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1. General Information
1. Name of
Organization
2. Office Address
3. Email Address
4. Contact
Number
5. Date
established
6. Brief
Organizational
Profile
7. Board of
Trustees
8. Contact
Person/s
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9. Project
Timeframe
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2014 2016
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10. Categories to
be addressed by
application
(please check
one or more)
CATEGORIES
Economic Growth
Governance
Trafficking of Persons
Education
Biodiversity Conservation
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3.2 Problem/s to be addressed (150 words maximum) need to edit more than
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Insufficient resources to run its operation. To grow the business with limited access to capital and
resources presents a big challenge. Due to its smallness of assets, these cooperatives are
considered to be non-bankable and risky. Obtaining capital is hard to obtain.
Mismanagement. In the absence of professional cooperative managers like in most big coops, a
small cooperative is usually run by volunteers who are usually not competent in management.
Usually, these volunteers run the cooperative business by the ear or by hit or miss. With no
technical training on management, most small coops lacks the much needed structures like
systems and procedures even in its simplest form in terms of coop administration, human
resources, financial and market info.
Limited cooperative services to provide to members. More often than not, most small
cooperatives provide credit and consumer services to its poor member in a limited manner. The
challenge is for coops to finance primary economic activities of members that require bigger
funding like rice production or any agribusiness, carinderia or sari-sari store operation. Most
small cooperatives have limited bench or talents that could operate the organization.
cooperatives (board members, committees, management and staff), zeroing on small business
operations and stability factors. Included courses to be provided are the CDA mandated course
for coops by accredited trainers from MSCB and other topics that will foster innovations,
customer satisfaction and organizational improvements. Also, technical assistance in the form of
computer education/computerization shall form part of this component. Other creative forms of
learning will be offered to them to increase their knowledge, commitment and inspiration.
b. Business Development: This provides access to credit resources to be used in the operations
and expansion of it community based businesses/coop activities at a price affordable and under
the terms and conditions fitted to their size and commensurate to the risk involve. This also
includes support mechanism in the form of assistance of marketing, livelihood formation/training,
accounts monitoring, capital formation, savings mobilization, access to credit and other technical
assistance.
c. Launching of Coop Hero Awards: At the end of the project (and hopefully annually thereafter), the
most improved small cooperatives shall be recognized and awarded as positive reinforcements.
There are small coops that started as zero and later become heroes after the intervention, the
project shall be awarding most improved coops and best coops among the its beneficiaries
(like the LBPs Gawad Pitak Award).
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d. Social Marketing and Advocacy: This includes cooperative exchange program, placement of
local volunteers and fielding of managers and other experts in cooperative management, as well
as external auditing. Advocacy for cooperative development and helping small coops in their
operations shall be campaigned in the coop movement. Materials/publication shall be published
on a regular basis and other information shall be available in the internet and website.
3.4 Planned activities and outputs (maximum of 10 rows, 1 activity per row;
ex. onsite capacity building; detailed steps for each set of activities are not
required at the this stage)
Proposed Activities
1. Capacity Building activities
Strategic Planning
On-site training on coop operations/
clinicking
CDA Mandated Trainings
Learning Visits
Computerization & Training
Communication Training
2. Business/Livelihood Development
Small capital grant to livelihood projects
Livelihood trainings
Marketing Assistance
Supervised lending/access to credit
3. Capital Formation Financing
Small capital/equity grant to cooperatives
4. Upgrading of office systems
Development of computer applications
designed for small cooperatives
(accounting, loans apps)
Distribution of Computer and printer
5. Social marketing/advocacy for the small coops
among big coops/urban based coops
Conduct/Sponsorship of trade fairs during
coop month celebrations and other
auspicious dates
Networking
6. Video-documentation of the micro-coops
beneficiaries
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Expected Outputs
Software/applications
Manual of operation
Computerized accounting, etc
Survey on usefulness
Higher profit of coops
Better financial performance
Increase sales
Videos
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Criteria
Partnership building
Prizes
Website
Regular periodicals
3.5 Describe what makes your concept unique and innovative and how its
expected outputs can achieve the anticipated outcomes or required
indicators (250 words maximum)
It is not only through, neither eating of fish nor teaching them how to fish but the project also
aims to nurture the sea and ocean where fishes grow.
Small cooperatives are made up of small people who are in need of incentives to continue with
their livelihood activities like farming, fishing, selling, etc., in order to support themselves and their
families. With little resources to put into their small businesses, these poor people will rely on the
help of cooperatives to augment the daily needs of their economic activities and other
requirements.
Small cooperatives support the dreams of the poor people to have a better life and to get out of the
dehumanizing appearance of poverty. Partnering with an organized entity will to sustain the
aspirations of poor members and their communities for better life, and uphold dignity of people.
To be submitted to:
Chief of Party
Phil-Am Fund, Gerry Roxas Foundation
18th Floor, Aurora Towers, Amanita Centre, Quezon City
Email: philamfund@gerryroxasfoundation.org
Usaid.philamfund@gmail.com
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