Field Document 16

Management Strategies Towards a Viable Seaweed Cooperative Enterprise in Sorsogon, Philippines

SEAWEED PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
PHI/89/004

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VENUS P. OROGO
National Consultant Cooperative Management

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The Project Area: Eastern Sorsogon and Sorsogon Bay

Abstract

This Guide is developed as a practical reference for cooperative leaders of the PHI/89/004 project beneficiaries in the implementation and management of a Seaweed Cooperative Enterprise that will provide and generate economic and business activities for the community and cooperative.

This document contains PHI/89/004 Project background, cooperative development goals and objectives, strategies, structural requirements, organizational structure and resource requirements.

Seaweed Production Development Project
BUREAU OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC RESOURCES
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Manila, Philippines
February 1994

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1. Introduction

2. Importance of Cooperatives

2.1 Classification of Cooperatives

2.2 Basic Operating Structure

3. Project Cooperators

4. Framework for PHI/89/004 Beneficiaries

4.1 Methodology

4.2 Implementation Activities

4.2.1 Establishment of Demo Farms and Technical Training Activities

4.2.2 Networking Activities

4.3 Increased Economic Size Farms and Federating Cooperatives

5. Recommended Strategies