CAEV is a non-government, non-profit organization, set up in 1991 by key officers and staff of the National Institute for Agricultural Planning and Projection (NIAPP). The NIAPP is an agency under Vietnam's Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, which oversees and regulates agricultural co-operatives in the country. Through NIAPP, CAEV aims to respond to the needs of more than 16,340 agricultural co-operatives (as of 1994) and 11 million farm households (as of 2003) in Vietnam.

Established to improve farming practices and increase income of poor farmers, CAEV recruits agronomists, agricultural scientists, skilled technicians, and community workers as volunteers. It provides agricultural extension services to poor farming communities, such as on cartography and geodesy (for field lay-out and parceling of maps); soil sampling and analysis, and land evaluation (for verifying the land's suitability for cultivation); and identification of suitable cropping patterns for each farm household. CAEV also provides technical assistance to its members regarding the practice of VAC combined technique (that is, gardening, fish rearing and livestock breeding in a small scale).

CAEV addresses the needs of agricultural communities with a special focus on agricultural extension and rural development. Women in the agricultural sector in Vietnam are involved in the following activities: setting up mutual help groups, pilot field demonstration, creation of revolving funds to address the lack of production capital, and publication of magazines on agriculture.

CAEV has organized eight co-ops that have become models of genuine co-operatives in Vietnam. Because of this, CAEV has served as a resource to the government as well as to international development agencies in developing genuine co-ops.

CULT is a national organization initiated by the private sector in 1972. CULT brings together more than 1,000 Thai credit co-operative groups, with more than 550,000 individual members, with women comprising more than 60 percent of the membership, as of year 2006. CULT works toward developing a strong and viable credit union (CU) movement in Thailand founded on the values of commitment, honesty, sacrifice, responsibility, sympathy, and trust, to promote self-help and mutual help to achieve human development and peace. Toward this, CULT seeks to develop CUs as the main financial institution in the community. Thus it commits itself to delivering excellent financial services and other services that will respond to both the social and economic needs of the members.

CULT’s programs and activities include education and training, bookkeeping and accounting, dormitory and meeting room services, CU chapters promotion, women and youth development, mutual aid in CU, business enterprise development, information technology, and research and publications.

Since 1998, CULT has been addressing the role and participation of women in co-ops.  In fact, part of its organizational structure is a Gender and Development (GAD) Committee that serves as advisory body on gender concerns to the CULT Board and General Assembly. Meanwhile, CULT’s Women Co-operative Products Development Center (WCPC) helps sustain women co-ops’ initiatives to create and develop products, for instance, through support in marketing and product development and design.

CUPC was registered in 1974 under the Societies Act of Malaysia. Its main objective was to introduce grassroots economic initiatives for the poor in Malaysia, especially the Indian poor. Initially, CUPC engaged in collective farming, consumer bulk buying, and income-generation projects. After the CUPC leaders obtained training on credit unions (CUs) from the Philippines, India, and Canada, CUPC began to promote, organize, coordinate, and consolidate CUs among the unorganized sector in Malaysia. It is a partnership of two major but parallel grassroots-based credit unions in Malaysia, namely, the Koperasi Kredit Pekerja-Pekerja or KKP (Workers' Credit Co-op) in Kuala Lumpur and the Koperasi Kredit Rakyat or KKR (People's Credit Co-op) in Batang Berjuntai. Many of the members of KKP are workers of multinational companies in free trade zones in Kuala Lumpur and mining companies in nearby states. The majority of the members of the KKR, on the other hand, are plantation workers, paddy farmers, and fisherfolks. As of December 2005, CUPC has organized 611 community CUs, with a total membership of 50,470 (female 43.24%). Total shares in these CUs are USD1,893,365 (female 796,747 42.08%).

CUPC’s role as coordinating body is to introduce various education and training programs; design and introduce new service and products; and do public relations and establish international links.

Women Action Committees (WACs) formed in CUs at all levels help women to organize themselves and undergo basic education and training; and to increase their self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Training includes presentation skills, basic bookkeeping, how to conduct meetings, how to write minutes, leading and organizing skills, etc. The WAC has been transformed into the Gender and Development Committee (GAD) Committee, composed of women and selected gender-sensitized men (after gender-sensitivity training).

FORMASI Indonesia is a national network organization that was established in 1987. It was organized by 10 non-government organizations (NGOs) that were concerned with the co-op movement, and in small and medium enterprise (SME) development in Indonesia.

FORMASI started as a Dialogue Forum among its founding members: DEKOPIN (Dewan Koperasi Indonesia or the Indonesia Co-operative Council), and nine other NGOs. The Forum became official with a letter of agreement officially issued by DEKOPIN on February 26, 1986. Later, a baseline survey on co-ops that were not government-sponsored (that is, not KUD [Koperasi Unit Desa] or village co-op, which is supported by the government) and informal co-ops in 14 provinces from January to March 1986 was conducted by the Forum as its first activity. The survey results showed that that there was a demand for a co-op development program directly managed by an NGO.

