This column of your son [brother perhaps] will be tackling on life’s blessings and things that are of interest to the community. It will also focus on matters involving the socio-economic boosters—cooperatives.
After days of applying process of elimination among several choices of column titles, I finally arrived with “The sCO-OPer” that is timely and fitting to my present career as cooperative development worker. The title literally refers to a person who covers and shares stories obtained from an experience or an immediate source, of course with emphasis on the capitalized and fenced word.
Please allow me to give a little scoop of this columnist who belongs to the Karao tribe. My writing chronicles started with school publications until I joined a Barangay Council as secretary where we produced a local news-magazine.
This boy is your typical Igorot son who eagerly scouted for a living after graduation. I was employed as a classroom facilitator that lasted for six years. Giving up my teaching loads three years ago was one of the toughest decisions I made.
Surprisingly, I did not know that this new calling of serving the cooperative movement still requires teaching methods, approaches, strategies and techniques. Conversing with the co-op sector is like a classroom that needs a facilitator and students among others in order for learning process to take place.
While working in a local government unit, I met the semantic wiz who inspired me not to stop writing [reading, too]. Thank you GTB and Sunstar editorial staff for the break, working with your paper.
I invite and encourage cooperatives in the region to contact this paper or this byline for announcements or information needed by its members or other entities for possible inclusion in this column. I am modestly hoping for your support on my journey in this paper. Kekchowen koy inolay a soporta yo.
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The online submission of Co-op Annual Progress Report (CAPR) just concluded last April 30. Congratulations for those coops that complied with the reportorial requirements submission.
For the co-op compliance officers, the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) is still accepting submission of CAPR. Just login to the authority’s website and fill-in the CAPR electronic form and print it out in two copies. Deliver the printed copies to CDA on or before five days after successfully accomplishing the online submission.
For micro co-ops, the documentary attachments are audited financial statement and list of officers and mandatory trainings undertaken. The list must include all officers with or without trainings based on the CAPR form.
Meanwhile, small, medium and large co-ops are mandated to attach its social audit report; governance and management audit report with semi-annual reports on mediation-conciliation; audited financial statements and; List of officers and mandatory trainings undertaken which must also include all officers and committee members with or without trainings.
The authority shall only give the coop’s Certificate of Compliance upon completing the said requirements.ts1