Manyakabi Area Cooperative Enterprise

MACE is a second level cooperative(union) registered under the co-operative societies law of Uganda (the co-operative society’s statute, 1991) with its membership composed of 146 rural women groups (membership within groups ranges from 50-500 members of which 7146 are women, 175 are orphans and vulnerable children, and 694 are men). It was registered in 1991 as a farmer’s organization in Isingiro district and later was reoriented in 2004 and registered as a production and marketing cooperative society in an effort to empower women towards income-generating activities. Its Registration No is 7058. The numbers of individual farmers are 8,015 in Isingiro district (This district has been categorized as a hard to reach District in Uganda). MACE is affiliated to Uganda co-operative alliance, the apex body for cooperatives in Uganda and supervised by the office registrar of co-operatives. MACE is a community owned, used, controlled and rural based society which was formulated by women groups in 2002 Nov.
In Masha subcounty we have 36 women groups, 35 groups in Birere, 33 women groups in Kaberebere Town council and 42 women groups in Nyamuyanja subcounty.