Centro Cooperativista Uruguayo

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The Centro Cooperativista Uruguayo (CCU) is a Uruguayan non-governmental organization .

Structural data

The CCU, organized as a non-profit association ( Asociación civil sin fines de lucro ), was founded in November 1961. It has its own legal personality and has a seat in Montevideo and Paysandú . The CCU is both a co-founder and a member of the Confederación Uruguaya de Entidades Cooperativas (CUDECOOP), the Asociación Nacional de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (ANONG), the Asociación de Entidades de Capacitación (ADECA), and the Asociación de Organización de Latino the Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The current (status: 2004) President of the CCU isGraciela Fernández .

Field of activity

The field of activity of the CCU, which is active nationwide in both rural and urban areas, is the housing sector, in which it works towards improving the social and economic infrastructure and offers technical assistance and information. This should contribute to the promotion of self-reliance of those people who are active in the area of ​​cooperatives or self-help groups.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Centro Cooperativista Uruguayo (CCU) ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from http://lasociedadcivil.org (Spanish), accessed December 13, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lasociedadcivil.org
  2. ^ "Non-governmental organizations and democratization in Latin America", p.124f by Jutta Illert