Country | Kenya | |
City | Mombasa | |
Name | Grassroots Economics – Bangla Pasa | |
Date | 2013 | |
Description of the project | Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that has the aim of marginalized communities empowerment, and that focuses on the communities’ development through their economic empowerment and through community currency programs. In Mombasa it has developed a community currency model called Sarafu-Credit”, based on a pilot form of mutual-credit (Bangla-Pasa) that has been launched in 2010. | |
Urban Co-Governance | Moderate | |
Enabling State | Weak | |
Pooling | Moderate | |
Experimentalism | Weak | |
Tech Justice | Weak | |
Project Website | http://www.grassrootseconomics.org/ | |
References, sources, contact person(s) | Interview to Will Ruddick (founder and technical director of Grassroots Economics Foundation)
Website : http://www.grassrootseconomics.org/ Contact : info@grassecon.org , willruddick@gmail.com |
Grassroots Economics – Bangla Pasa
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