In its journey, FORMASI has changed its name and form in order to adjust its orientation as an organization. To leverage its bargaining position as a co-op development forum, FORMASI changed its name from Forum Pengembangan Koperasi to Forum Gerakan Pengembangan Koperasi Indonesia (FORMASI Indonesia); and its form through an Excellent General Assembly (Rapat Anggota Luar Biasa) on September 2002. It has transformed into an association, considering that it is a membership-based organization. It currently has 13 NGO member-organizations.

By utilizing volunteer consultants from its member NGOs, FORMASI conducts capacity-building programs for members and even non-member NGOs. These programs include information technology (IT) skills development and training; an entrepreneurial exchange program; and training on gender awareness, gender mainstreaming, and transformative leadership.

FORMASI is engaged in consultancy, education and training, information dissemination and promotion concerning community-based co-op development, gender and development, and the provision of seed capital. The following programs help FORMASI implement and offer these products and services, and fulfill other organizational objectives: transformative leadership; IT; institutional strengthening and development; capacity-strengthening of members; capacity-strengthening and developing the network of the co-ops/pre-co-op organizations; study and advocacy; developing networks with national and international organizations also engaged in co-op development and economic development; information; and consultation.

NATCCO was put up by the private sector in 1977 as the National Association of Training Centers for Cooperatives. Regional co-op education and training centers located in the geographical regions of the country formed NATCCO to serve as their spokesperson, secretariat, and coordinating body. These regional centers were, in turn, started in the 1960s when primary or grassroots co-ops began to federate in order to have structures that would answer their need for co-op education and training. NATCCO came about primarily as a felt need of the regional centers to put up a united national front, as the private sector-initiated co-ops at that time were under threat from the Marcos dictatorship in the 1970s. As the years passed, the grassroots co-ops grew more in number and in their need for assistance from their regional centers and NATCCO. This development compelled the NATCCO network to pursue new directions, and to develop and expand services and programs, apart from the original mandate of education and training. With that came a change in name, as NATCCO took its current name in 1986, and the centers moved on to become total co-op regional development centers (RDCs). 

From the late 1990s to 2002, NATCCO focused on the development of technical tools on financial intermediation and enterprise development, with the RDCs as its principal service providers. In 2002, NATCCO’s General Assembly (GA) passed a resolution to study the restructuring of NATCCO from a three-tiered to a two-tiered structure. The Board of Directors (BOD) thereafter crafted the “Seven-Year Business Plan.” For NATCCO’s transformation, the GA amended the organizational bylaws in 2004, with financial intermediation as NATCCO’s principal focus, and the primary co-ops becoming NATCCO’s direct members. When NATCCO celebrated its twenty-ninth year in 2006, it launched its new vision and mission statements. The revisiting of the NATCCO network’s vision is part of a protracted change process—a transformative journey—that NATCCO decided to pursue in order to maintain and enhance its effectiveness and relevance to its affiliate-co-ops.

As of 2006, NATCCO has a direct membership of 164 primary co-ops. NATCCO sits in the 13^th Philippine Congress through the Coop-NATCCO Party List group.

NATCCO has Financial Services and Allied Services:

Financial Services: Central Fund, eKoopBanker, MICOOP, Western Union facilities

Allied Services: ITECHLINE (information technology), Travel and Tours, Legal Services, Training, Youth, Hostel, Gender. NATCCO also has an Enterprise Development Center—Coopmart, Housing, Health, Funeral Care. It also has its Institute for Co-op Excellence (ICE).  

NATCCO has started its activities for women in 1988, beginning with women in development (WID) concepts, as a component of Canadian-assisted project. Growing concerns on gender and development (GAD) as well as the growth from WID to women and development (WAD) to GAD impelled NATCCO to form the Association of Gender Advocates in Development (AGAD) in December 1994. AGAD was tasked to consolidate NATCCO’s initiatives in GAD across co-ops; coordinate and implement GAD activities; and serve as a pool of resources, experiences, and ideas within NATCCO.

Recently, NATCCO has been holding the Women’s Congress (just before the holding of a NATCCO GA meeting). In this Women’s Congress, there is the election for one representative each from the Philippines’s geographical regions—Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao—to sit in the NATCCO Gender Executive Committee (ExeCom). The election of these representatives is affirmed by the NATCCO GA, to serve a one-year term in the Gender ExeCom. One of them is also elected to sit in the NATCCO Board, representing the women’s sector in co-ops.