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Address: A1-Phuong Mai-102 Truong Chinh Street, Dong Da District, Hanoi City, VIETNAM
Address: 40 Ramkhamhaeng Road (Sukhapiban 3) Sapansoong, Bangkok 10240, Thailand CULT is a national organization initiated by the private sector in 1972. CULT brings together more than 1,000 Thai credit co-operative groups, with more than 550,000 individual members, with women comprising more than 60 percent of the membership, as of year 2006. CULT works toward developing a strong and viable credit union (CU) movement in Thailand founded on the values of commitment, honesty, sacrifice, responsibility, sympathy, and trust, to promote self-help and mutual help to achieve human development and peace. Toward this, CULT seeks to develop CUs as the main financial institution in the community. Thus it commits itself to delivering excellent financial services and other services that will respond to both the social and economic needs of the members. CULT’s programs and activities include education and training, bookkeeping and accounting, dormitory and meeting room services, CU chapters promotion, women and youth development, mutual aid in CU, business enterprise development, information technology, and research and publications.
Address: 19-1 Jalan 9/42 Taman Sejahtera off, Jalan Kuching, Kuala Lumpur 51200, MALAYSIA CUPC was registered in 1974 under the Societies Act of Malaysia. Its main objective was to introduce grassroots economic initiatives for the poor in Malaysia, especially the Indian poor. Initially, CUPC engaged in collective farming, consumer bulk buying, and income-generation projects. After the CUPC leaders obtained training on credit unions (CUs) from the Philippines, India, and Canada, CUPC began to promote, organize, coordinate, and consolidate CUs among the unorganized sector in Malaysia. It is a partnership of two major but parallel grassroots-based credit unions in Malaysia, namely, the Koperasi Kredit Pekerja-Pekerja or KKP (Workers' Credit Co-op) in Kuala Lumpur and the Koperasi Kredit Rakyat or KKR (People's Credit Co-op) in Batang Berjuntai. Many of the members of KKP are workers of multinational companies in free trade zones in Kuala Lumpur and mining companies in nearby states. The majority of the members of the KKR, on the other hand, are plantation workers, paddy farmers, and fisherfolks. As of December 2005, CUPC has organized 611 community CUs, with a total membership of 50,470 (female 43.24%). Total shares in these CUs are USD1,893,365 (female 796,747 42.08%). CUPC’s role as coordinating body is to introduce various education and training programs; design and introduce new service and products; and do public relations and establish international links. Women Action Committees (WACs) formed in CUs at all levels help women to organize themselves and undergo basic education and training; and to increase their self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Training includes presentation skills, basic bookkeeping, how to conduct meetings, how to write minutes, leading and organizing skills, etc. The WAC has been transformed into the Gender and Development Committee (GAD) Committee, composed of women and selected gender-sensitized men (after gender-sensitivity training).
Address: Mampang Prapatan XIV/I, Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan 12760, INDONESIA FORMASI Indonesia is a national network organization that was established in 1987. It was organized by 10 non-government organizations (NGOs) that were concerned with the co-op movement, and in small and medium enterprise (SME) development in Indonesia. FORMASI started as a Dialogue Forum among its founding members: DEKOPIN (Dewan Koperasi Indonesia or the Indonesia Co-operative Council), and nine other NGOs. The Forum became official with a letter of agreement officially issued by DEKOPIN on February 26, 1986. Later, a baseline survey on co-ops that were not government-sponsored (that is, not KUD [Koperasi Unit Desa] or village co-op, which is supported by the government) and informal co-ops in 14 provinces from January to March 1986 was conducted by the Forum as its first activity. The survey results showed that that there was a demand for a co-op development program directly managed by an NGO. In its journey, FORMASI has changed its name and form in order to adjust its orientation as an organization. To leverage its bargaining position as a co-op development forum, FORMASI changed its name from Forum Pengembangan Koperasi to Forum Gerakan Pengembangan Koperasi Indonesia (FORMASI Indonesia); and its form through an Excellent General Assembly (Rapat Anggota Luar Biasa) on September 2002. It has transformed into an association, considering that it is a membership-based organization. It currently has 13 NGO member-organizations. By utilizing volunteer consultants from its member NGOs, FORMASI conducts capacity-building programs for members and even non-member NGOs. These programs include information technology (IT) skills development and training; an entrepreneurial exchange program; and training on gender awareness, gender mainstreaming, and transformative leadership.
