Welcome message from the Editor

Welcome to the Kenyan Savings and Credit Cooperatives League. The Kenyan Sacco sector has been cited as one of the most vibrant credit union sectors in Africa and by extension, the whole world. Many innovative ways of running the Sacco business have been developed and more innovative products, services and business models for the cooperative organizations are underway. This blog serves to provide a platform where you can share your Sacco stories, whether you are Kenyan-based Sacco, East African Based Sacco or a credit union from the rest of Africa and the World. The author of this blog has substantial experience in credit union research with reference to Accountability, Disclosure and the Performance of credit unions. With the anticipated dynamism in the credit union sector, we expect more research themes to arise including but not limited to:

• the stability of the credit union/Sacco sub-sector;
• regulation in the credit union/Sacco sub-sector;
• performance of Saccos;
• strategic management in Saccos;
• innovations in the Sacco sub-sector;
• stress testing in the Sacco sub-sector;
• influence of the changes in the Sacco sector on certain micro- and macro-economic variables;
• reporting in the Sacco sector;
• professionalism in the Sacco sector;
• governance issues affecting the Sacco sector;
• financial inclusion in the Sacco sector;
• competition in the Sacco sector;
• among other themes.

I take this opportunity to invite practitioners, policy makers, Saccos themselves, researchers and other interested stakeholders to contribute to this blog and keep it vibrant just as is the case with the fast-growing Sacco sector!

David (author)