1. A consolidated outputs of the
cluster/sectoral congresses conducted
from April to November 2015
Jun T. Defensor
Chief – Cooperative Project Development
Assistance Section
Call for Action

2. Collation undertaken:
POLICY CONCERNS
PASSAGE/
AMENDMENT OF
LAWS
ADVOCACY
NETWORKING/
LINKAGING
CALL FOR
ACTIONS

3. • Restructuring of the sector. Only in the Philippines we have
several federations and union
• Formulation of risk management framework
• Model Code of Conduct for Cooperatives
• Development of Succession Plan Framework
• Enhancement of CDA guidelines on accreditation of
External Auditors to include ethical standards in the
conduct of audit
• CISA implementation
• Remittance of CETF
• Branding of Cooperatives
• Inclusion of “Agricultural Cooperative”, “Indigenous
Cooperative”, and “Islamic Cooperative” as one of the
types of cooperatives

4. • Continually work for the upgrade and sustainability of
micro and small cooperatives, respectively to graduate to
small and medium or even large cooperatives.
• Popularize cooperativism and cooperatives through public
and quad-media advocacy
• Development of Cooperative Development Program for the
Youth in order to develop future cooperative leaders
• Encourage the primary cooperatives to allot a seat in the
Board for Youth Representative that will bring the goals
and plans of the youth sector in the leadership of the
cooperative
• Integration/inclusion of youth development program in the
Cooperative Development Plan in the cooperatives and
local government units

5. • Create an enabling Policy or Circular recognizing
Cooperatives as a mechanism in the development of the
PWDs and Senior Citizens Sector
• Establishment of program/project by the CDA
incorporating the needs and concerns of the PWDs and
Senior Citizens cooperatives in this Congress
• CDA will take the lead in ensuring that PWD and Senior
Citizens Agenda be included in the General Cooperative
Framework of Development
• CDA to issue a Memorandum mandating a percentage
allotment in the provision of Community Development
Fund (CDF) to support the programs, projects, activities
• Formulate appropriate models to enhance governance
and succession planning for cooperative, including a
framework of operation manual

6. • Formulate appropriate standards for IPs and Muslim
cooperatives
• Review of standards in SCA, COOP-PESOS and PISO
• Appropriateness of standards between large, medium,
small and micro cooperatives and every types of
cooperatives
• “Advocating Peace in Mindanao through Cooperativism” by
co-owning the power through cooperative management of
Agus Pulangi Hydroelectric Complex and other programs to
promote sustainable peace in the country
• Formulate capacity-building program to address the
training needs of officers and employees of the cooperative
• Provision of subsidy on trainings and financial audit

7. • Enabling law for stabilization fund
• Passage of Cooperative Banking Law
• Passage of significant laws and policies. These include but
not limited to 1) the creation of Department of Housing
and Urban Development; 2) Continue the implementation
of Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter Finance Act
(CISFA); 3) establish a national land use framework that will
define the indicative priorities for land utilization and
allocation; and 4) formulation of national planning and
zoning guidelines and standards, to guide LGUs in the
formulation of their comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP)
• Enabling law, Policy or Circular recognizing Cooperatives in
the Educational System
• Support the passage of Islamic Banking Law

8. • Preferential treatment to cooperatives
• For cooperatives to stand and unite to fight for its rights
and benefits as provided by the constitution and law
• Intensify concerted and organized efforts to
institutionalize value chain mechanisms with the end
view of cooperative product marketability in both the
national, ASEAN and global markets
• Advocacy for the increased awareness of legislators and
policy makers on the impact and potential of
cooperatives in the local and national economy with the
objective of increasing legislative and policy support, and
the provision of an legal and policy environment
conducive to the development of cooperatives
• Increasing the CDA Budget

