Rubanga Cooperative Society and Rubanga Coffee

Impact

What 40 years of ownership looks like.

The point of a cooperative is not the coffee — it's what the coffee does for the people who grow it. Here's how we measure that.

Rubanga staff members supporting cooperative impact programmes

By the numbers

The state of the cooperative.

20,578
Member-owners
421
Farmer groups
48%
Women members
32%
Youth members
13
Affiliated coops
100%
Fairtrade premium returned

Stories

Programmes and milestones.

Rubanga staff members supporting women in coffee programmes

Women in Coffee

Targeted leadership and credit pathways have grown women's participation to 48% of membership — with all-women groups now leading cup-quality rankings.

A Ugandan Village Savings and Loan Association group meeting

SACCO in year two

Rubanga Mitooma SACCO membership has crossed 3,000 — extending financial inclusion deep into the cooperative for the first time.