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Cooperatives in Phil Past, Present, Future

This document discusses cooperatives in the Philippines and some of the challenges they face. It notes that cooperatives were established to uplift people's lives but now face pressures to operate like businesses. Laws support cooperatives but societies expect them to address real problems. Cooperatives will need to demonstrate their social accountability as a distinctive model and work together as a system to balance economic and social goals while maintaining cooperative identity.

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Cooperatives in Phil Past, Present, Future

This document discusses cooperatives in the Philippines and some of the challenges they face. It notes that cooperatives were established to uplift people's lives but now face pressures to operate like businesses. Laws support cooperatives but societies expect them to address real problems. Cooperatives will need to demonstrate their social accountability as a distinctive model and work together as a system to balance economic and social goals while maintaining cooperative identity.

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CO-OPERATIVES

IN THE PHILIPPINES

BELIEFS are convictions that


we hold to be true regarding
people, concepts or things

BELIEF
COOPERATIVISM
IS A

CAUSE

...

CAUSE

...

CAUSE

...

CAUSE

MEANS: Co-operatives
END: Uplift the lives of
PEOPLE (members,
community, nation)

BELIEF

COOPERATIVISM
IS

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

...

Entrepreneurship

...

Entrepreneurship

...

Entrepreneurship

From servant leadership


to professional leadership

Co-operatives
have become
just one of those
market players,
hardly distinguished
from their
competitors

Co-operative scholars, managers, staff,


board members and members all of us
are surrounded by currently dominant
investor-owned business and our thinking,
even the language we use, is shaped by
that environment.
AJ Robb, JH Smith, JT Webb
Co-operative Capital:
What It Is and Why Our World Needs It

PRESSURE
for CHANGE
from outside
coop system

Society

Laws

(Expectations)

It is the declared policy of the State to foster the


creation and growth of cooperatives as a practical
vehicle for promoting self-reliance and harnessing
people power towards the attainment of economic
development and social justice.
Chapter 1, Article 2, RA 9520

Societal Expectations
How are co-operatives
perceived or understood
by the public?

Are they contributing


to solving the real
problems of society?

Co-operatives will
be made to
account for their
special status
under the law
SOCIAL
ACCOUNTABILITY

BELIEF

COOPERATIVISM
IS

SOCIAL
ACCOUNTABILITY

Its not one cooperative that


will be made to account; it will
be co-operatives as a whole.

The Bundon Group


A Framework for Analysis

It is important for co-operatives themselves


to resist any tendency to mimic investor-owned
enterprises in operational, management and
governance practices which do not reflect the
distinctiveness of co-operatives..
ICA Blueprint for Co-operative Decade

Challenge

Social
Accountability

Back to basics
Rebalancing
- economic & social
- associational & enterprise needs
- personal & institutional values
Coop identity; coop difference

Co-operatives cannot effectively meet


these challenges from outside by acting
ALONE; they can only do so by working
together as a group, as a SYSTEM.

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