Khulisa Management Services was commissioned by the International Labour Office (ILO) to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the CoopAFRICA programme. The Cooperative facility for Africa (CoopAFRICA) is a regional technical cooperation programme of the Cooperative Programme of the ILO (EMP/COOP), decentralised to the ILO Office for Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda located in Dar es Salaam. The initiative (launched in October 2007 and ending in 2010) aims to contribute to poverty reduction by strengthening the cooperative movement in nine countries in Eastern and Southern Africa: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The evaluation provided an assessment of the extent to which the programme’s outputs had been reportedly achieved and attempted to determine if the programme is moving towards the achievement of its desired objectives. The evaluation, which took place in August and September 2009, included document reviews, interviews and focus group discussions with key stakeholders and site visits to Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.