9. • LGU-CDA-NGA (DA, DAR, other agencies). Partnership in
the following areas of endeavour for agricultural
cooperatives:
a. Capacity Building
b. Technical Support Services
c. Marketing
d. Access to Funds
e. Crop Insurance
f. Social Protection
g. Production Cost Mitigating Measures
h. Provision of Post Harvest Facilities and
Cooperative Service Facilities
i. Appropriate and sustainable technology support in
connection with climate disturbances
j. Implementation of measures against rice,
vegetable and meat smuggling;

10. • Provide a conducive and enabling policy environment to address
the needs of ARCs, specifically by the following government
agencies and instrumentalities of the government:
a. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)
b. Cooperative Development Authority (CDA)
c. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
d. Landbank of the Philippines (LBP)
e. Land Registration Authority (LRA) / Register of Deeds (RD)
f. Insurance Commission (IC) / Philippine Crop Insurance
Corporation (PCIC)
• Tourism promotion (i.e. Travel and tour services, cooperative
media)
• Cooperativization of tourism services (i.e. Tourist guides , HR
workers with labor service coops, tourism transport with
transport cooperatives)

11. • For the big cooperatives to venture in tourism to finance and
support tourism investments needs;
• Work for preservation of cultural heritage and the environment
to attract more tourists
• Provide a conducive and enabling policy environment to address
the housing needs of Filipino families. The achievement of the
target set under the Millenium Developmet Goals should be
pushed by instrumentalities of the government and to consider
Housing Cooperatives as a vehicle of achieving such target
• Adopt a value-chain approach in the production, processing, and
marketing of its products and services
• Encourage the formation of laboratory cooperatives in schools
and youth cooperatives and enhance their entrepreneurship
skills
• Encourage the formation of National Association of Junior
Cooperators or an equivalent

12. • Request the President of the Republic of the Philippines to sign
the proposed amendment of RA 9442
• Creation of Committees among government agencies
spearheaded by the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA)
that will meet on a regular basis to monitor the full
implementations of the laws concerning the said sector
• Encourage the Labor Service Cooperative to deal with private
companies who are PWD and elderly friendly and mandate that
at least 1% of their deployed are PWD and elderly
• Massive information dissemination to Local Government officials
on the autonomy and independence and recognition of
cooperatives as a legitimate non-government organization
• Translate the laws, rules and regulations to vernacular language

13. • Strengthen functional and organization integrative linkage to
build their economies of scale and entrepreneurial capacity
• Strengthen and capacitate the federation among PWDs and
Senior Citizens cooperatives that will provide services for their
primary affiliates that include but not limited to: a) provide
working capital for the livelihood activities of its affiliate
primary cooperatives, b) marketing of products and services, c)
technical assistance for the preparation of mandatory reports
to be submitted to CDA, d) mandatory trainings (as registered
training provider to CDA) among others, e) support services
such as rehabilitation, health care, making the offices of
cooperative physically accessible and among others

14. • BIR: Cooperative taxation issues (uniform implementation of
RDOs, issuance and renewal of CTEs)
• BSP: to allow Coop Banks to engage in Money Transfer Business
and to make the employees of Coop Banks to become
Stockholders
• DOTC: CDA take into consider the facilitation of the national plans
and coordinate with the concerned government agencies taking
into account a transport cooperative development program to
which fund may be taken from the Road User’s Tax; additional
franchise at least to the existing ones to increase the coop’s
capitalization and to comply with the required owning of units;
strict implementation of the preferential treatment by LGUs and
national government agencies as stated in the RA9520; and
organized procedures and clear policy on functions of OTC and
CDA when it comes to registration, training and reportorial
requirements. A joint policy is recommended since there are
overlapping of polices and requirements

15. • DPWH/DA/DTI/DOST: Linkage to concern government
agencies to improve the farm to market road, provision of pre
and post-harvest facilities and other equipment to increase
the value of cooperatives’ products and market access, local
and international
• NCIP: to intervene, monitor and safeguard the IPs ancestral
domain
• JMEC: Maximize as instrument to facilitate the needed
technical and consultative suppport from the government