Domestic workers in Trinidad and Tobago develop a business plan for their cooperative
On May 12 to 13, the ILO organised a workshop with domestic workers and their union in Trinidad and Tobago to develop a business plan for their cooperative. The workshop used the C-BED methodology, a low cost, action-based and participatory group learning approach designed by the ILO to help entrepreneurs and micro-business owners in planning and improving their businesses.

As a follow-up for the previous consultation and workshop, the ILO Office for the Caribbean, with support from the ILO COOP Unit, organised a workshop with SWCC on May 12th to 13th. This workshop brought together 19 SWCC members with the aim of enabling the understanding on the process of business planning and its various components, and to support the members to develop a business plan for SWCC.

For the exercise of developing business plan, the participants worked on the background information such as the vision, mission and philosophy of SWCC, which provided them with a good opportunity to revisit their identity as a cooperative.
The ILO will continue to support the SWCC in follow up activities, which will include a three-day workshop on cooperative management for the Board of Directors and members, and capacity development training in occupational safety and health and the development and use of service contracts.