Year:2022   Volume: 4   Issue: 6   Area:

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Badr EL AZHARI, Houmam LOTFI

COOPERATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CAN BE INCLUSIVE IN THE EVENT OF CRISIS ? CONTRIBUTION OF COOPERATIVES TO THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC INCLUSION OF WOMEN IN MOROCCO

Women's access to employment is a key issue in the fight against their vulnerability because of its ‎impact on human and economic development. However, one of the most widely proposed solutions ‎within the framework of the INDH (National Initiative for Human Development) program is the ‎cooperative. Indeed, the latter has opened up great horizons, on the one hand, for the creation of ‎economic and social projects whose main ambition is to improve living conditions and, on the other ‎hand, for the identification of opportunities to respond to the specific needs of a vulnerable ‎population marginalized by the capitalist economy, and on the realization of these opportunities ‎through the implementation of adapted social entrepreneurial solutions.‎ Cooperatives act to enable women to live in society in dignity through the creation of decent jobs ‎and the equitable distribution of income. Social projects have multiplied in recent years in Morocco, ‎thanks to the launch of the INDH. Cooperatives can play a central role in mitigating the negative ‎effects of major crises. These cooperatives provide essential income for women. This is considered ‎as a source of possible emancipation for women and as a contribution to the socio-economic ‎development of the territories” (Guérin, 2011). In this context, we try to develop a line of thought ‎on the role of the cooperative enterprise as the type of organization best suited to combat and ‎reduce poverty and exclusion in all their forms. It can thus constitute a means of empowerment and ‎emancipation of Moroccan women.‎ The objective of our work is to present how cooperative entrepreneurship as a particular form of ‎social entrepreneurship can help to raise awareness of the effects of the covid-19 pandemic, and to ‎achieve inclusive territorial development‎.

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development, Cooperative Entrepreneurship, Socio-Economic ‎İnclusion

http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.20.33


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