The Good Cooperative Government

From August 21 to 23 of this year, I participated on behalf of my Savings and Credit Cooperative Santa Rosa de Lima, of a quite good academic event, organized by CIDERURAL (Central of Cooperatives of Rural Development), DGRV (German Confederation of Cooperatives ) and the Ministry of Production (Perú).

The speaker was Carlos Fiore, a very cool Paraguayan, who in addition to being an expert on the subject, always put as a framework the explanations given, the ethical issue; that has a lot to do with the way people move, act, in short, LIVE; Do they live with a sense of ethics, with spirituality, trying to collaborate with the one next to them, or trying to hinder the processes? That kind of reflections were present throughout the event, and in my opinion is what we need most when we talk about corruption .

The event emphasized a lot in the topics such as: corruption of officials and partners, conflicts of interest, risk management, governability, and the ethical issue was worked from the beginning; and I confirmed what I have always thought: that Ethics is transversal and is present in all our actions, in our daily work, in our life, and it is the way we act before the problems and that it is not easy to maintain our firm principles, but it is the only option if we want to build sustainable policies in the long term.

I see lately that through the Peruvian State, and with multiple leaderships, we are advancing a few but at a firm pace for the strengthening of the Peruvian Cooperative System, and this is a collective construction that will bear fruit in the medium and long term.