ICA-AP and NCDC-LINAC Collaboration

Shri. Amit Shah, the Honorable Minister of Cooperation in the Government of India, during his speech at the National Conclave on Cooperatives held in New Delhi on 25 September 2021, encouraged the International Cooperative Alliance to collaborate with an Indian institution to establish a knowledge exchange platform to document and disseminate the best practices and successful models of cooperatives from around the world.

LINAC, under the NCDC, was identified as the Indian nodal agency to collaborate with ICA-AP to create this platform. In January 2022, ICA-AP regional office signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NCDC-LINAC for technical collaboration. The MoU aims to build a mutually beneficial relationship between LINAC and ICA-AP for technical collaboration so that both organizations can learn from each other, assimilate new knowledge, and advance research, study, documentation, and training in the cooperative sector.

During the signing-off ceremony, Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Yadav, President ICA-AP, and Mr. Dileep Sanghani, President NCUI, jointly released a policy recommendation handbook called "SAHAKAR PRAGYA Good Practices for Cooperatives." This handbook was based on a brainstorming session held in November 2021.