Institutional

Capacity building and improvement for cooperatives

The National Cooperative Learning Service (Sescoop) is part of the National Cooperative System. The entity was created by Provisional Measure Nº 1.715, of September 3, 1998, and its subsequent versions, regulated by Decree No 3017, of 6 April, 1999.

Its objectives are:

- To organize, administer, and conduct professional training and education, the social improvement of cooperative members and their families, and to supervise cooperatives throughout the country;

- To carry out the monitoring, auditing and control of cooperatives;

- To support employing cooperatives in the preparation and execution of training programs, in a methodical and ongoing manner;

- To establish and disseminate methodologies which are adequate for the professional development and social promotion of cooperative employees, managers, members and their respective families;

- To coordinate, supervise and carry out cooperative management and professional training programs and projects for employees, members and their families;

- To work in collaboration with the public sector regarding issues related to cooperative professional training and management and other related activities;

- To divulge the doctrine and philosophy of cooperatives as a comprehensive form of human development;

- To develop and conduct studies and research projects on human development, its monitoring and social promotion, according to the interests of cooperatives and their members.