The Miss Cooperative Beauty Pageant is the brain child and idea of the Cooperative Support Services developed for Nigerian Youth Cooperative Network (NYCN-COOP) as part of their initiatives in line with the ICA Youth Network and the ICA Gender Committee objectives to promote cooperatives among young people especially the female folks responding to gender issues in cooperatives worldwide. Nigerian
Youth Cooperative Network (NYCN-COOP) is braving a new meaning to beauty pageants by bringing to light the conscious effort of promoting cooperatives and creating more awareness about it. Because many young people admire and aspire to be a beauty queen, NYCN-COOP believed beauty queens would be a good and effective advocate of worthy cause such as the Cooperative Decade – the ICA “ VISION 2020” Campaign. To give life to this mission, Miss Cooperative Beauty Pageant Society in collaboration with NYCN-COOP wishes to organize and launch in this 2014 the MISS CO-OPERATIVE Beauty Pageant, a beauty event whose reason is to have its candidates and winners actively promote and get involved in the preservation of our cooperative heritage and ensure the aims of the Cooperative Decade is achieved most especially in this side of the globe. The Miss Co-operative Beauty Pageant will focus more on young people especially the female folks who do not know about the Cooperative Identity and the Movement at large due to lack of forum or platform for information, communication and interaction about cooperatives and the movement at large in a fun-filled youthful atmosphere. Apart from a strong emphasis on cooperative promotion & awareness programs, MISS CO-OPERATIVE BEAUTY PAGEANT also aims to showcase and promote various cooperative school and tourist destinations. Every year, delegates from Nigeria and all over the world compete on beauty and knowledge of cooperative issues. Miss Co-operative - Nigeria is a pageant to select an Ambassador in Nigeria to promote cooperative principles, values and the model as a preferred business enterprise by the end of this decade. This event will help create more awareness about, and promote Cooperative Decade – the ICA “VISION 2020” Campaign. The Co-operative Decade (2011-2020) is a blueprint to build on the achievements of the International Year of Co-operatives (2011-2012)
It marks the beginning of a worldwide campaign to take the co-operative way of doing business to a new level. By 2020, the aim is for the co-operative form of business to become:
The fastest growing form of enterprise. The model preferred by people. The acknowledged leader in economic, social and environmental sustainability. Cooperative Support Services Limited is an independent and autonomous cooperative organization established and officially registered in 2010 to carter for the huge gap in cooperative promotion, development and sustainability in Nigeria. It is a Value Based Service Cooperative Multipurpose Society. The members, also known as consultants are professionals in diverse areas/sectors of the economy with a sole aim of providing support services for cooperative organization. CoopSupport created the Miss Co-operative Beauty Pageant for Nigerian Youth Cooperative Network (NYCN-COOP) as part of its Youth Empowerment through Cooperative Initiative (YEtCI) and the Miss Co-operative Beauty Pageant Society who owns the copyright of the Miss Co-operative Beauty Pageantry the sole organizers of the pageantry globally .
