Introduction
The Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions (ACCU) is a regional member based organization of credit unions and cooperatives in Asia. Since its birth on 28 April  1971 to date, ACCU serves more than 16,000 credit unions with 20.5 million individual members in 26 countries in the region along with 17 affiliates promoting credit unionism in Asia.
Membership to ACCU is open to national credit union leagues/federations or other national cooperative financial or similar organizations that follow international credit union operating principles and with membership of at least 20,000 individuals or one percent of the population of the country where the organization operates.

Objective
ACCU's goal is to make credit unions more relevant community-based financial institutions. ACCU works in partnership with its members to strengthen and promote credit unions as effective instruments of socio-economic development of the people.

Organisational structure
The General Meeting is the highest policy-making forum of the organization. It is convened by ACCU annually, with delegates representing each member credit union league or federation. The General Meeting elects five delegates to serve as the Board of Directors. Within the elected Board, they choose the President, two Vice Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer. The Board meets twice a year. A team of professional staff provides technical services and support to members. Specialised groups, such as the CEOs Advisory Committee, Task Force on Gender and Development, Future Leaders Task Force, and the Human Resource Development Committee meet in conjunction with the General Meeting to give advice on ACCU overall policy and programs and to review impacts of ACCU activities.

Profiling
ACCU scores relatively well in all 6 organisational areas (leading indicators). The organisation is as such in balance. Accountability and paricipation are very strong performance areas, a typical characteristic for the credit & savings movement. In the field of representation and gender some room for improvement is stil present. Agritera will in it’s supporting role towards ACCU focus on realising improvement in mentioned areas.