A group photo of all participants the Forum.
ICA-AP in partnership with the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance and the Institute for Organic Agricultural Economics organized the 2nd Asia Pacific Cooperative Registrars’ Forum on Creating Enabling Legal Framework and Policies to Promote Sustainable Development of Cooperatives in the 21stCentury, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Forum was co-funded by the ICA-EU Partnership on Cooperatives in Development (#Coops4Dev).
The 2nd Forum was organized to focus on the 21st century challenges relating to food security, nature of work and employment, financial inclusion, economic growth, gender equality & equity, climate change, and freedom of association. The rapid economic and social changes as well as crises during the last decade have prompted the need to think beyond ‘business as usual.’ While cooperatives have shown their resilience, there is need to reinvent, remodel and reorganize to stay relevant to members and society at large. In order to do so, there is need for conducive and enabling legal and policy frameworks to increase the ease with which cooperative business is done in Asia-Pacific. While serving as a platform of exchange on strategic issues, the Forum aimed to build consensus for collaboration among the stakeholders. It brought together Registrars and regulators concerned with the promotion and development of cooperatives; leaders and managers of cooperatives from the Asia-Pacific region; and other stakeholders to discuss matters pertaining to legislation, policies and regulations that complement existing laws.
The complete Report from the Forum can be accessed here
