as a professional with over 50years of high level experience as a co-operator and teacher in the present focus, the author undertakes a painstaking endeavour in elaborating the legal and social implications of texts and the modern ethics of membership participation in effective cooperative democracy for assured cooperative development.

With a particular focus on the attitudes that potential co-operators need to adopt, this book goes an extra-mile in serving as an efficient teaching tool for both government officials and community members who intend to form and manage a cooperative or an association at any level in the society. Though the author's ideologies are developed from the early 90s period, the potency and democratic coverage scope for modern cooperative societies behind the presented ideas have attracted the Modern Advocacy Humanitarian Social and Rehabilitation Association (MAHSRA) to deemed as very useful in fostering the sustainable development goals.The material within this book, therefore, will serve as a very resourceful material for professionals and academicians including: managers, accountants, policy makers, teachers etc; and as well as common community persons aspiring to form, manage or sustain a cooperative or an association.