First meeting was held on July 9-10, 2009 with Ms Anette Engleryd, Swedish Cooperative Center (SCC) Senior Project Manager. Ms Engleryd updated AWCF with SCC’s organizational trust and development plan as foundation for AWCF to explore opportunities for future cooperation.  In the second meeting held July 17-18, 2009, SCC was represented by Mr. Joel Beasca, a Filipino SCC Consultant. The meeting was a venue for AWCF and other SCC partners in the Philippines to discuss future plans that may eventually make-up the SCC country program for the Philippines for 2010-2012. The third meeting was held on July 23-24, 2009 with Ms Bonnie Bernstrom, SCC’s Swedish Consultant. Ms Bernstrom gave significant inputs on how to improve GE (gender equality) in the Philippines and also shared the Swedish experience on GE. Ms Bernstrom also acted as AWCF’s Resource Person in the recently concluded Forum on Gender Equality in Co-operatives held July 21-22, 2009.