AWCF NEW WEBSITE Please visit our new website at http://www.coopwomen.org/awcfcms/ more >> AWCF-SCC gender equality project started AWCF has officially launched the three-year Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC)-funded “Promoting Gender Equality Among Co-operatives in the Philippines” Project with three regional orientation meetings attended by key leaders and managers of the 15 participating co-operative organizations. more >> Updates on the second round AWCF-FK exchange project AWCF and its project partners met in Hanoi, Vietnam last March 9-11, 2010 for the Midterm Review Meeting to appraise the progress of the second round of the “Capacity-Building for Gender and Co-operatives in Asia” Project funded under the South-South Exchange Programme of Fredskorpset (FK) Norway. more >> Study Visits on Microfinance, Enterprise, and Business Development Addressing poverty reduction requires a multi-dimensional perspective and approach as it involves access to basic services, capacity-building initiatives, entrepreneurship skills training, empowerment of women and men, and financial interventions, to name a few. more >> SCC Programme Meetings with Partner Organizations The Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC) has officially started the implementation of its latest Philippine programme for 2010-2012 on “Advancing Civic Capacities for Effective and Sustainable Services to the Poor” (ACCESS to the Poor Programme), which has funding support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). more >> Second batch of AWCF-FK exchange participants deployed AWCF and its six member-organizations have started hosting eight young professionals, five women and three men, for the second round of the Project “Capacity-Building for Gender and Co-operatives in Asia” as part of the South-South Exchange Programme of Fredskorpset (FK) Norway. more >> ‘Gender Equality in Co-operatives’ Project Concluded AWCF has completed the Project “Development of Gender Equality (GE) in Co-operatives in the Philippines” funded by the Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC) with the conduct of a trainers training and a seminar for co-operatives in Northern Luzon. more >> Alumni Workshop for it@coops Project AWCF, with funding support from InWEnt-Capacity Building International, Germany, successfully held the “Alumni Workshop for Partners and Participants of the Joint Training Programme it@coops” last October 19-24, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.  more >>