Description of the Programs and Services of NSCC

1. Programs & Services
Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives

2. • Member Primary Cooperatives are
given loan assistance to be used for
their capital build – up. NSCC gives low
interest rate on this program to help
the member cooperatives enhance
their programs and services and to
serve best the needs of their members.
• NSCC established tie-ups with different
funding institutions and networks to
look for funds that can be utilized as
financial assistance to primary
cooperatives. The fund being
accumulated is extended to these
cooperatives anytime they need it.
COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE
LENDING PROGRAM

3. SOCIAL CREDIT PROGRAM
• NSCC provides financial loan assistance to micro,
small, medium and large entrepreneurs. The aim
of the program is to increase employment
opportunities thru encouraging the people to
venture into entrepreneurship. This program
makes NSCC a catalyst of the government in
decreasing poverty and unemployment within
communities. NSCC provides loan assistance that
is accessible, rates affordable and services always
available anytime members need it. With the NSCC
Social Credit program every entrepreneur even
those living in the grassroots are always given a
chance to improve their livelihood thru entrusting
them with an amount which they can use for their
business.
• Other components of the program includes
savings mobilization, livelihood trainings,
promotion and marketing of their products and
services, social gathering during Christmas, and
opportunity to network with other members.

4. • Local Government Units do provide direct
financial assistance to individuals,
associations and cooperatives with the aim to
help alleviate economic condition within their
jurisdiction. Some people mistaken this
assistance as dole out, because LGUs cannot
regularly monitor the return of the money to
the government.
• Now, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Sur,
the City Government of Vigan and the
Municipal Government of Caoayan, no longer
serve their members with dole-out assistance
because they already made a scheme that is
more effective for their livelihood programs
that will certainly reach and benefit greater
number of their constituents.
TIE-UP LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMS WITH
LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS

5. TIE-UP LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMS WITH
LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS
A. Local Government Units do provide direct
financial assistance to
These LGUs have NSCC to handle their
livelihood funds, knowing the fact that
NSCC is a dependable and capable
organization to manage said projects.
• With the tie-up programs, the poor are
the priority beneficiaries. They are given
financial assistance with minimal rate of
interest and utilize this to start a business
or improve their existing livelihood.
NSCC have witnessed that even the poor
people can pay their obligations and can
earn savings while having their credit line.
The program also is teaching them the
value of credit discipline.

6. B. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF ILOCOS SUR
•The Provincial Government of Ilocos Sur entrusted
Livelihood Funds to NSCC in year 1999 under the
leadership of Hon. Deogracias Victor “DV” B. Savellano,
the Governor at that time. The financial assistance
extended are intended for the following programs:
To boost the production of Agricultural products in
Ilocos Sur. It caters financial loan assistance to
farmers.
•LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM FOR
MICROENTREPRENEURS
•LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM FOR COOPERATIVES
•COW DISPERSAL FOR COOPERATIVES
This program has been chosen as finalist for Best
LGU-NGO Partnership for 2003 and 2006.

7. • The City Government of Vigan under the
leadership of Hon. Mayor Eva Marie S. Medina
also aims to eradicate unemployment and
empower the Bigueños thru the creation of the
Vigan City Livelihood Program. It started a tie-
up with the Zero-Interest Pottery Project. It
later on increased the program into the
following:
– Livelihood Program for micro entrepreneurs
– Pottery Project
– One – Town One Product Program
– Livelihood Program for Farmers
– Vigan Based Coop Lending Program
The tie-up program have been awarded as
Best LGU-NGO partnership award this
February 22, 2012 by the Regional
Development Council of Region 1. Said
program also made Vigan City won the National
Gawad Pamana ng Lahi for City Category
C. TIE-UP LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMS WITH
CITY GOVERNMENT OF VIGAN

8. D. TIE-UP PROGRAM WITH THE MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT OF CAOAYAN
• The Municipal Government of Caoayan thru the leadership of
Hon. Mayor Germelina S. Goulart entrusted NSCC with a livelihood
program to handle for the benefit of Caoayanos engaged in farming,
fishing and One Barangay One Product (OBOP). The partnership is
supporting the following projects:
- LIVELIHOOD ASSISTANCE FOR OTOP PROJECTS
– LIVELIHOOD ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS
– LIVELIHOOD ASSISTANCE FOR FISHERFOLKS

9. AGRICULTURE LOANS
• NSCC also offers various forms of agricultural
loans to help farmers finance their farm inputs
and improve their production.

