Strategic Objectives

• Enhance participation within membership and governance to a new level
  • Invite more ICA membership from the Middle-East, Central Asia, Mekong-Delta, and in the Pacific sub-regions.
  • Set up the Committees in Fishery, Forestry (2F) in rural area; and Health and Housing (2H) in urban area
  • Study on countries’ by-laws of primary cooperatives, and to draw a model by-law with a view to ensure the financial sustainability of cooperatives and participatory governance and decision-making of members, especially for women and youth.

• Position co-operatives as builders of sustainability
  • Promotion of the paradigm and practices of ‘Ethical Consumerism’ of consumers and ‘Ethical Production’ of producers.
  • Promotion of the ‘Cooperative trade’ strategically by the modes of ‘Fairtrade’ and ‘B to B trade platform’ through Internet
  • Promotion of the technical exchanges and assistances in IT technology by way of workshop and training
  • Transformation of the technical and managerial know-how, especially in the business areas of ‘Resource Recycling’ and ‘ Renewable Energy’ businesses
  • Promotion of the cultural exchanges of youth cooperators

• Build the co-operative message and secure the co-operative identity
  • Collection and dissemination of the ‘Cooperative Story’ in creating public awareness on cooperative and its business model
  • Promote and deliver ‘.coop’ domain and to create influential messages and media advocacies on cooperative and its business model
  • Institutionalization of the ‘Cooperative Social Audit’ with a view to and as a mean to promote and protect the Cooperative Identity

• Ensure supportive legal frameworks for co-operative growth
  • Organize the “Cooperative Ministers’ Conference” as the useful platform for enabling policy and legal environment and provision, especially in reiterating the ‘Autonomy and Independence’ principle for cooperatives in the Region
  • Organize a ‘Parliaments’ Network’ with ‘Cooperative-minded Parliament Members
  • Organize an independent Conference instrument with national Registry Agencies in order to deal with such issues on cooperative inclusions in the business opportunity, especially in the area of new cooperative business, and for sound-tuning between cooperative laws and commercial laws and between cooperative law and government policy provisions

• Secure reliable co-operative capital while guaranteeing member control

• Encouraging and enforcing merger of primary cooperatives as countries’ norm, and for strategic amalgamation alliance of township cooperatives for strong capabilities by way of introducing best practices and model cases
• Provide technical assistance and consultation to Member countries on cooperative law and regulations on cooperative banking and insurance.