Lecture Presentation Trainers Training for La Union CDOs in partnership with the Provincial Government of La Union

1. Why
Cooperative?
J.B. Bitonio
Lecture/Presentation Trainers Training for the La Union CDOs
Project of the Provincial Government of La Union
September 24-26, 2012

2. A cooperative is a
member-owned and
controlled business
that operates for the
mutual benefit of its
members

3. Members who
use their services
or purchase their
products

4. A Cooperatives promote the
fullest possible participation
in the economic and social
development of all people
and are a major economic
force in developed
countries and a powerful
business model in
developing ones

5. The Co-operative Movement
brings together over one billion
people around the world.
The United Nations estimated
in 1994 that the livelihood of
nearly 3 billion people, or
half of the world's population,
was made secure by co-
operative enterprise. These
enterprises continue to play
significant economic and social
roles in their communities.
United States with 305.6 million members.

6. 75.8 million
160.8 million
97.6 million
7.29 million
40.6 million

7. 30 %
97.6 million The country's poverty
incidence is at roughly
30 percent, which means
about a third of the
nearly 100 million
Filipinos subsist on less
40.6 million than two U.S. dollars a
day.

8. Region I. Coordination Board
(NSCB) Statwatch data, it has a
total population of
4,546,789. Of the stated
population count
Region I cooperative
membership
1,423,124 as of
July 2012

9. Co-ops serve a range of
sectors, including housing,
food, worker, agriculture,
service, financial, youth
and community.

10. The Philippines has been in a boom and
bust cycle for several decades now. We
have failed to achieve the necessary
GDP growths to bring us to developed
nation status relative to other East Asian
nations (i.e., 8 percent growth of South
Korea in the last 50 years and double-
digit growth rates of China in the last 20
years). The best in 19 years we have
achieved is 7.3 percent growth in 2007.
The rest of the decade it has been 3 to
5 percent growth on average
annually, too small to overcome poverty
levels pegged at nearly 1/3 of the nation.
Sen. Pangilinan (2012)

11. Poverty, with all its faces and forms, is our country’s
biggest problem, not because of its drag on the
economy, its effects on the environment, or the
unsightly slums, but because this is simply not the
way people are meant to live. Therefore, all our
causes—education reform, transparency,
infrastructure development, environmental protection,
etc.—must ultimately lead to the uplift of the human
situation of the Filipino poor.
Ramon R. del Rosario Jr (2012).

12. We must together exploit this rare
and great opportunity to move our
country forward and upward
Let us set our differences aside and
focus on what we have in common.
We are but one people, have but
one country and one future, and no
more time to waste.
Ramon R. del Rosario Jr (2012).

13.  Merger
 Consolidation
 Federate
 Branches
 Subsidiaries
 Laboratory Cooperatives