Warm cooperative greetings from your Network!

We cordially to invite you to the 56th Annual General Assembly Meeting (AGM) and National Convention of VICTO National scheduled on May 16-17, 2026 to be held at JPark Island Resort and Waterpark in Mactan, Lapu-lapu City with the theme: “Cooperatives as Catalysts for a Better Future”.

This award seeks to honor an exceptional volunteer leader within the cooperative movement—someone who has exemplified outstanding performance and unwavering dedication in their role as a cooperative leader.

2024 was an exciting and inspiring year for us at VICTO National. Our dedication and hard work have enabled us to serve our member affiliates in providing relevant training and education, consultancy and financial audit services that they need in a most innovative way. This makes VICTO National one of the most in demand cooperative federations in the country. Our unbeatable servicing strategies make us unique and inimitable. Simply, because we focused on diligently integrating the newest business trend approaches, real world learnings, recommending more efficient suitable technology and citing some cooperative best practices. They have respectively strengthened our foothold in the cooperative sector and boosted our servicing capabilities in a cooperative market. This ability to diversify our offering and seize market opportunities has fueled our work desire, attesting to the growing demand for our services.

Tony Martin Award for Leadership Excellence. Named after the Scarborough priest who spent the best years of his life organizing and nurturing co-operatives in the Visayas region, the Tony Martin Leadership Award seeks to honor a co-operator who has demonstrated exemplary performance as a volunteer co-operative leader. To qualify for this award, a leader must exemplify the values of voluntarism and make significant contributions to the promotion and development of cooperativism and its social agenda of freedom, justice, and nationalism.

Fondly known as “Inday,” she is best remembered for founding the Cebu CFI (Court of First Instance) Community Cooperative in 1969—a legacy that continues to benefit Filipinos today.

True to her name, which translates to “hope” in Spanish, she provided thousands of Filipinos with the opportunity for financial empowerment through the cooperative.

While serving as Clerk of Court for the CFI of Cebu, Garcia witnessed the struggles of court workers who were vulnerable to loan sharks.

Today, the Cebu CFI Community Cooperative stands as one of the country’s most successful community cooperatives.

A culture of training and development fosters a positive and supportive work environment, leading to increase engagement and collaboration. Training can also lead to a significant return on investment by improving employee performance, reducing costs and increasing productivity. VICTO National ensures that the Center is crucial for developing skills, improving performance, and fostering a positive work environment, ultimately benefiting both employees and organization by enhancing productivity, engagement and retention. The Center’s core service of education and training has been strengthened by the introduction of new courses and partnerships with a wide variety of new institutions both here and abroad

VICTO National was founded in 1970 by Canadian missionaries called the Scarborough Fathers who started a parish program in Southern Leyte called "Saving Souls the Credit Union Way". Its core service is education and training. It offers the widest variety of courses in the country, ranging from mandatory seminars required by the Co operative Development Authority (CDA) to technical, motivational and specialized trainings including, but not limited to, Technical Trainings, Motivational Seminars, and Specialized Sessions. It has spun off its financing arm called Philippine CoopCentral Fund Federation (PCF). It has also spun off its auditing arm to comply with international standards and regulations. It has a strong consultancy program (from bookkeeping assistance to project development/evaluation and others) availed by clients from government, academe, NGOs and coops. It currently maintains offices in Mindanao, Luzon and the 3 regions of the Visayas plus seminar hauses in Cebu, Tacloban and Iloilo. It has close to 300 coop affiliates with an aggregate asset of at least 40 billion pesos coming from at least a million households.

The management aim is to build remarkable progress to diversify our capabilities and offerings, thereby expanding opportunities and value for our member-affiliates, partner federations and clients. Since that time, we’ve valued the opportunity to continue to connect with many of our stakeholders, visiting their offices around the country. We continue to be inspired by our work providing solutions and outcomes which are having a positive impact in the cooperative sector today and for the future.

A dynamic business approaches for a changing environment

Solutions for a better future Generally, we’re seeing larger, more multifaceted service demands across cooperative sectors aligned to critical cooperative sustainability. Anticipating the most advanced business trends, we’re leveraging the deep experience we’ve gained over decades to solve complex challenges around cooperative governance issues, resource constraints, and technology. We f irmly believe this is the time for us to capitalize on opportunities to lead, while optimizing and streamlining our business to accelerate cooperative economic growth.

In 2024, we steered VICTO National not only through training and education, consultancy, and audit but also through financial investment services. The Boards of Directors supported the federation’s ongoing efforts to become a better financial service provider. These operational enhancements are both timely and necessary, as economic growth forecasts for the year 2024 have improved significantly.

We pushed boundaries, set new records, and pioneered innovative approaches to mobilize investment and internal capital generation where it’s needed most. As a network, we pool the collective resources of member affiliates together to make a difference in serving the micro and small cooperatives and the communities we serve.

The management and staff's hard work is a testament to our commitment to career development and succession planning. We remain committed to fostering a workplace culture that inspires collaboration, empowers individuals, and cultivates the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We are pleased to report that we achieved our goal of increasing internal progression and improving the network's financial condition. Late last year, we enhanced our sustainability-linked financing structure to reflect the significant progress we have made over the year in advancing our financing strategy, setting ambitious targets, and broadening our scope of impact. We are grateful to all our investors for their support and commitment to our long-term strategic vision.