NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE OF CDA CHAIRMAN EMMANUEL M. SANTIAGUEL, Ph.D.
Happy New Me!!! My greetings to our Administrators, our Regional Directors and Department Heads, our Management Team, partner-employees of CDA - fellow public servants….. Wishing you all a Prosperous New Year! (Truth be told, I felt like my feet have grown wings. I am excited to come to office and see the beautiful people of CDA today, I wonder why?) Well, we had a busy 2011. We have encountered lots of challenges, we had been through many issues and controversies, and we had introduced many changes for the good of our employees and beloved CDA. Looking back, I ... | Read Full Post >>
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed year 2012 as the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF COOPERATIVES (IYC) thru Resolution 64/136, which encourages all member States and all relevant stakeholders to take advantage of the IYC to promote cooperatives, to raise public awareness of the contribution of cooperatives to social and economic development and promote the formation and growth of cooperatives. | Read Full Post >>
"What if the New President Fails?" This question is indeed "an awesome food for thought!" That his failure is not his alone but more so of the Filipino people, we should not allow him to fail. It is horrible even to contemplate of failure knowing that the culture of poverty has now engulfed our people as the Philippines has now the most prevalent incidence of poverty in East Asia. His failure means that a few elite will continue to have much too much and the many who are poor .... | Read Full Post >>
EXPANSION OF COOPERATIVE MEMBERSHIP on (1st Agenda). Means more people will participate and benefit in development processes and thereby, be in the mainstream of development. This is based on the truism that people's participation is the best guarantee of social justice and sustainability. Without people's participation, all the outpourings of development programs will just be palliatives and cannot be the real solution. With some 20 million people as envisioned, who will give high adherence to the time-honored and universally-accepted principles of participation and ... | Read Full Post >>
Adopting the theme, "Gaining headways in cooperative development through the building of strong ... more...
On 14 March 2011, Chair Santiaguel called a national convergence to revisit and fine-tune the PCMTDP ... more...
The CDA GAWAD PARANGAL is one of the banner programs of the Cooperative Development Authority. This is , ... more...
