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CEDA Launches Cooperatives Product

Thabo Thamane PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Thabo Thamane PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) has launched the CEDA Cooperatives Product, a culmination of efforts to bring to market a product that seeks to address challenges cooperatives in Botswana face.

The product seeks to finance, among others, equipment, plant, asset acquisition, working capital needs and property development.

Through the facility, CEDA will fund cooperatives either being start-up, expansion, with income-generating activities, or registered with the Ministry of Investment Trade and Industry with up to P50 million.

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