10. AFLATOUN CHILD SAVINGS PROGRAM
• The Aflatoun Child Savings Program
was introduced to NSCC by the
National Confederation of
Cooperatives (NATCCO). This
program encourages the value of
thrift as well as giving trainings to
school children on financial
education.
• Aflatoun program is being
implemented in 3 Municipalities of
Ilocos Sur, in Caaoayan, Cervantes
and Cabugao.

11. • NSCC being an accredited training provider by the
Cooperative Development Authority is actively conducting
different training services to primary cooperatives,
associate members and NSCC employees.
• The priority training courses being extended are those that
are included in the 14 mandatory trainings of the
Cooperative Development Authority. NSCC offers said
training to the cooperatives with an affordable and
reasonable registration fees.
• It has established a tie-up with the Social Enterprise
Development Partnership Inc or SEDPI and Ateneo De
Manila University, making NSCC as one of its training hubs
in the country. SEDPI is one of the most sought of training
provider for microfinance in the country.
CAPABILITY BUILDING PROGRAMS/
TRAININGS

12. FARMERS ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM
• The Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives has
opened opportunities of networking and marketing
with the farmers of Vigan City, Sinait and Caoayan,
Ilocos Sur thru the Farmers Entrepreneurship
Program. There are 75 farmers who are being
benefited from this program.
• NSCC has been tapped by the National Livelihood
Development Corporation as the lead institution to
handle such program. It is closely coordinating
with the Local Government Units of Vigan City,
Caoayan, and Sinait and the University of Northern
Philippines as the academe partner. Other
institutions actively supporting this program are
the Catholic Relief Services and the Jollibee Foods
Corporation.
• The program components include market analysis,
negotiation training, Farmer Field School, micro
lending, post-harvest processing, and new storage
and delivery practices. A successful
implementation of the program shall bring greater
chances for the farmers to supply their products to
the Jollibee Foods Corporation and other higher
level domestic markets.

13. • The Department of Agrarian Reform in partnership
with Japan International has recently selected Nueva
Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives to become its
partner in the implementation of the Agrarian Reform
Infrastructure Support Project III (ARISP III) under the
Federation Development Component.
• Under the ARISP Project III, the following are the
agreed projects to be undertaken:
• Gojo Mutual Assistance Program for ARC Cooperatives
• Collective Buying and Selling
• NSCC Publication
• Agrarian Information Marketing Center (AIM-C) Facility
AGRARIAN REFORM
INFRASTRUCTURE
SUPPORT PROJECT III (ARISP III)

14. NSCC PLAZA
• The Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives
(NSCC) Plaza, was built as a training center and
business center for cooperatives and all NSCC
members. The aim of this is to offer a bigger and
more comfortable venue for cooperative trainings,
forums, gatherings and all other activities, likewise
give also all members a chance to gather in a place
that they will feel relaxed and comfortable. NSCC
sees to it that every member will feel that they own
the property and it is then something that they can
be proud of.
• Aside from serving the needs of the members, NSCC
Plaza is also an income generating project because it
offers a variety of hotel services like cozy
accommodation, convenient venue for seminars,
trainings, meetings, weddings and other occasions
and it also accepts catering services.
• The first floor is being rented as a commercial center
by various business establishments, infusing monthly
revenues to the cooperative.
• The NSCC Plaza is now an accredited Hotel by the
Department of Tourism.

15. OTHER SERVICES
1. ADVOCATES AND PROMOTES GENDER EQUALITY
• KAPATIRAN FOUNDATION TIE-UP
• NSCC was chosen by the Stichting Kapatiran Foundation of
Netherlands to monitor the projects of their beneficiaries at
Bacarra, Ilocos Norte as well as to provide them with trainings and
seminars
2. AUTHORIZED COLLECTING AGENT OF PHILHEALTH KASAPI
PROGRAM
3. Services of Philhealth reaches all members of NSCC thru the
PHILHEALTH KaSAPI Program
4. DEALER OF GLOBE AUTOLOAD
5. AUTHORIZED MONEY TRANSFER SERVICE