Cooperative is group of people who work together voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise. Cooperatives are based on the values of self help, responsible, democracy, equality and solidarity, however believes in honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.
The cooperative section main function is promotion, registration of Cooperatives societies, inspection and mobilization of saving and credits societies.
The Municipality has 28 Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) and 2 Agriculture Marketing Cooperative Societies (AMCOS) which have 10,646members in which 5554 are male, 4647 are female and 458 are groups. Furthermore, these cooperatives have shares amount to Tshs.380, 925,217, Savings amount to Tshs. 2,195,132,049 and deposits amount to Tshs.111, 235,523.65 deposits. Table 6 explains in detail the number of each Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs), shares, savings and deposits.
