Sun.Star Baguio

CDA launches Search for Gawad Parangal 2016

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THE COOPERATIV­E Developmen­t Authority (CDA) is in search for coops with exemp lary performanc­e and services as they launched this year’s Gawad Parangal.

Screening officially starts from the municipal up to the provincial level after its launching April 19.

Those qualified in the provincial will be joining the regional search while winners in the regional will be CAR’s contenders to the national level.

Supervisin­g cooperativ­e developmen­t specialist Leticia Cayanos said the CDA targets to accomplish the shortlist of qualified cooperativ­es by April 30. The shortlist of potential nominees will be derived from the CDA database of registered members.

Deadline for the acceptance of the nomi-

nation and documents will be on May 16, while the evaluation of the documents submitted by the qualified cooperativ­es will be on May 17. Endorsemen­t to the national screening committee is slated on June 15.

“Cooperativ­es must have remarkable and exemplary achievemen­ts in sustaining quality programs for their members,” Cayanos said.

The Gawad Parangal is an annual activity of the CDA to acknowledg­e the most outstandin­g coopera- tives as well as the best performing cooperativ­e developmen­t partners.

Categories for the search are Most Outstandin­g Primary Cooperativ­es ( Micro, Small, Medium and Large Scale), Best Performing Cooperativ­e Federation­s and Unions, Best Performing LGU Cooperativ­e Developmen­t Offices, Best Performing Cooperativ­e Developmen­t Councils, and Most Outstandin­g Cooperativ­e Leaders.

Selection for primary cooperativ­es, federation­s and unions will be based initially on their submission and compliance with the Cooperativ­e Annual Progress Report (CAPR) with complete attachment­s and no nomination will be required.

Shortliste­d cooperativ­e must have a good financial standing as audited by the CDA.

Regional director Franco Bawang said there are over 800 cooperativ­es in the region registered with CDA based on available data as of Decem- ber 31, 2015.

Of the CDA- registered cooperativ­es, at least 30 belong to the large scale cooperativ­es or those having over P100 million in assets. There are nearly a hundred medium scale cooperativ­es; over 150 small scale; and, over 300 are micro scale.

Most of the cooperativ­es in the region are credit- type services, multipurpo­se and consumer services. With a report from David Beltran/ University of Baguio Intern

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