Youth Development

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT


“We have to invest in young people and work with them, work for them.”  

Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

NATCCO Network advocates developing the young and including them in the co-operative for succession and to ensure long-term sustainability.

Through the Aflatoun Program, NATCCO’s flagship program for children and youth, NATCCO established itself as a formidable figure in financial education and leadership for young people.  As part of the global Aflatoun network, NATCCO has one of the unique models in implementation; blending in curriculum integration in schools and providing child-friendly savings accounts through cooperative partnerships.  

Aflatoun now involves:

  • 152 Partner Cooperatives

  • 1,467 Schools

  • 287,810 active savers

  • 7,581 teachers trained

  • P174 Million savings

  • 92 provinces and key cities

NATCCO joined the Technical Working Group for the Financial Education Implementation for the integration of Financial Literacy Education into the Philippine K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum.   Aflatoun’s teaching guides from Grades 1 to 8 and the Aflateen Manual was the DepEd’s resource in developing the policy.  

NATCCO partnered with the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) to implement Aflatoun in the three poorest provinces of the country:  Siquijor, Negros Oriental, and Northern Samar.  The program has successfully developed 3,000 children and youth to become active cooperators and future entrepeneurs.  

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas recognized NATCCO as a stakeholder in the Financial Education Stakeholders’ Expo in November.  NATCCO’s CEO, Sylvia O. Paraguya  shared about Financial Education programs of NATCCO and how the organization exemplified the cooperative principle of holistic, continuous education for its members.  The annual expo aimed to be a centerpiece event for the financial education programs in the country; and serve as a platform for building an organized network of advocates imbued with collective responsibility for sustainable and effective financial education programs

 In November, the Asia Regional Meeting and Asia Social and Financial Education Summit in Zhuhai, China highlighted NATCCO’s efforts in the nationwide scale up of the Aflatoun Model.  Aflatoun International believes that NATCCO’s social franchise model had been one of the effective models to bring in more partners and empower them to become local champions.   

In the Asia Pacific Cooperative Development Conference (ACPDC) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Lasalette Gumban, former Unit Head of the Children and Youth Program presented in the Multi-Stakeholders Session, 'Synergizing Coop and CSO priorities - Case of NATCCO Implementation of the Financial Literacy Program in the Philippines.

NATCCO hosted the ICA-AP Youth Congress 2018 in Lamac MPC’s resort in Cebu Province. More than a hundred youth leaders across Asia and the Pacific were immersed in leadership roles, agri-enterprises, and community service.  

The Bi-Annual National Youth Congress witnessed a gathering of more than 130 youth leaders across the country—the biggest youth delegation in recent years.  This significant rise of youth delegates is an inspiring sign that co-ops are beginning to recognize the value of investing in young people and how to meaningfully work with them and work for them.  


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Gender & Development

Around half of the world’s population are women.  Leaving them out means half the population cannot contribute to efforts in building a better world. Since the 1990s, the NATCCO Network has endeavored to mainstream Gender Equality one of the keys to development.  By 2013, with inputs from the NATCCO Network and the co-op sector at large, the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) released the Social Audit Guidelines (MC 2013-16 and later the MC 2018-01) and the Guidelines on Mainstreaming Gender & Development (MC 2013-22 and later the MC 2017-04).   The NATCCO Network continues to mainstream Gender Equality through cooperatives. In April 2018, 113 women and men representing primary co-ops of the NATCCO Network gathered at the 2018 Gender Congress and made the call to co-ops, the CDA, and the NATCCO Board to: Implement the Guidelines in Mainstreaming Gender & Development (GAD) Program CDA MC 2013-22 Assess progress of Gender Equality (GE) mainstreaming under CDA MC No. 2017-04; Craft/review, develop, improve, implement, and evaluate their GAD policies to catalyze and effect GAD mainstreaming and equality; Integrate gender concerns in their vision and mission statements, by-laws, policies, strategies, programs, plans and projects;  Provide women access to equal opportunities in education and development interventions;  ‘Manualize’ best practices on gender program implementation; Establish a standard sex-disaggregation template/format for data collection and collation of information. Develop  training modules, initiate, organize and accredit pools of GAD Trainers by region NATCCO Board to organize an annual gathering of Gender Committee Chairpersons and GAD Focal persons for capacitate, monitor GAD programs, and share best practices

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