Tino became a cooperator and also a GAD advocate in 1995. Tino was among the young GAD advocates earlier mentored by the Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF); National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO); and Northern Luzon Federation of Cooperatives and Development Center (NORLUCEDEC). Working in the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA)-Dagupan City, he is one of the first CDA personnel to have completed levels 1 and 2 of the "Trainers' Training on Gender in Cooperatives” conducted by GERC Inc. Thus Tino is a GAD trainer for co-ops and can assist co-ops assess the progress of their GAD mainstreaming using the “GAD Assessment Tool” for co-ops. He is also an expert on co-op management and co-op regulations.

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