The State Department for Co-operatives falls within the government of Kenya’s Ministry of Co- operatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development. The Department is tasked with the development of co-operative policy, promotion and supervision of co- operatives, championing of co-operative education and training, and co-operative financing policy. Through the government’s BETA program, the State Department is tasked to promote co- operatives as economic transformation vehicles to channel support and resources to the grassroots; and champion the adoption of technology in developing solutions for co-operatives.

The Co-operative University of Kenya (CUK) is a public institution with a specific mandate of supporting the co-operative movement through provision of quality co-operative education, training and research. This role is well captured under Sessional Paper No.4 of 2020 on National Co-operative Policy on Promoting Co-operatives for Socio-Economic Transformation, to enforce the fifth co-operative principle on education, training and information.

The Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) is a global think-tank that supports the co- operative platform economy through research, experimentation, education, advocacy, documentation of best practices, technical support, the coordination of funding, and events. The Consortium is built upon the concept of platform cooperativism, which is anchored in collective ownership, democratic governance, decisive commitment to the global commons, inventive unions, social justice, as well as ecological and social sustainability