COSROPIN is the acronym for Coalition of Societies for the Rights and of Older Persons in Nigeria. The Nigerian umbrella organisation and the voice of Older Persons in Nigeria. It is a non-political, non-partisan, not-for-profit made up of Associations; Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in ageing, Pension Unions, Retired Civil Servants such as Association of Retired Federal Senior Public Officers of Nigeria (ARFESPON), Retired Army, Navy, Airforce (RANAO), Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria (ARPON) and Graceful Ageing Fellowship (GRAF) for healthy Ageing and all groups working with or affiliated with Ageing Issues in Nigeria, with the Mission to provide a platform for the entrenchment and sustenance of the wellbeing, welfare and dignity of Older Persons and the Vision to awaken the consciousness of Nigeria, towards promoting and ensuring the wellbeing, welfare and dignity of Older Persons among other things.

COSROPIN was formed in 2016 in order to have a strong national platform for the entrenchment and sustenance of the Rights, Well-being and dignity of the older citizens in Nigeria. This is borne out of the realisation that organisations and groups working on their own cannot achieve holistic greater effectiveness needed, particularly in meeting the goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other human rights issues as they pertain to healthy ageing.

COSROPIN is an umbrella body whose membership is open to all duly registered Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs), Community-Based Organisations (CBOs), Retirement Groups and Pension Unions working on, connected to, or affiliated with issues concerning Older Persons in Nigeria.

COSROPIN is a nationwide movement bringing together a broad spectrum of corporate organisations with varied backgrounds sharing common interest, concern, commitment, ideal and passion to the work of improving the care and welfare of older persons in Nigeria. Membership assures being part of this dynamic and patriotic movement with the desire to elevate the care of the older persons throughout Nigeria

COSPORIN, also, serves as the vehicle and rallying point synergising local, national and international efforts, toward accomplishing the NINE GOALS critical to healthy ageing as contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals that Nigeria is expected to achieve by 2030. To be a member, therefore, is to share in value-adding knowledge, skills, experiences and best practices that will enable your organisation to have a bigger voice and bigger impact in your area of work and influence.

COSROPIN by virtue of its global and continental membership of Ageing Institutions offers international experience and exposure that helps and supports networking of efforts and participation in global development agenda.

COSROPIN provides opportunity and training to member-organisations on leadership, team-and-organisational-capacity-building, fundraising, proposal writing, project development, execution, monitoring and evaluation.

COSROPIN nurtures and nourishes family-member organisations through mentoring and building of effective networks that allow every member to benefit in ways that create a higher level of impact in whatever area or theme of the care of the Elderly that the organisation is in or focusing on.

COSROPIN offers a bigger voice for you as an advocate of the rights of the Nigerian Elderly to be heard; a stronger platform to engage government; an avenue of making duty-bearers to the Elderly to be more committed; and an institutional mechanism to leverage the performance of your watchdog role as civil society organisation desirous of holding government, businesses, associations and even individuals in your society accountable on issues and matters concerning the Elderly.

COSROPIN is a national organisation with the intention of permeating every local government and state in Nigeria. The organisation currently follows the three-tier structure of the country – state, zonal and federal. The state branches coordinate activities at the state level; the zones supervise activities at the six geo-political areas into which the country is divided while the national headquarters at Abuja serves as the pivot/headquarters of the organisation.