• Interview with Chipo Kangayi by Lindsay Kearns
  (MP3 file, 5:22 mins, 2.1 MB)

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Chipo Kangayi recently finished her MSc at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research was supported in part by an Linking, Learning, Leveraging internship for a project titled "Measuring and Mapping the Impact of Social Economy Enterprises: A Case of Co-operatives in Canada." The Canada-wide study involved a comprehensive mapping and measuring of the geographic spillovers of co-ops in and beyond their local communities. Chipo's work combined data on the spatial attributes, type, and size of co-operatives with an extensive geographically coded data set containing socio-economic and amenity variables. Her results suggest that co-op activity in some regions has a positive impact on population growth, and hence there may be scope for co-ops to enhance their role in their communities by developing mechanisms that respond to evolving community needs.

Chipo has a great research interest in rural/regional development, poverty alleviation, HIV/AIDS issues, sustainable development, monitoring and evaluation of programs and has worked with various research projects. Prior to commencing graduate studies she was working for the United Nations World Food Programme in Zimbabwe, and has contributed immensely in the organizations’ monitoring and evaluation unit. She is currently working with the Community University Institute for Social Research.