Saturday, January 9, 2016

The First Filipina to receive the Joe Biden Award as Development Educator for Asia in 2014



The First Filipina to receive the Joe Biden Award as Development Educator for Asia in 2014 awarded in Central London, England ICULD & Education Foundation, Great Britain & UK
ROBERTA CORDOVA VERANO of Banawa, Cebu City, Philippines was born on August 7, 1952 presently she is connected with Cebu Vendors Credit Cooperative as Coop Management Consultant. She is a graduate Central Luzon State University Major in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Marketing/Statistics as her minor course. Took up her Post graduate Studies at the University of the Philippines, Los BaƱos, Laguna and Asian Institute of Management (off Campus)
Her immersion into the Coop Movement runs for more than a decade starting in the year 2000. Among the Coop local and international representations are Cebu Vendors Credit Cooperative as Coop Management Consultant, Sugbuanon Rural Bank (SRBI) as HR Consultant, World Council for Credit Unions Afghanistan as Technical Advisor/Coop Consultant Regional Manager - Eastern Region , Cebu Newspaper Workers Foundation, Inc. -Center Manager, Cebu News Workers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (cooperative among media practitioners/employees)-Consultant / Gen. Manager , Life Underwriters Association Phil (Cebu Chapter ) -Office Manager , St. Vincent General Hospital ( Managed by CUDI) - Hospital Administrator(seconded By Couples for Christ) and Coops for Christ – Cebu (under the umbrella of Couples for Christ) Managing Director
Her various local and international exposures indeed made her among the best Coop Leaders thus she was awarded with various training grants and International Distinction
Development Educators’ European Union Course (Training), Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, England DE-EU Foundation Liverpool, Englad , UK August 17-21, 2013
International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) General Assembly and Convention Cancun, United States of Mexico Nov. 14-18, 2011
International Tour of various Credit Unions of Mid-western USA Wisconsin and Illinois, USA Nov. 20-29, 2011
She Awarded the International Distinction as International – Credit Union Devt. Educator World Council for Credit Unions – Glassgow , ScotlandJuly , 2011 Credit Union Devt. Educators Training, (CUDE ) course NCUF – CUDE Bainbridge, WA , USA Aug. 9-17, 2010
Basic Cooperative Governance Seminar WOCCU-Jalalabad City, Afghanistan May, 2009
Graduated Philippine Development Education Course ( PhDE) VICTO - and NCUF – Development Education (CUDE) Wisconsin USA CY 2006
Sophomore batch VICTO –National Philippine Development Education Course ( PhDE) – Mentored for 3 batches VICTO - and (CUDE) Wisconsin USA CY 2008, 2010 & 2011 classes
Exposure on Cooperatives & Planning Workshop ( as Audit Chair of PCF) VCF – NCUF of Singapore March 2007
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