NATCCOGender and

Development

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Divina QuemiChairperson

NATCCO Social Performance-Gender Equity (SP-GE) Committee

NATCCO’s GAD PROGRAM

equal opportunities for all -- an environment where both women and men can realize their full potential –

This is the NATCCO Gender and Development (GAD) Program

in a nutshell

Then …

GAD started in the 1990s as a component of a Canadian-assisted Phil. Coop Dev’t. Assistance Program (PCODAP).

Then, the primary aim was to increase women participation in the NATCCO leadership.

Throughout the years…

1990s •NATCCO, together with other Asian co-op organizations, organized the Asian Women in Co-op Development Forum (AWCF); •continuing capability-building activities for gender advocates provided to develop skills on communication, enterprises, info technology, transformative leadership;•GST Manual developed by NATCCO

Throughout the years…

• 2000 - GA gender-related resolutions approved: allocation for GAD of at least 5% from the Coop Educational Trust Fund (CETF) in the primary, secondary and NATCCO levels;

• amendment of the NATCCO bylaws to provide one seat in the NATCCO BOD for a woman representative, who is to be

elected at large;

Throughout the years… 2004 - the first woman BOD chairperson was elected. NATCCO bylaws amended to recognize one woman

representative chosen by Women's Congress to occupy one seat in the BOD.

Women's leadership participation rate increased to around 42%, a far increase from 33% of the BOD of co-ops surveyed in 1991; Partnerships with various organizations established – AWCF, International Co-op Alliance – Asia- Pacific , National Commission on Women, Women & Development Network, Canadian Co-op Asso.

Throughout the years… 2009- NATCCO hosted the ICA-AP Women’s WS on Enhancing Role of Women in Business with delegates from 6 Asian countries

NATCCO and member-coops participated in AWCF -SCC design of gender-sensitivity tool for co-ops

Gender Sensitivity Trainings conducted for NCR co-ops , Barbaza Multi-Purpose Coop Seminar on Gender-Fairness in the Workplace for NCR co-ops

Throughout the years…

• Continuous sending of women coop leaders, male gender advocates and members of the NATCCO Women's Committee to capability-building activities:

> CCA Women Mentoring Program; > ICA-AP Training for Coop Women, > ACCU Training of Trainors for Co-op Women in Decision-Making > Asia-Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15,

Throughout the years…

conceptualized/coordinated conduct of Dinner for a Cause fund-raising project for newly- organized coop organized by former overseas performing artists (OPAs) in Japan; proceeds used as educational assistance to Japino children (with DAWN)

Throughout the years… 2010 - DID-Proxfin-NATCCO Research Project on Gender Equity and Social Performance (GE-SP) DID-Proxfin worked with NATCCO and 4 primary co-ops – Sta. Cruz Development Co-op, (SACDECO,Tubao Credit Coop,St. Martin of Tours MPC, and MICOOP -Mindoro Occ. to come up with a Social Audit Tool specifying indicators that would gauge social performance & gender equity of coops and to identify strategies to integrate social performance management (SPM) in NATCCO and the coops

Throughout the years… Gender Sensitivity trainings done in 3 cooperatives

(Northern Samar Devlopment Workers Community Co-op, San Dionisio Credit Co-op, and MICOOP (Northern Luzon and C. Luzon Clusters). Gender-Fairness in the Work Place Seminar held in

Cebu City with 7 co-ops 2010 NATCCO Gender Congress held in April 2010

attended by 53 participants from different co-ops; Main topic was “Gender and Climate Change.”

Throughout the years… Project proposals developed and sent to potential funders: 1) Eco-Friendly Technology and Family Health Care Project in Northern Samar 2) Social Performance Start-Up Project in the NATCCO

Network Seminar on Anti- Domestic Violence Against Women and Their

Children (with ASSIST)- held in Cebu, Visayas, (Note:2 ETCG trainers as pax)

Gender-Sensitivity Issues discussed with NATCCO BOD (Difference bet. Gender and Sex, gender

issues, factors affecting gender inequality)

Throughout the years…• the new Cooperative Code of the Philippines

(R.A. 9520) requires all coops to undergo social audit

• 2012, NATCCO’s proposal submitted to MFC-Poland on Social Performance Management Start-Up Project for Networks was approved.

Throughout the years…Gender Congress held in May with the theme “Putting the SOCIAL in Performance”. •highlighted the uniqueness of coops from other financial service providers, & featured the best practices of ff. coops on social performance: Paglaum MPC; San Dionisio Credit Coop and Barbaza MPC .•Resolutions passed which were also approved by the GA – 1)formation of the Social Performance-GE Committee in NATCCO and its member-coops; and 2) allotment of funds for its activities.

Now…• Globally, financial providers are converging and

promoting the observance of Universal Standards on Social Performance (USSP) and encouraging transparency by posting social performance of financial providers on the internet.

NATCCO promotes USSP in the Philippine coops.

Among the social indicators we are pushing is the inclusion of gender equity in the USSP and in the social audit tool being developed by the Cooperative Development Authority.

Now…

• Elected as new women’s representative to the Board is Ms. Divine Quemi, from Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives (NSCC). She is also elected Vice Chair of the ICA-Asia Pacific Women’s Committee in November. Elected Chairperson was Japan’s Hitomi Tanaka. Ms. Quemi reported that the ICA-AP Women’s Committee will push for entrepreneurship development of women in Asia.

Our dream... our goal......a world where all women and men canreach their full potentials – regardless ofgender and other limitations...

GAD in the locality… NSCC

Empowering women

Provides livelihood/income generating activities from capital to marketing since 1992. Provides free seminar on women’s legal rights Provides free seminar on women‘s health Provides free consultation check-up and pap smear sessions.

NSCC Promotes Gender Equality to other Cooperatives Integration of Gender Equality in all training program Assist other coops to create Gender program in their respective coops

NSCC Promotes Gender Equality to the Farmers Integration of Gender Equality in the Farmer Entrepreneurship Program (FEP)

NSCC Promotes Gender Equality to the Children/Minors Integration of Gender Equality in the Aflatoun Child Social and Financial Education

NSCC realization… Creation of Gender Committee Allocation of 30% representation of women to the board. Regional Cooperative Gender Summit on October 17-18, 2011Integration of Gender Equality in the Pre-membership and Business Dialogue with members Creation of Gender Pool of trainers Creation of Gender Equality ManualConduct of Gender Congress every 2 years. Creation of Gender Equality plan with budget

Video PresentationGender (Mainstreaming).wmv

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