National Cooperative Federation of Nepal (NCFN)

Materials compiled from Sino-foreign exchange visits describe Nepal's cooperative movement as beginning around 1956, with early cooperatives linked to disaster resettlement and savings and credit services; following the revision of the Cooperatives Act in 1992, cooperatives of all types and levels developed rapidly. The materials note that at the time Nepal had approximately 11,454 cooperatives of various kinds with about 1.19 million members, with savings and credit cooperatives, multipurpose cooperatives, dairy cooperatives and agricultural cooperatives accounting for a high proportion among primary cooperatives. The National Cooperative Federation undertakes tasks including promoting the dissemination of cooperative principles, training and education, capacity-building, project support, and conveying cooperatives' concerns to government, and has used development plans to advance the economic and social role of cooperatives among agriculture, small enterprises and the general public.

Note: this section is compiled mainly from materials gathered during exchange visits between Chinese and international cooperative organisations, and does not represent an official position. Because it draws on first-hand exchanges and observed institutional practice, it is offered as contextual reference material.