Develop and conduct management and training programs that will provide members of cooperatives with the entrepreneurial capabilities, managerial expertise, and technical skills required for efficient operation of then.’ cooperatives and inculcate in them the true spirit of cooperativism and provide, when necessary, technical and professional assistance to ensure the viability and growth of cooperatives with special concern for agrarian reform, agriculture, fishery and the economically depressed sectors;

Coordinate with the provincial, city, or municipal cooperative offices the adoption and implementation of national plans, programs and policies on cooperative development, and to establish partnership in the promotion, organization, and development of cooperatives within the jurisdiction of the LGUs;

Establish the formation and organization of cooperative development councils in the national, regional, provincial, city and municipal levels in order to provide the cooperative movement a system for policy consultation and program coordination in accordance with the guidelines to be prescribed by the Authority;