COTRAF is a trade union with nearly 10,000 members from the formal and informal sectors, including tea farmers and tea factory workers. It includes unions in agriculture, livestock and construction, industry, banking, hotels, various private and public services, education, media and others. COTRAF has helped 800 households and 1,500 workers in the informal sector in the north of the country to improve their incomes, through the creation or strengthening of savings and credit banks, the creation of social bakeries, and appropriate training and coaching.