NATCCO was put up by the private sector in 1977 as the National Association of Training Centers for Cooperatives. Regional co-op education and training centers located in the geographical regions of the country formed NATCCO to serve as their spokesperson, secretariat, and coordinating body. These regional centers were, in turn, started in the 1960s when primary or grassroots co-ops began to federate in order to have structures that would answer their need for co-op education and training. NATCCO came about primarily as a felt need of the regional centers to put up a united national front, as the private sector-initiated co-ops at that time were under threat from the Marcos dictatorship in the 1970s. As the years passed, the grassroots co-ops grew more in number and in their need for assistance from their regional centers and NATCCO. This development compelled the NATCCO network to pursue new directions, and to develop and expand services and programs, apart from the original mandate of education and training. With that came a change in name, as NATCCO took its current name in 1986, and the centers moved on to become total co-op regional development centers (RDCs). From the late 1990s to 2002, NATCCO focused on the development of technical tools on financial intermediation and enterprise development, with the RDCs as its principal service providers. In 2002, NATCCO’s General Assembly (GA) passed a resolution to study the restructuring of NATCCO from a three-tiered to a two-tiered structure. The Board of Directors (BOD) thereafter crafted the “Seven-Year Business Plan.” For NATCCO’s transformation, the GA amended the organizational bylaws in 2004, with financial intermediation as NATCCO’s principal focus, and the primary co-ops becoming NATCCO’s direct members. When NATCCO celebrated its twenty-ninth year in 2006, it launched its new vision and mission statements. The revisiting of the NATCCO network’s vision is part of a protracted change process—a transformative journey—that NATCCO decided to pursue in order to maintain and enhance its effectiveness and relevance to its affiliate-co-ops. As of 2006, NATCCO has a direct membership of 164 primary co-ops. NATCCO sits in the 13th Philippine Congress through the Coop-NATCCO Party List group. NATCCO has Financial Services and Allied Services: Financial Services: Central Fund, eKoopBanker, MICOOP, Western Union facilities Allied Services: ITECHLINE (information technology), Travel and Tours, Legal Services, Training, Youth, Hostel, Gender. NATCCO also has an Enterprise Development Center—Coopmart, Housing, Health, Funeral Care. It also has its Institute for Co-op Excellence (ICE). NATCCO has started its activities for women in 1988, beginning with women in development (WID) concepts, as a component of Canadian-assisted project. Growing concerns on gender and development (GAD) as well as the growth from WID to women and development (WAD) to GAD impelled NATCCO to form the Association of Gender Advocates in Development (AGAD) in December 1994. AGAD was tasked to consolidate NATCCO’s initiatives in GAD across co-ops; coordinate and implement GAD activities; and serve as a pool of resources, experiences, and ideas within NATCCO. Recently, NATCCO has been holding the Women’s Congress (just before the holding of a NATCCO GA meeting). In this Women’s Congress, there is the election for one representative each from the Philippines’s geographical regions—Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao—to sit in the NATCCO Gender Executive Committee (ExeCom). The election of these representatives is affirmed by the NATCCO GA, to serve a one-year term in the Gender ExeCom. One of them is also elected to sit in the NATCCO Board, representing the women’s sector in co-ops.
Address: No. 08, Chrey Kong Village, Véng Sréng Street Chom Chao Section, Dangkor Khan District Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA The Socio-Economic Development Organization of Cambodia (SEDOC) is a non-government organization (NGO) organized as early as July 12, 1991. It was officially registered in March 1993 with the Supreme National Council (SNC) of Cambodia, also known as the Cambodian government. SEDOC is also recognized and has been registered with the United Nations Transitional Authority of Cambodia (UNTAC) since 1993, and the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Cambodia since 2003. SEDOC’s field of expertise is on community development, particularly on rural and agricultural advancement. After doing humanitarian projects for several years, SEDOC focused on implementing income-generating projects and the establishment of credit unions. The overall objectives is to help the marginalized poor become self-reliant and to assist in curbing poverty in Cambodia. SEDOC’s major programs include sustainable agriculture, promotion of agricultural and credit co-operatives, establishment of rice banks, forestry and environment, and promotion of gender equality. SEDOC reaches out to at least five provinces of Cambodia covering about 70 villages. As of December 2007, SEDOC was able to assist a total of 20,965 women and men through its different projects and services. |
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