WOCCU addresses UN group to strengthen credit unions’ financial inclusion role

World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Senior Vice President of International Advocacy Andrew Price on May 31 outlined the various ways credit unions play a key role in growing financial inclusion for rural and underserved communities as part of a three-day United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UN DESA) Expert Group Meeting entitled “The Role of Cooperatives in Economic and Social Development: Supporting Cooperatives as Sustainable and Successful Enterprises.”

Price also spoke about the ways credit unions provide financing for small and grassroots cooperatives in an effort to help UN DESA support the role of cooperatives in economic and social development by informing the upcoming UN Secretary General Resolution on cooperatives.

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