Summary (French)

With regard to the cooperative involvement in providing social protection benefits to their members, the present intervention aimed at conducting in Karnataka a three-level survey in four selected cooperative societies with the following objectives:

1. Recognize with select cooperative societies representatives the local opportunities allowing for the extension of social protection benefits to the members;
2. Identify the social protection priority needs of members of select cooperative societies and the most appropriate mechanisms to answer these needs;
3. Assess the risk-coping strategies that are presently used by some members of the select cooperative societies;
4. Identify, in the select cooperatives societies already linked with the Yeshasvini scheme, the various mechanisms that are currently used to collect the premium as well as the causes of why some insurance contracts are not renewed.